- Well, it’s definitely weird around town. My side is totally fine but when I got to the capitol complex yesterday, trees are everywhere! Obviously the city chopped them up and pushed them off roads but there’s so much debris. We don’t get tornadoes in town…ever. So that’s why it seems so odd. We do hurricanes here but not really the twisters.
- I’m still anxiously awaiting some news about any one of these jobs. The one I applied to with the banking institution had to rewrite the job description so then they’ll reinterview. So there’s that one, the one I really would like, the proposal coordinator remote position, then the one I have an interview for tomorrow. In all reality, that’s probably the one I have the best shot at, since it is also editing legislation. I will take it if offered, if only to move on from here. I have to see the opportunities put in front of me.
- I kind of hope if that job is offered, I can do some kind of hybrid thing. The person I know who got a job there recently has a flexible schedule. I would love that!
- I’ve been feeling rather philosophical about this whole thing and I keep thinking about this meme I sent my son the other day that said, “Stop asking Why is this happening? and start asking What am I supposed to learn from this?” And I think I am supposed to learn that I cannot do these long hours here. I thought I could do all that, still go home and be an effective mom and wife but I was so stretched thin that every aspect of my life was minimized. I wasn’t any good at any of them. So I needed to learn that lesson and see that I need to focus on balance a lot more.
- And you know what else I realized? This job, while only a stepping stone, had a lot more professionalism to it. The admin job at FSU was very relaxed. Teaching is relaxed. This was a lot more, dare I say, adult. So maybe this was what I needed to take away to move forward into the next phase of my life. The next season, if you will.
- OK the above were written Monday morning but around 11, Ash told me Isaac said school was shut down and I was like, yeah, ok buddy! But then about 10 minutes later we got an email saying that they would close at 1 due to more severe weather. So Ash got Isaac and I picked up Dakota. We hit the store, I made spaghetti, and we watched The Great Escape and worked on puzzles! Weather was indeed bad but it did not continue today, but of course, they canceled school.
- So yeah, I’m home with them today because they closed our office too. It was nice, though, to do stuff around here: catching up on cleaning, work in storage to tidy up, transfer my mead to smaller containers, take a kid to get a bathing suit, and I hit Costco. All in all, a great couple of days, even with my dire job situation still hanging in the balance. I am happy.
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I’ve kind of adopted a similar philosophy – about looking for lessons. Easier said than done sometimes, though.
Sounds like a nice “snow day”!