By the lure of yard sales!!
Everyone had plans for the morning. Thomas had to work, Eler Beth had plans with friends and so did Andrew. So I was going to have a glorious morning to do some things I needed peace and quiet to do. Well, I got Andrew off to his friends, but Eler Beth's plans got postponed and then who should pull into the driveway but my hubby. Some of the work they had planned to do today had been postponed because some materials they needed hadn't come in. So some time was wasted re-grouping.
Then Thomas decided he would take Eler Beth with him to check out a yard sale he'd passed on the way back home. Just as I was getting settled he called to tell me I probably didn't want to miss this yard sale! So he came back to get me and I went yard-saling for awhile. Oh well. I guess I'll do my quiet-time work later.
I can't believe I haven't journaled in two weeks! The first week I was just so busy with work and things going on at the kids' schools that I hadn't the time or the energy. This past week I've been too busy and half-way depressed about work to feel up to journaling. I just almost quit last week. I called Thomas on his lunch break and said "Talk me out of quitting! Quick!", and he said, "No, I'm not going to. You said when it wasn't fun anymore you'd quit. If you want to go ahead and quit before June 30, then do it." I said, "But I'd lose my severance!" He assured me we'd make it if I was out of a paycheck for a couple weeks and then asked if that took some pressure off me. It did!
By Friday I was feeling better about waiting until June 30. However I am sending my resume to a company that is just a couple miles from my house for a position that I really think I'd enjoy. If I got it I'd give my two weeks' notice and give up the severance because it would be worth it to be working so close to home and saving all that gas money!! Spending $200.00 or more a month on gas just to get me to work is stressing me out as much my job situation.
In the meantime I'll just grit my teeth and try to make it to June 30 without going out of my mind! And I'm not kidding myself -- I know that the bitterness of having our entire department done away with is finally getting to me. I'd suppressed it long enough I guess. Well, I shall play on the computer while I'm doing laundry, because I think we've established that that does count as working!
More later.
3 comments:
i LOVE yard sales! you can find the neatest stuff at those at dirt cheap prices. hope you found some really good deals.
good luck with your resume submission. keeping fingers crossed for you.
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I hope you get through the whole job situation and on to a great new one! - Barbara
Only goes to show, Lori, that the best laid plans can go awry. Don't tell me about that sort of thing lol. Sorry to hear that your job is going to end in 6 weeks - it's common to have your efforts NOT appreciated and just shunted down the trash shute. Glad to hear that you were able to take a leek ;-)
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