A Likely Story!

Loooong Day

...is over.

When I take a day off from Job #1, it means a days worth of callbacks will not get done. That normally isn't a problem if I can catch up on those uncalled calls the next day I am in the office. If the next day happens to fall on a weekend, we don't get rooted on those calls until Monday. And then on Monday?

Watch out.

So. Just spent a long long day tying up lose ends that started last Friday and kept rolling in until 7p tonite local time. Also made up the 4 cumulative hours I was out this week for medical type appts. My day tomorrow will be manageable IF I stay on target and IF I focus and IF IF IF no burning-down-the-house emergencies hit.

Working Friday, Saturday, Sunday at J#2 so tonite was my last chance for work catch up until next Monday.

Grabbed a bowl of cereal and made a pleasant discovery. It has taken me 2 1/2 years to go thru one box of 100 sugar packets. When I moved here I decided to try little things to eat healthier. Like not having a sugar bowl and using sugar packets instead. Then I thought some more and remembered the movers offloaded my furniture exactly 2 1/2 years ago yesterday cause I did my first shopping trip once my truck was offloaded by the movers.  

Wow...2 1/2 years already. Time flies. And I don't want to type this next part, but I guess that Summer is 1/2 way over. Noooooo! I don't want that to be true. I need to have a lot more fun before I can say goodbye to Summer.

Anyway, first comes sleep and then comes fun.

NNSD from here and have a fun weekend!

Doin' The Happy Dance

That trip to the Mothership in FL that I was whining about last week? I'm off the hook! Don't have to go.

SWEET!!!

Decided to tell my Director of J#1 that I had a J#2. So I did. She was taken aback. Asked where I worked...told her..then told her that the training they wanted me to have onsite at the Mothership I had already experienced at J#2.

So. No more secrecy which makes me happy. No trip to hot humid steamy FL which makes me incredibly happy. And no spending $ I don't have on a trip to hot humid steamy FL. And no leaving CO.

What better reason for a happy dance?

Crickets Chirping

Man, I don't know about you, but there is NOTHING going on in Kathyland. Nope, nothing at all. Nothing exciting on the horizon. No earthshaking news. Nothing beyond fastastically wonderful that I am looking forward to. Zip. Zilch. Zero.

Yeah. Right.

I'll catch up with ya Sunday night. 

No ZZZ's For Me

 Never fell asleep last night, and now the birds are singing. Have a feeling this will be a very long day.

Happy 4th!

Keeping in mind that it's Independance Day, I have a thought I'd like to share. 

And that thought is :

Never be afraid to take the chance to be the person you were always meant to be. 7 years ago today I took probably the biggest step of my life to date...well, one of the biggest. I was scared. I was heartbroken. I was devastated. But I knew if I didn't take a chance, a leap of faith, whatever you want to call it, that I would regret it for the rest of my life. So I did. And I landed in a much better place. 

Do what you need to do to get to that place in your life. You won't regret it. Trust me.

The Last 72 Hours

Don't even know where to begin.

Let's just say it's been fun, energetic, challenging, tear-filled (in a sad/happy way), inspirational, gratifying and there's not been a lot of sleep..which is fine for now.

Back at J#1 after taking a vacay day yesterday. 

Am off from both jobs on the Fourth.

And.....that's all for now. More later.

Orange, Meet Blue

New design in da house.

Weasel Time

Trying to weasel out of having to go back to the Mothership. In FL. In August.

Wish me luck.

[Wrote the above and after reading it several times, wanted to add the following]

My extreme reticence at returning to FL is not just about the location and the oppressively hot and humid month of August. I mean, it is, but it's more than that. 

FL is where my life crashed and burned. Most of my hugest life dissapointments happened there. FL is like spinach and cilantro and heights and hurricanes and sadness and tears all rolled into one hot sweaty steamy package. Yuck!

Also?? Being there means being away from J#2. And CO. And Denver. And my life as I love it. And where I am happy. And J#2. Did I mention that?

In the whole scope of things I know this is relatively minor and I really need to keep it in perspective. And J#2 is being very gracious and understanding and all which is what they excel at.

Stiil. Keep your fingers crossed they let me do all this training I **need** to do over the phone. Cause between you and me? I've had the training already. When I joined J#2. But since J#1 does not know I have J#2, it's not like I can really tell J#1.

Gee...aren't you happy I clarified everything?

:-)

Stuff

In no particular order of importance...

So hey...what's up?  Had a super fun night last night that will be blogged about soon. But for now?  Just random thoughts that are really neither here nor there.

I used to be all 'TGIF' and woohoo for every Friday cause I wanted the weekend to be here so I could relax from Job #1. Now? I'm still all woohoo for 'TGIF', but now it's cause I'm jazzed to work 8 hrs on Sat and Sun at J#2.

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Seeing a Vertigo/Dizziness Specialist in several weeks. My dizziness has gotten worse to where freeway driving is done only when absolutely necessary. I am fine at driving surface streets morning and night...dizziness then is minimal if at all. And if the freeway is stop and go, I'm fine. But anything over 40 mph is tough and let's not even think about E470. It's also become problematic at J#2 due to the nature of what I do, but in true J#2 form, they are awesome and wonderful and kind and understanding and I just love them all to death and more cause they are that beyond fantastic. OK, gush session over.

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Sometimes I want to express opinions but I don't, thinking my friends will think I am talking about them even when I am not. So I stay silent. Maybe it's for the best.

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The more I see and experience, the more I believe we are here on purpose and what happens to us happens for a reason. And if we are analytical and aware enough, we may even figure out the 'what or why'. Or not.

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With the intent of getting back into working out, I bought a new pair of Nike's. First new pair of workout shoes since Aug 2001. And all I've done is worn them to work..as opposed to working out. Lately, I'm all 'why bother'. Why bother losing weight. Why bother working out. What's so great about being a single digit size? Does it guarantee happiness? (nope) Does it bring you extra money (nope) I guess I don't have a strong enough 'why should I'. And until I do, I probably won't.

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Paid $76 to fill up my truck today. Most I've ever spent.

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Saturday is 4 months to the day that my sister-in-law Michele passed away...or was killed. Final autopsy came back and there are enough discrepancies in the report that my brother feels his wife was killed by subpar care...which makes her death even sadder.

I've been missing Michele so much lately. Everytime I see a little bunny in the front yard I think of her. Michele loved bunnies...just loved them beyond words. She was buried with 3 stuffed bunnies...one from me, my sister Diane and my sister Kelly. My bunny was a Colorado Cottontail. I've started calling Michele's cell phone just to hear her voice. I'm so glad my brother has kept her cell active. I want her to pick up the phone and talk to me when I call, but it's just not gonna happen. Stil, it's nice to hear her voice.

Lesson Learned

While it might SOUND like a good idea, watching Dane Cook on You Tube while trying to talk to clients is, in fact, not a good idea.  Lesson learned.