Back Where I Started

So I've mentioned before my work saga. I had a job I really loved, but they relocated, and I had a heartbreaking decision to make, finally making the only decision that was right for my family at that time, to stay here in our little town. So I had a bout of unemployment, a secretarial job, and a staff assistant (glorified and slightly better paid secretary), and finally have worked my way back wor-wise to about where I was. But the part of the story that I haven't shared is the part about my transportation. Working at my job I loved, I had a nice little stationwagon, fairly new (and for a family who does not buy new cars, fairly new means 10 or less years old), sporty, fun, drove back and forth to my long-distance boyfriend's house just fine. Until one day it threw a rod, and just died. Luckily, I was close enough to home to get a AAA tow for only $20. And this was within 2 months before my last day at work at my job I loved. My great friend sold me an old car he had, and let me work it off doing odd jobs for him, and my dad fixed the things that had to be fixed. I'm very surprised that the old Honda lasted so long for me, over three years. But it finally died last fall. My parents were wonderful enough to loan me their mini van while they were gone, the last almost three months, and we've been saving for the next state car auction. To make a long story short (all together: too late!), we found a nice mini van for sale last weekend, my folks were back in time for dad to check it out for me, and I am now the proud owner of a 1997 Ford Windstar! So now I have a good job, and a good vehicle, and I feel like I'm finally at about the same stage I was...three and 1/2 years ago. Long, tiring trip, but I feel sooo releaved to be here!

All around the BlogBerry Bush

So I'm finally getting some web/blog things cleaned up, fixed up, put down, rearranged, etc. Here's my latest update: I've already sung my swan song on my food/recipe blog, and will soon on my TV blog. I just haven't been keeping these blogs up well, so I'm taking them off my chore list. Blogging should be enjoyable, not a chore. I love keeping up my projects blog, and this place is where I dump the rest of the thoughts, so I'll keep working on it.
My guy and I are starting a new project that will be on the web, kinda a blog, see the info here. With a new big project coming up, I wanted to clean up some of the old stuff. I still have an official personal site, but before this weekend, I hadn't really touched it in over a year. Now I'm taking photos off there, as long as I have flickr pro account, I don't need to eat up so much bandwith on the personal site. All this cleaning up and rearranging takes time, and I feel like I'm still getting the blogger beta bugs under controll as well. So lots of computing time in my future...

A thought on Thoughts

I'm already fast on my way to sleepy land, but just wanted to get something out of my head. My new job, in addition to being better suited to my abilities, and actually making me use my brain, in addition to bringing home a little bigger paycheck, has another added benifit: time to think. When you're anywhere in a reception/secretary/assistant type of job, you are often busy with busywork all day long. Answering phones alone is enough to drive some insane. My new job is so quiet. My phone rings once or twice a day, and it's usually my kids. So my brain actually can think about things. I've found it wandering off on some tangent, while I'm concentrating on the numbers in front of me. It has a good time, and figures things out. I think it's all good.