Yippee Skippee! A new job!

I love my friends! I happened to run into a friend I don't see often at the RVC homecoming football game last weekend and we talked about my still being unemployed. She lives next door to another RVC family, and mentioned to them that I was looking. They just took on a large batch of work from a failing company and need someone new to help, so they called me. I met with one owner and a VP on Friday and they called me Saturday morning to offer me the job. What's especially good is that I get to learn something new (which is always fun) and that they will be understanding when I need to take off for a doctor appointment for me or Dean. And, it's not too far away, just on the west side of the freeway, right here in SR. I will be starting next Monday.

So I spent yesterday doing one of the things I love to do, which is cooking all day. I made several things to freeze so I can just pop something into the oven and have it turn itself on and be ready to eat when we get home. There is something so great about coming home and having the house smell good and dinner ready to put on the table. If I get really organized in the morning, I can even have the table set for dinner before I leave. (OK, that doesn't happen very often.)

This is the last week of soccer and there are 4 games. Today we go to Point Arena, then home on Wednesday, Mendocino on Thursday, and home on Friday. That wouldn't be quite such a big deal except there is no school Thursday or Friday. It would have been fun to have a field trip to Jelly Belly (we have some friends who have never been) one of those days, but that will just have to wait. Of course, having games on two no-school days means the homework thing isn't so crazy. It's hard to do homework when you don't even get home after the game until about 9:00. It's actually even hard to talk coherently when you don't get home until then. The next sport is golf, but that doesn't start for a few months and shouldn't require so much parental driving.



Anyway, it's going to be a full week, but there is such a feeling of relief that I don't have to continue job hunting. I can actually get other things done - when I'm not on the road for soccer games, that is! And yes, I'm still returning calls and emails. I DO think of all of you; somehow it seems that I have time to call when it's way too late to call! Don't give up on me.

Free time?

Up front, I tell all of you who are waiting for me to return your phone call and/or email, that I am working on it. I know I should have free time now (since I'm still not working full time), but somehow that doesn't seem to be the case. Still searching out all possible job opportunities, and starting to think that I'm too picky. Better that than that I'm unwanted!

I organized the school carnival, which was last Friday, and now am just cleaning up/putting away/debriefing for next year. Homecoming was Saturday, so Dean went to his first high school banquet after the games. They had a 1950s theme; it was fun to see all the kids dressed up in poodle skirts and leather jackets. This Saturday is the big carnival at church, and I'll be spinning sugar into cotton candy while Dean takes the money. Allen gets to pick up trash (lucky guy).

Anyway, that's about it for the moment. Stay tuned for the next fabulous installment of my exciting life!

Did I happen to mention that I love all my family and friends? Well, I do.

Starting all over again

Hey, I'm pretty sure that was a song title in the 1970s!

So the job at the church is done as of yesterday, and now I'm starting all over again, looking for work. I know, I did keep looking for the past month while I worked at the church, but didn't spend so much time on it. Now I have to get back to the big search. I have friends who have done temporary work and loved it, loved going from place to place and meeting new people every couple of weeks. I'm not that kind of person. Not that I don't like to meet new people, but I don't like to just pick up and leave every couple of weeks. I don't leave well. (Airports are the worst, seriously.) It always makes me think I should be able to say something profound, but what I usually do is get teary. What I'd really like to do again is just settle in and make a place my home and my coworkers family. Anyway, blah, blah, blah...

It's raining a little, and I'm wondering how that will affect the weekend. Dean has a soccer game today at 4:30, and they don't really care about rain and mud unless it's pouring, but Rock of Ages is tomorrow and I can't imagine what they will do to protect all that concert equipment if it rains. We will be going to an art show tomorrow evening at a winery that belongs to one of Allen's customers, so Dean and Megan will be concert attending/hanging with Dylan and his family. Hope it all works out for everyone.

I'm just feeling dreary both inside and out. Not even chocolate will help this day!