Busy Happy
29 November 2007Busy busy busy or happy happy happy. I’m not sure which describes why I haven’t written a blog post for so long. Certainly I’m guessing a bit of both. The last year was probably one of the more stressful in my young life, and as a result I was constantly trying to quiet the voices in my head. Relief was found through talking and writing. Now that we’ve decided not to move, and I’ve moved on to a new job things have settled back into a routine. We’re no longer living with constant uncertainty. It feels good. No, it feels REALLY good.
I left my last job on September 28th after 7.5 years. It was time and I have no regrets. Next I embarked on two very fun vacations. Drew and I spent 5 days down in LA where we proceeded to ride almost every ride at Disneyland and California Adventure. The rides we missed we not from lack of effort. That was followed up a week later by a trip up to Eastern Washington to see my mom. I hadn’t been up there since our wedding reception, and I forgot how beautiful it was. And, as always, I remembered how much I really do miss my mom. We had a great time. It was a special treat to have so much time with just her and I.
October 15th I started my new job and it’s been going really well. I couldn’t be much happier with it. They are a great company, they treat me well, and there is more free food floating around then at Costco on a Sunday morning. The only downside is the commute. We’re talking about 1:40 each way - one hour of which is spent on the ferry. The ferry ride is nice. I take my portable DVD player and catch up on DVDs. I’ve already re-watched all three seasons of the Office, Season 1 of the Jeff Foxworthy Show, Miss Potter (movie), and now I’m working my way through Season 1 of Veronica Mars (which is an EXCELLENT show - who knew…). My favorite part of the day is the walk from the ferry building to my office. It’s a brisk 15 walk down Market Street in San Francisco. I feel like I’m part of something ‘bigger’ walking among the masses through the cool crisp air. It makes for a long day, but for now it’s fine. I love what I do, and where I’m doing it.
We’re in the middle of extracting all of our belongings from storage. It’s been a slow process. It’s difficult to unpack all the boxes of stuff that was never meant to be unpacked in California. It’s a constant reminder of what could have been. We’re taking it slow. I don’t have the energy to deal with all of it at once.
We’ve done some ‘upgrades’ around the house as a consolation prize for not moving. We bought a few flat screen TVs, a new couch, kitchen table set and side table. We also painted the house because if I was going to stay another 3-5+ years I didn’t want to live in a blue house anymore. We got our shower glass replaced because it was etched with years of hard water stains. It looked dirty no matter how much elbow grease went into cleaning it. And we’re going to try to buy some more decorative items and put up pictures to try to make the place more homey. It’s a work in progress.
We drove out to Las Vegas with Alex for Thanksgiving. It went really well. He slept most of the time in the car, and thankfully he was able to fit through their small dog door. It got so much colder there then I would have imagined, and I don’t think I could have handled leaving him outside when we went out at night. The in-laws showed us a great time - we had some really good meals, caught a show, and went to dog park daily. Their two dogs mostly ignored Alex, and he them. It would have been nice to see all three of them “pack up” more, but overall they did just fine.
So that’s the past few months in a nutshell. I’m not constantly on edge and don’t need the outlet that a blog provides nearly as much as I used to. I do expect to continue to write, but regularity is not guaranteed.