Better week
Just before class. I have just a couple minutes to write. Lately that feels like my life - moments in between “gotta dos”. But the truth is, I am so happy to have a job, and I still love school, and I actually am committed to having a social life this year (last year I didn’t go out the ENTIRE school year - boy did that make me a dull person)! So being busy is just going to be part of my life. When you enter my kids and household into the equation… well it could make a person exhausted!
So this last weekend, had a wonderful time. Saturday we took a ride with the club up to Evergreen, and then from there through Golden Gate Canyon - a beautiful twisty scenic ride. It was a little cold, especially up in the mountains, but I dressed for it and it was in the sunshine (no rain like a couple weeks ago!). Then Sunday was the annual community BBQ to raise money for the community charity (as B likes to say - and it is so true - we do take care of our own). There were lots of folks there, people I hadn’t seen in a long time, people I didn’t expect to see, people that I love to see! And some of the riding club showed up as a sort of “cross promotion/support” thing which was really fun too.
And on top of it all just getting some down time - spending Sat evening just watching a movie, spending most of Saturday during the day with M (even if it was running all over town doing errands). S spent the entire weekend up in the mountains with a church YRUU campout - froze his you know what off - good grief it gets so cold so early here - and so the house was pretty quiet. K spent most of the weekend with her new boyfriend - even her best friend felt a bit slighted. So it was fairly quiet at the house.
And now here I am waiting for class to start. At least today at work I not only got to start working on the lab system that I installed (and apparently have quite adequately already hosed up - yes that is a technical term - ask any geek) but it looks like tomorrow I may actually get to do a little REAL work… YEAH! Doing nothing but reading documentation starts to get a little boring. It’s a good team for the most part. People work hard (they have to - the work load is insane) and they try to work together and help one another.
And I got my very first paycheck last Friday - a VERY big deal. I drove home to check the mail on Friday to see if it was there, and when I put it in my hands I started to shake. It lasted about 2 hours. It felt mostly like a sugar drop, but even after I ate it persisted. So I finally figured out that it was likely my body letting go of all the stress I had held in and held together against over the last several months. It was draining out of my body. After it finished I really felt good.
My life is in a good spot - and yep - looking at last week’s entries - well there is a reason they call ‘em mood SWINGS…
