I have missed blogging. I want to apologize for the huge lapse. It wasn’t on purpose. It was simply that I was going through a very bad time. So, I guess I should recap the things that have happened to me since that last blog post. Actually, so much has happened since my last post, that there is no way I will be able to list it all. So, here are the important things:
1. I lost my job.
2. I got a new job.
3. Vaughn and I will be moving closer to Atlanta next year.
Yes, I like the succinctness of that.
So, as I said I lost my job. I was humiliated and devastated, you know all the stuff that goes along with being unemployed after having worked steadily since I was 15 years old.
After a great number of pep talks from the most awesome family in the world, I took stock of what I really wanted to do and utilized the unemployment that I earned over the years to find a new job. Now, I get to write for a living. I also get paid to use Twitter, Facebook and WordPress on a daily basis. I spend several hours of my week surfing the internet and watching YouTube videos. It’s a lot and I do mean A LOT of work, but at the end of the day I’m happy.
I’m in a healthier place and its nice to just be tired at the end of the day, rather than tired and stressed out. I no longer have anxiety-ridden dreams or feel like the other shoe is going to drop. I get to read as much as I want and call it research for work, and I get to interact with people who have just as heavy a workload but see no reason to take it out on their coworkers. Yes there are the standard office politics, but those politics aren’t quite so cloak and dagger as the ones I had gotten used to. No, these politics are right out in the open with people voicing their opinions with no censor in sight. It’s refreshing to tell you the truth.
There are really only 2 downsides to my new job so far.
1. The commute from Athens to Lawrenceville quite frankly sucks!
2. I spend so much time researching and writing at work that I don’t want to do it when I get home.
What’s great is that I feel valued again. I no longer feel like a problem that must be dealt with. I don’t walk into the building with a sense of dread, nor do I wake up and immediately start worrying about how I’m going to get through the day. Most of all, I feel like I can be myself without judgment.
All in all, I think losing my job was really the best thing that could have happened to me. Even if it did happen 3 days before my birthday.
So, that’s whats been going on with me. I’m hoping that as Vaughn and I get more settled into this whole commute thing – we commute together with his brother – I will have more time and energy to write here. And once we make the move – so not looking forward to trying to sell the house- I will have even more to write about.
I have some great ideas for what I want to do with this space and I hope that you guys don’t give up on me because of my blogging lapse.
What’s been going on with you guys?
