This job is taking A LOT of my time. Yesterday, other than the hour and a half that I took to make a run to the bank and grocery stop, I was at my computer from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. I have not been able to do just 8-5 for weeks. The closest I came to that was I shut down at 5:30 last Friday because I was meeting a friend for dinner (a woman from my bible study class that is school speech therapist and is also divorced). Then I worked my butt off (tho, sadly, not literally) out in the yard for 2 days.
TJ went to NYC for a week with a 'friend' of his. His fiancee and I were worried about the whole thing. This 'friend' is a guy he has 'known' for YEARS from Xbox live. They have talked to each other endlessly and shared life stories, daily life, etc. They are both wrestling geeks...WWE, NXT, etc. And there was going to be an extravaganza of wrestling shows in NYC. The trip turned out fairly well. He got to see A LOT. He enjoyed himself except he said it turned out his 'friend' has his dad's (Evil Spawn's) personality. He was happy to get home...especially since he missed his plane and had to be rebooked. He was supposed to come in at 4. I was supposed to leave for my conference at 3. I waited until he was on his new connecting flight out of Charlotte...5:30 pm.
To be fair, we got more work shoved at us Tuesday morning and I was hustling to finish it up to a good point where I could pick it up Friday morning. So, getting out of here until after he got his butt in a plane seat in Charlotte was not that much of a hardship for me. I was on my way before he got home. I got the text when he landed. I 'landed' an hour and half later.
I cannot say I liked where we had our conference. It was the length of AT LEAST 3 football fields and I had to walk 2 of them just to get ANYWHERE. It was a big damn water park resort full of people. I HATE chaos. And I froze the whole time I was there.
And the team I am on...the Family Academic Success Liaisons...eat ALL the time! Breakfast, tons of snacks, lunch, more snacks, appetizers, dinner, dessert. They were constantly passing around food. I just said, "no thanks. I ate breakfast" "no thanks, lunch is soon" "no thanks, I just ate lunch" "no thanks, I am waiting for my dinner order" "no thanks, I am full from dinner" I do not know why they don't all weigh 500 lbs.
Then I got home and worked the next day...ALL DAY.
My mother said, "so that job that you wanted and you said you loved is turning out not to be so wonderful after all."
Yes...I STILL love it. It is a lot of work right now, but I love it all the same. I am eyeing moving into a teaching position at some point (they get paid better too) but I still love my job. Just because it can be long hours, it won't always be this way,. It is the beginning of school and we are working to get these kids and their parents hooked up and ready to begin classes. After that, it is a matter of keeping them on track.
I am very thankful for my job. I am not complaining about the long hours. I am just stating facts as to how long I am working.
Brittany is having a 'time' with her job but she is like me...she is thankful for the job and it is working with kids, which is what she wanted. Not all daycare centers are like the poorly run one attached to my church. She is getting experience and she knows she can use that experience to go somewhere else someday.
I am trying to do some things around the house as I can. Tomorrow I shall try and get the paver patio area sprayed so that I can put in the pavers. I might even spray it tonight. Then I can put the pavers down in the evening. The firepit is going to be a challenge. But I can do it! LOL
I just might post pictures of my finished office and the finished patio. The patio is something Evil Spawn promised to do for many summers. But, like everything else...it never happened.
I sat here this morning thinking about my house...MY house. There is a lot to do, mostly cosmetic. And I might feel badly about calling it MY house...just because I got to keep it in the divorce. I know he is thinking it is more his than mine since it was HIS paycheck that paid for it BUT I have realized that I earned it just as well. I packed and followed him over and over. I put up with his addictions, helped pick him up when he fell, I raised the kids and took care of everything else in our lives...all he had to do was do his paying gig. I did everything else...including putting up with his verbal abuse.
Nope, I think I earned this house. And MAYBE someday there will be a nice guy in my life. I am not really ready for another relationship yet but I can visualize him. God will give me who/what I need at the right time. I am even more convinced of it since I got the job I wanted at just the absolute right time.
God is good...and I hope I will never forget that.
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