Walking seems like a really hard thing to learn. The whole movement of it, you have to kick one leg out in front of you and shift your body weight forward, getting your second leg ready and heaving it forward... falling and catching yourself in a smooth motion, propelling yourself from one place to the next. Next you have to train yourself to anticipate cracks in the sidewalk, rough edges on tables, animals that will stop moving directly under the path of your foot. One day you will be eating pizza and listening to your headphones, stopping at the crosswalk to barely look before dashing across between the moving cars.
My life is kind of like learning to walk right now. The deployment should be winding down, but suddenly it feels like it's barely halfway over. The job is almost entirely amazing, except that working seems to grind down my patience, leaving me fuming. Were there this many jerks in the world before I had a job? It didn't feel like it. These are the big two, my right leg and my left leg.
I sometimes feel sorry for babies, because they have so much work and painful growing to accomplish before they can enjoy much of the happiness offered by this world. Right now I feel like I have a long way to go myself.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
A few of my least favorite things
After finishing my 7 day work week last week on Sunday night at 8 pm, with 92 hours on my paystub, I was feeling pretty darn pleased with myself. On Monday I woke up (too early) for a dentists appointment, but treated myself to some special groceries including some amazing cheese (epoisse) and wine (Layer Cake). I then spent the afternoon napping before attending a reception for new attorneys here (I'm already admitted in my home state). Not feeling content to sit at home with my trophies, I then took myself out for some good old fashioned karaoke.
Fast forwarding through the next day (which sometimes needs to happen after a good night of karaoke), I found out that the company wanted to hire me back for another project... which started today! So yes, I am re-hired and life is feeling pretty good.
Well, except that my bike got stolen, and Adam just let me know his deployment would probably be a month longer than we thought. Not to trivialize anything, but my thai take-out place overcharged me by $20 last night too. So I'm feeing kind of grumpy overall. I tried to watch a nature documentary to cheer up, but couldn't take the killer whales eating the cute sea lions, or the sea gulls swooping to pick up the tiny, newborn sea turtles. Apparently life stinks and everyone takes whatever they can get away with, including eating up helpless, adorable baby creatures!
Things happen in threes, they say. I suppose I had a karmic debt after landing that job last week, which has now seemingly broken the employment barrier I had been facing. I'm hoping and praying that maybe life and I have reestablished the balance of nature, and soon we'll be on a slightly more even keel. For now, I'm just not going to watch any more Blue Planet.
Fast forwarding through the next day (which sometimes needs to happen after a good night of karaoke), I found out that the company wanted to hire me back for another project... which started today! So yes, I am re-hired and life is feeling pretty good.
Well, except that my bike got stolen, and Adam just let me know his deployment would probably be a month longer than we thought. Not to trivialize anything, but my thai take-out place overcharged me by $20 last night too. So I'm feeing kind of grumpy overall. I tried to watch a nature documentary to cheer up, but couldn't take the killer whales eating the cute sea lions, or the sea gulls swooping to pick up the tiny, newborn sea turtles. Apparently life stinks and everyone takes whatever they can get away with, including eating up helpless, adorable baby creatures!
Things happen in threes, they say. I suppose I had a karmic debt after landing that job last week, which has now seemingly broken the employment barrier I had been facing. I'm hoping and praying that maybe life and I have reestablished the balance of nature, and soon we'll be on a slightly more even keel. For now, I'm just not going to watch any more Blue Planet.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Whew!
The new job... whew! I have to say, they told me to expect long hours. I did not expect 8 am to 10 pm. Add in the commute, I'm gone 15 and a half hours per day! These poor dogs, I have the dog walker coming twice per day. Truthfully, they don't seem to mind. I'm glad they have each other to hang out with.
It's amazing, in the 40 minutes I've been at home browsing the internet I've hit all my favorite sites and read all the articles I care to read... so how was I spending all that time in the house? I can tell it wasn't spent cleaning it!
It feels great to be out, earning a pay check. Can't wait to see that! I have an invitation to join my cousin in Florida afterwards... think I might have to take advantage of that offer. Right now I think I will go take advantage of the horizontal opportunities presented in the domicilliary dimension.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Ch-ch-changes
No, I'm not a stutterer. {I did enjoy The King's Speech quite a bit. I also dated a stutterer in college.} No, I'm referencing an old David Bowie song. It's a bad habit of mine to randomly break into song when a phrase pops into my head that triggers some musical reaction in my brain. Today's theme is CHANGES.
First, Benji is gone from the house, as you may have noticed I am no longer ranting about him. Yes, I wish I could have done more. But it was not healthy for either of us, and ultimately I didn't think I could do any more than I did. It's sad, I hate to think of him being put down. But many, many dogs are put down every year that don't have the behavioral problems that he did.
Well, we did take in my parents dog Shadow while they went on vacation. Max and Shadow are really good friends, and other than having to treat the eye infection she came down with, it's been just a pleasure to have the company for Max.
My new job starts tomorrow, which is why I should keep this post short and get some sleep. I'm excited and nervous, so keep your fingers crossed. I really hope this job works out, it could lead to some other well-paid and flexible employment in the future.
My brother sent me flowers last week, to congratulate me on this new job, and then Adam sent flowers on Saturday... so my house is abloom with tulips and other spring delicacies. I just hope the dogs don't nibble on them while I'm away.
No great insights this week into deployment or other life events, just hoping April flies by in work so I can have a little money in the bank for when Adam gets back.
First, Benji is gone from the house, as you may have noticed I am no longer ranting about him. Yes, I wish I could have done more. But it was not healthy for either of us, and ultimately I didn't think I could do any more than I did. It's sad, I hate to think of him being put down. But many, many dogs are put down every year that don't have the behavioral problems that he did.
Well, we did take in my parents dog Shadow while they went on vacation. Max and Shadow are really good friends, and other than having to treat the eye infection she came down with, it's been just a pleasure to have the company for Max.
My new job starts tomorrow, which is why I should keep this post short and get some sleep. I'm excited and nervous, so keep your fingers crossed. I really hope this job works out, it could lead to some other well-paid and flexible employment in the future.
My brother sent me flowers last week, to congratulate me on this new job, and then Adam sent flowers on Saturday... so my house is abloom with tulips and other spring delicacies. I just hope the dogs don't nibble on them while I'm away.
No great insights this week into deployment or other life events, just hoping April flies by in work so I can have a little money in the bank for when Adam gets back.
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