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.
