When I first started writing this blog, it was meant to be a way that I could vent frustrations and express new hopes. I had exited out of a relationship that was literally just going through the motions, 4 months before my first post. My professional life was starting to really heat up and take off, and I thought to myself, why can I not have success in both areas?? I took a leap of faith.
And here we are now.
My professional life is still on track (I say this as I a cross my fingers and look to the sky with longing) and my personal one is starting to becoming attractive again, all 6 foot 3 inches of him.
The last couple of weeks have really got me thinking, and honestly mulling over things is not what I do best. I am more of a think on her feet kinda gal, weighting options thoroughly, and quickly. Having time only means I over analyze things to the umpteenth degree.
Work: I taught 2 one day classes for private companies over the last 3 weeks...thus netting me more than double what I would bust my hide to make in 4 days. Awesome!! But now that I have a taste of it, do I really want to forge ahead and make a go of it as a private instructor? Outcome: ahhh, ummmm, dang. About that, flip. No idea.
Home: My dryer hose broke a few days ago, a quick fix, I knew that I needed aluminum tape to fix it...welder mouse said it was a blue job and that he would do it. I conceded. But I still wound up fixing it. Outcome: Pink and blue jobs cross over.
Work: I got sick on Friday last week, which resulted in a mad scramble at work for people I classify as co-workers, or who auto correct makes references to as my 'cilantros'. Long story short, my 1 sick day means I do not get paid, and I lost a class on the weekend...so 1 day turned into 3 unpaid days. Outcome: 3 unpaid days and an overwhelming feeling of awkwardness when I came into work this morning.
Home: Last night the dryer hose broke right where I allegedly fixed it. Outcome: may be some pink and some blue jobs shouldn't cross after all.
Work: On Monday's, we do a re-certification class...meaning you pick up your books a head of time, study, and come the day of the class, you walk in, show me (aka the instructor) the skills, write the test, if you pass you leave and have a great week. If you don't pass, you reschedule, and I will more than likely see you show up in one of my full two day classes later that week. As one would expect, things never go so well on Mondays. Today, my class treated me with contempt and wrote as much on their reviews. Outcome: I wish I could fail people based purely on attitude.
Home: I came home today to greet the one person I knew that would give me a hug no matter how crummy their day was, and still be happy to see me...that's right, Mr Ari. But he wasn't so happy that I was home, as much as he was to be let out of his kennel. Apparently with all the rain, the sump pump in my suite must have failed, cause he was tip toeing around in his kennel that was plumb soaked with water. Outcome: When the maintenance guy gets here within the hour, I am sooo hitting him up to fix the dryer hose as well.
Looking at everything now, I can either chalk this up to a bad case of the Monday's or that in some weird way I have obtained balance in both work and professional life. 3 disagreeable things on either end, however unfortunate, still equals balance.
Things are looking up though...work: Blue Box First Aid is now open for business and home: I have camping to look forward to with welder mouse!
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