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September 25, 2008 By Michele Leave a Comment

I never call, I never write…  Blah blah blah.  I KNOW.

Mainly I’m not writing because I’m trying to stay away from politics until the election is over, and in my personal life, everything is on hold until I actually leave my job, which is looking like not until my “official” leave date of November 21st.  Everything else is chugging right along.

Of note recently:  My mom is giving me the truck.  You know, the one I’ve been driving for the last 5 years?  Yeah, she’s finally just signing it over so I’m legally responsible for everything.  And for my dad…  Oy.  I just installed and connected and taught him how to use high speed dsl.  So.  Hopefully he doesn’t find my blog.  But now he can search for old cars on ebay, and his class of 1953, without having to wait forever on dial up.  Oh, and my mother can’t yell at him for not being able to use the phone, so there’s that.  Trying to explain to him the concept of data transfer over a phone line was…  comical.

And finally, one of my picks for Blog Nosh is up.  Go check it out.

Shifts

September 10, 2008 By Michele 2 Comments

I’m finding that my brain is shifting.

I’m starting to shift into home mode.

During the day, my mind drifts from work, and I think about what I’d be doing that time of day at home.

Do I know that it’ll be just as hard at home?  Yes.  Do I know that starting my business is hard?  Of course.  But that’s where my heart truly lies.

I keep thinking about my schedule for the day, and how I’m going to accomplish what it is I want to accomplish.  Should I switch to my laptop, and make my desktop a “family” computer?  If so, where do I put it?  Do I want Logan to do his homework when he gets home from Kindergarten, or later when his brother gets home?  Do I want to grocery shop Mondays or Tuesdays?  Am I going to finally work out?  I want to get a radio for the kitchen.  What chores are the boys old enough for?

This is what’s consuming my thoughts for now.  This is why I haven’t been writing very much.  I am enveloped by all of this until things finally shake out.

I had two a-ha moments at work.  One was for a shindig.  I almost said no.  And then I said yes, because it’s my last fancy thing in the industry.  And then there were plans being made for the Christmas party and I thought, Yay!  I don’t have to do a thing – I won’t be here.

A replacement plan fell through, so I still don’t know if I’ll be there all the way through the end of November.  I’m hoping not, but I’m regretfully prepared if I am.

Terribly boring and all consuming.

Reason for the Quiet

August 22, 2008 By Michele 3 Comments

I know I’ve been quiet.  Very very quiet.

Why?

I’ve been thinking.  Debating.  Arguing.  Arguing with God.  More debating.  More thinking.

It’s no secret that I want to come home, that I think my calling is in the home, and that I’ve really had a hard time not being able to fulfill what I think I should be doing.

Today?  I quit my job.  Actually, I put in notice – my last day will be late November.  My hopes are that we’ll be able to train someone to replace me in that time (the wheels of HR move very slowly.)

I’m exhilarated and terrified and my head is pounding and I’m nervous, scared, anxious, what if…  what if… what if…  but know…  The deep down know…  that I’m doing what’s right for me and my family.  I’ve told my boss.  HR has been contacted.

I will be doing freelance projects and stuff.  From home (HA!), which will hopefully gear up in earnest in January.

Wow.

But the reason for the quiet was the internal debate and questioning.  I had to go inward for a bit to determine what I needed to do, what God wanted me to do, and what my family needed for me to do, and how to then make that all work together both mentally and financially.

The most immediate benefit though?  Spending more than an hour a day with my children.

The Heavy

July 10, 2008 By Michele 4 Comments

I don’t really want to go all heavy right now, with BlogHer prep and anticipation at it’s peak.  ‘Cause it is for me too!  I’m excited, and anxious, and anticipatory – and quite frankly need to get away.

But.

But.  I’m waiting.  You see, in a few days we’ll find out what, if anything, is causing my mother to jerk uncontrollably.  She had two tests, a cat scan/MRI, and an EEG.  We’re waiting on those results.  In the first, the tech asked her, while he was scanning her, “And does your doctor think you have a brain tumor?”  And during the EEG, “I don’t like the looks of this.”

And so we wait.

I’ve talked to Poe.  Whatever the results are, I’m going to BlogHer.  Good?  Great I’ll get the break I need.  Bad?  I’ll need the last harrah for myself.

I realize it seems morbid.  But when you’re part of the sandwich generation – you have to think morbid.  My mother has almost died 4 times in the last two years, and in the midst of that, two years ago, my biological mother died.  3 years ago, my brother committed suicide.  These are the facts of life folks – death is a fact of life.  I live next door to my two elderly parents.  I wait to find out if one of them is dying.

If she is – there are going to be big changes around here.  Like I said, I’ve already talked to Poe – and we have some plans in place in the case that she’s terminal.  If she’s not, huzzah and we move on with our life as it was.  If not?  Well, I’ve got a whole family, including an 8 year old, and 6 year old, who see grandma everyday, and it’s my role as daughter, wife, and mother, to see them through it.

So – I wait.

I just needed to get this out.

Toes are Useless

June 27, 2008 By Michele 2 Comments

I know I said I had a BlogHer disclaimer coming…  Instead I’m going to tell you about my morning.

‘Cause where else am I going to complain?

We’ve been having issues the last week with our water heater.  As in it deciding not to heat water whenever it wants to.  It’s a game now!  Ohhhh Hot Water!  Nope never mind.  Add showers, baths, dishes, and laundry – and the points that the heater is making in this game is just nuts!  So – Poe informed me this morning that there was no hot water, so I would need to shower at my parents house.

Ugh.

I love them, but somewhere along the line they turned into older folks, and they have lots of stuff.  Everywhere.  In the shower, out of the shower, on every surface.  Anyway – I’m in the shower shampooing my hair, soapy and all that, and I bumped into something and it flew off the wall and onto the 4th toe of my left foot.  My parents were still sleeping and so I did a very soapy silent scream.

And that’s how I came to have a very bruised swollen bloody toe, and $450 poorer for a freakin’ water heater today.

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