This is my life in a nutshell. Fast-paced and busy one minute. Slow and boring the next. Complete with the daily dramas of the Dennis-the-Menace style Kid, the husband who wants to be in the Armed Forces again after years as a civilian, with me in the middle hanging on for dear life!
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
Long Time, No Blog
Okay, so it has been quite awhile. What is going on? Nothing. Working like crazy, trying to keep the husband motivated. Trying to keep myself motivated. Looking for a new job to supplement the existing job. Or a really sweet fulltime offer that is substantial enough to stand alone. The bossman decided to give my weekend option schedule to someone with more seniority. So I am receiving a hefty pay cut as I join the weekday ranks like a normal person.Completely not opposed to just getting the hell away. Part of me is tempted to just find a place that neither of us has lived before, and starting fresh on our own. I hated Kentucky, where John was raised. John hates Indiana, where I spent some years with my family. So John prompted me to apply for a job in Chi-Town. It sounds pretty sweet, and I would not be deprived of the things I crave, of which my husband has no understanding. (I.E. Museums, Galleries, upper crust shopping, DIVERSITY.) I just don't want to be in the country. I am not cut out for country life. Gimme a brownstone on a city street anyday. I don't need a lawn. I'm allergic to grass for crying out loud!So other than these things, nothing is going on. I started a training program for swimming. It involves weight training, swimming, cardio, and nutrition. The first week, I lost 12 pounds. I fell off the wagon so hard that I bounced though over the past couple of weeks.Just gotta pick myself up.Okay, more when I have something interesting to discuss.
I am a wife, full-time registered respiratory therapist, mom. When this challenge didn't prove to be substantial enough, I became a pre-med student. I hope to become a pulmonologist sometime before I reach retirement age! I have an addiction to science and expensive handbags, am loyal to a fault, and am the most driven person you will ever meet.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better. whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded.
"We Have Lived and Loved Together" Charles Jeffreys
We have lived and loved together Through many changing years; We have shared each others' gladness And wept each others' tears; I have known never a sorrow That was long unsoothed by thee; For thy smiles can make a summer Where darkness else would be.
Like the leaves that fall around us In autumn's fading hours, Are the traitors' smiles that darken When the cloud of sorrow lowers; And through many such we've known, Love, Too prone alas to range; We both can speak of one love Which time can never change.
We have lived and loved together Through many changing years; We have shared each others' gladness And wept each others' tears. And let us hope the future As the past has been will be: I will share with thee my sorrows, And thou thy joys with me.
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