~William Faulkner
I have been promoted at work. A new position that contained a job description that enticed me enough to give up my part time status and go full time. And I am really excited about it.
The people I will be working with are wonderful and, although it will be in a different capacity, the job duties are in line of what I have been doing since about 1994. Teaching, training, and orientating new nurses. Just on a full time basis now. And there is a new electronic automated record system we are developing and once that is up and running, I will be teaching, training, and orientating that also. Who knew that my little stint as a substitute teacher in the computer lab a few months ago was a hint of what was to come. My only concern is that now I get to wear office clothes instead of scrubs. I see a shopping trip in the near future.
I know I will have to reorganize my life to work full time and write. But, I am looking forward to it. In talking with a good friend the other day about it, she said the most writing she got done was when she worked full time. And that manuscript ended up a Golden Heart finalist. She scheduled the writing and stuck to it. Unless someone was bleeding or blue or there was smoke, her family was trained not to bother her during her writing time. My DH says I work better under pressure and with strict schedules. Several of my ‘duties’ in certain areas will end soon and will be one more thing off my mind. So the next few days, I will be working on said schedule and see what I come up with.
On the weekend:
Beautiful weekend weather. A little on the warm side. DH and I went shopping for groceries at Sam’s Food Club. If you are not familiar with this, it is like a huge warehouse where you can find good prices on items, bulk items, and have great meat and produce. DH loves to go there. I compare it to me going to a bookstore. Never want to leave. He browses slowly down each aisle spending a good amount of time on different things. And it has everything from food to automotive supplies to electronics to jewelry to clothes to books. So getting him out of there is sometimes a challenge.
And he loves Saturdays where the little elderly ladies are serving samples of different foods throughout the store. He will try everything, striking up a conversation with each person behind the table. And they just love him. He makes them laugh, and although he is nowhere near their age, will relate to him in some way and they will talk and talk to him thinking he is ‘just so cute’ as one quoted to me.
He’s not fooling me. He’s after the food samples.
Want to say congrats to Dennie for another sale to Samhain! Way to go, girlfriend!
Until tomorrow…
~Sandy J
