Still plodding along, and I do mean plodding, athough I just recently feel as if we’re picking up the pace around here.  Change is in the air.  I can taste the shifting sea winds.  For one thing, I am pretty determined not to work at my current job as of the new year.  I really want to find a job that is truly part time, like 3 days a week, tops, with no extra after-work hours.  And I don’t mind if I take off some time before I do that.  It is one of those things where my gut knows that everything will be allright and I feel like I need to rip the rug up from under me, knowing that I will land on my feet.  It may not make sense financially, but it makes sense emotionally.

We went on a vacation recently to Colorado to stay with parents, and, stripped down to my rawest fibers, which always seems to happen with my first family, I realized my nerves were pretty fried from trying to hold it all together the past year.  I kind of had a melt down served sunny side up with a panic attack on the side.  There were two, nonconsecutive days there where I pretty much cried all day.  The smallest thing set me off and it was out of nowhere, or so it seemed.  I realize I had been bottling up a lot of stress accumulated from trying to juggle the elusive work/life balance.  And I am worn thin.

Also, I’ve been doing this life coaching program, via telephone, where I participate in a weekly call with 5 other "students" and one coach.  We focus on goals and promises and maintaining integrity by keeping promises to yourself, positive intentions, the law of attraction and cultivating positive change.  In any event, this got me thinking about a lot of things and mainly helped me to realize that the status quo is simply not acceptable for long.  More on this later, as I am tired.

One of my goals is to provide at least weekly updates here, so I"m not going to belabor the content, just get something down.

Adios.