Better Days

This has been a good week. The kids are both back in school again - and although we had a little kerfuffle (I really love that word) with Katie's schedule, that problem has been fixed and she'll have the classes she wanted as of next week. Payton really likes his new teacher, and seems to like third grade also.

I got really great news too. I finally got a call back from the library. I'm sure the man from the employment department thinks I'm quite mad because I nearly yelped in his ear when he said I had the job. The hours are perfect - part time so I can still be with the kids a lot - although the pay is peanuts.

I know I could go back to ophthalmology and make three times as much money but my heart just isn't in it. I was so miserable at the end of that career I get nauseated thinking of going back. All the politics and backstabbing and crap ... bleah.

I loved taking care of patients, learning and working with my doctors but I couldn't just clock in, do my work, clock out and go home. Everything and everyone gets tainted by the tornado of drama and that ruins everything. Gossip is everywhere, and gossiphounds thrive.

Enough of that negative crap ...

I'm still working with Charlotte at the book review site and loving it. Imagine - getting free books in the mail to read and then write about. I'm loving it so much that if I was getting paid to do it I'd die from happiness. As it is, free books are payment enough for now.

Most amazing of all is that Charlotte sent my name to a publisher. I've been working on my resume' and will send it off as soon as it's polished. If I could get paid to write, work at the library, and spend time with my kids, well ... that would be too wonderful for words.

This was just a quick update for those of you that still check back in with me. I know I've been posting so infrequently that I may have lost many readers but I'll never stay away.

Promise!

Is It Just Me?

Has anyone else noticed the change in the Blog-O-Sphere?

Two blogs I read often - one of them religiously - have gone and shut down on me. Three more have posted "hiatus" notices.

It's helped me to thin out my "Favorites" list but I'm sad to see them go. I understand that real life gets in the way, and that sometimes you just need a break from blogging. But, honestly? I'm feeling a little selfishly upset. OK, more than a little. I miss 'em. Baaaaaaad.

I've been a mite on-again-off-again with my own posting so I get it. I really do. But I always try to make my way back here again - to connect with my e-friends all over the place. There's a lot going on here now - I'm really loving the book reviews I'm doing, and I'm starting a new online business next week (or so) and possibly doing an interview and writing a brochure for a very prestigious architectural company here in Vegas. I'm trying to keep busy, and maybe make money doing something I love so much it actually leaves me at a loss for words. Yeah, I know. Me.

So, just in case you were wondering - if you decide you need to shut down or take a break, I'll understand but miss you like crazy.

But if you stick around and slog your way through ... I'm your biggest fan.