Happy Spring! ...(???)

Boy Howdy... We made it through to SPRING! yippie-skippy!!!

Temps into the 70s today - that oughta take care of the snow we got on Sunday and Monday!

I just sent out a "Happy Birthday" card to my sister, in hopes that it arrives for her special day - this will be a mile stone one for her I'm guessing...

I put some smarty pants comments inside and: ???, for the return address on the envelope.

Alekx and Burfica have both asked about how I am doing in 'relocating'

Answer: Not too good, not right now - although I am keeping at it. [beams a hopeful, optimistic smile]

It just seems like everything in my world is either on hold or backed way up right now.

Like, I called the IRS 2-3 weeks ago and asked them to send me a 970 - the instructions for taking higher education credits... the packet arrived yesterday - with an order list that had my request alright, and ...bankruptcy forms... (I was not amused)... someday, though, that's gonna be funny to me. I just know it.

I haven't worked/had a pay-check in what (?) 12 weeks now?

This was going to be ok when I first 'found myself unemployed' because I had crunched the numbers and looked at the time factor.

I could take some time to rededicate my focus to my school work (And I have. I've pulled everything up to the 'A' standard I so dearly love - this was slipping before...) ... and find a much more suitable job in every sense of the word - including pay scale, because -

I had some 'reserved resources' and I figured on some pocket cushion in the form of my student loans (they have YET to come in btw, that has been the real killer for me ... dang it!) but then,

Dun-dun-dunnn! (insert ominous music here)

I hadn't foreseen the 'eviction' - I had not even dreamt that my dear relatives would pick right now (with real estate sales slumping of all things and times!?) as the time to want to spruce up the place and put it back on the market. Hello!!!???

You know, I can't say a bad word about it either - so I won't - other than the timing sucks (for me). All things considered, they (the collective 'they') have all been really, really good to me down through the years. I hope they get an immediate buyer and one willing to go their full asking price! Truly, I do.

Chalk all this up to a big lesson in unfortunate and unforeseen events. . . coming 'round and laying smack down.

(I've an elderly, retired school teacher friend, "Well, you should know by now that bad things do happen to good people - sometimes." Yeah, her timing was perfect, we shared a laugh, actually... the situation is ripe with stress, irony, stress, lessons to be learned (and then some!), stress, er... did I mention stress?)

Talk about a rough ride this month, though - up, down, up, down... the pressure, is 'on', as the saying goes.

Another example: One of the jobs I've applied for thus far, one with an attractive start-wage and benefits package - it would be with the State public power (Stability! Just what I'm looking for, yes!) called me back, asked me to take a 'blind typing' test (they cover the keyboard with a box so you can't/don't look at the keys as you type the test). I must have passed their minimum at least, because they sent out an interview packet with paperwork for me to fill out and made an appointment with me to interview on the 17th. Whoo-hoo, right?

I was feeling grrreat about that - until the phone rang again (last Friday) and they cancelled the interview - pending further notice - because my interviewer was down, sick.

Whatever.

I have a 'job' to do today. =)

My brother and his family are in Hawaii, right now - he couldn't get his buddy to feed/water the 2cats and 1rottweiler for the last 2 days they'd be gone, so he called on me. This will be a very temporary position, (lol)but it will pay - (and pay better than the last 'job' that I did have.) lol (see, irony here?) Bah-ha-ha-ha!

Yes.

Spring and the good weather are helping my attitude a bunch. . .

Jobs are opening up, a little bit here.

I've got several good prospects to apply for yet today and have already submitted my resume to a couple ahead of these this morning.

I know I have way too, too much 'stuff' to do right now but, the fact is that I just 'shut down' (other than reading through my assignments) -everything over the past weekend.

I think I pretty much had to.

I prayed alot and I focused on 'What's next?'

I should have fasted, along with the praying, perhaps, but I went with the self medication through chocolate chip cookie idea instead.

(I'll post the recipe at a later date - these have puddin' in the mix)

I mean, I was down to either taking 'a break' from EVERYTHING last week, or suicide... Guess which one I choose? (Insert more edgy laughter here: hahaha! Waves her fist wildly in the air!)

I mean, suicidal thoughts do not stand a chance in the face of ooie good chocolate chip cookies - do they? I fail to see how anyone could off themselves with a cookie in the house. Seriously.

(disclaimer: no worries please - I am oh, so kidding about the "S" word here)

... So, here I am - smack dab in the midst of the refiners fire (see previous post)

Loving... life, liberty, SPRING!, the good Lord above, you (for reading all the way down to here. lol) my studies (even though we are into economics right now), and the big unknown too - as in how is this all gonna play out and where is this taking me next?

"And we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose. " -- Romans 8:28

I have a testimony that this is true, at least, it always has been for me!

Cheerios! (and much love) to all who pass this way...

D ~