The Sunday Currently {38}
the little girl doesn’t like smiling for pictures….
and he’s such a fat, lovable tub of lard, that Mr. Baci…..
pssssttttttt… Google Reader disappears with the start of July. Are you following Like Ordinary Life on Bloglovin’ yet?
reading Carry On, Warrior on audiobook. It’s exactly the book I needed about one year ago but I wouldn’t have been ready to hear it back then. This book is amazing. Glennon’s amazing. There are so many parts of her story, her “brutiful” story, that I relate very closely to, and now that I’m in what is arguably the happiest, most confident place of my entire life (truth, I tell you), I can listen to her story with an open ear. A year ago, I wouldn’t have been able to believe her. Everyone needs to read this book. I might even make my husband read it, haha.
listening Pandora’s “Road Trippin’” radio station. They’ve created quite a few great summer hits stations. This one is so far my favorite.
smelling the thunderstorm and all of its wet, calming effects. It’s a lazy day.
loving my new job. I’m still formulating my thoughts around how it will feel in the long run. It’s the sort of job that never stops, because, well, social media never stops. So, I’m literally tied to my work via my work phone 24-7 (even on weekends) to keep an eye on our social media channels, but I don’t even mind. I don’t get it, really. If you told me to “keep an eye on work” after my work hours as a teacher, I’d quit. This must be what it feels like to be doing something you love. And, now that I’m out of it for real, it’s clear that I never loved teaching. But, that’s probably a blog post unto itself. So I’ll remind myself to explore that in depth a bit later.
thinking how nice it is to have someplace to wear my nicer, more structured business clothes for a change. Is it weird that they are the ones I always gravitate to on the racks? But, as a pre-k teacher, I would wear them for a day and then realize “that was stupid” as soon as I have to dodge my first paintbrush, or sit on the carpet with the little tikes. It really is nice to dress professionally. It fits me well.
needing to continue with my 6am workouts. Even with an hour long commute, I feel liberated by my 9-5 work hours. I can get a lot done before leaving the house at 8am. It’s working out great.
wanting to take back my excessive, four drink, liquid caloric intake last night. I don’t really get hangovers anymore, but what does happen is a terrible night’s sleep, followed by complete dehydration and I don’t particularly like that. Note to self: two drinks and be done. I don’t do that very often…. and the sad thing is my college self is laughing at me because, really, four drinks is nothing compared to those wild and crazy nights.
wishing the heat would cool off. When I woke up yesterday, my phone told me it was 66 degrees. Naturally, I jumped out of bed to go for a cool run. LIES. All lies! It was at least 85 degrees and pure humidity. I wanted to cry. That run was cut in half.
hoping for a great second week. It’s a short one. The office is closed both Thursday and Friday (!!!!! this makes me so happy!!!!) so I have three days to pull the final on-boarding strings together.
feeling proud of myself for this recent decision. I was torn so much between just sticking it out so we could move sooner and the empty feelings of not really liking my job. So, yes, in the end, this cements us to the DC area for quite a bit longer, but, the benefits outweigh that one fact. It was scary, at times, thinking about what I was doing when I took this job offer, but I am so glad I did it.
wearing all white. Just because. I don’t really know why.
writing an updated “about” section. It’s about time. ;)
clicking through your blogs! It’s been hard to keep up with this new job and everything. I’m still working on my work-life balance. Ironically, I can tell it’ll be better than it was when I was a teacher and had more free time. But, either way, I’m catching up this weekend!
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