The one where she loses her job...

On Thursday of this past week, exactly 1 week before Thanksgiving, I was laid off form First Data Corp, after 7 years of loyal service. I didn't see it coming, and it felt surreal...like I some sort of dream that you know can't possibly be realistic, but sounds and looks real enough for the moment. It's Saturday now, and I haven't woken up yet, so I am guessing this isn't a dream.

I'm really not as freaked out as I expected to be. I am actually almost excited. Or perhaps the word that I am looking for is delusional? Hmmm...not really sure. At any rate, there are a great many things in this life that I have always thought I would love to do...but with the nice, fat, steady paycheck coming in week after week, the thought of chasing down any of those notions was unthinkable. Well, now with it being taken from me, I feel entitled to try them out. And the biggest blessing of all is that my husband is 100% supportive and behind me on this...I sort of wonder if a part of him isn't almost satisfied to finally, after 6 years of marriage be able to stake his claim as the bread winner...and you know what, if that is part of his "enlightened" approach to all of this, so be it! I am happy for him...

For now, I am going to stay home and be wife, mother, homemaker. We'll see how long this idea enchants me...though something tells me it will be quite some time.

I really do think that I am going to be OK...at least for the next hour or so.

So this is blog...

I can remember fancying myself something of a writer when I was growing up...actually had the notion that I would someday sustain myself through the feverish scribblings of my pen...then, one day I just sort of stopped writing. The funny thing is, when I think about the exact moment that I stopped, it seems to me that it was the exact moment that I actually, finally had something interesting to say.

So many years have passed since then, and so many thoughts, stories, poems have gone unwritten...now, it just feels right to write. So off we go...

And in the bath...

He: What's your favorite planet?
She: Pluto
He: Pluto's not a planet anymore.
She: The moon
He: The moon's not a planet either.
She: Earth?
He: Huh, well my favorite is Venus. And Jupiter. And Mars. I like all of the planets.
She: Oh yeah, me too...

I dunno, but somehow I don't think that I knew that many planets at 3 & 5...

Overheard at dinner

From the mouth of my 5 1/2 year old son:

He:Who is God's wife?
Me: He doesn't really have a wife...
He: He must have a wife, he has so many children!

He: Who made God?
Me: Ummmmm

Wow, to be so black and white again...