LAST Day at Home

How is it the end of August?  Anyone?  Where have I been all summer?  WHAT'S GOING ON?

Um, I got a job.  A good job.  A full-time job in healthcare instead of government which will be very different and very exciting and will help me grow and introduce me to cool people and get me back into the world of the living!  The team is so awesome, it already has a Maggie!  Except she lost her "e" somewhere along the line, poor Maggi, so people will be able to tell us apart.  Biggest foreseeable challenge, obviously, is writing emails and spelling her name right.  I mean, I already know the advanced spelling of her name but I have major muscle memory when I type, so I'm sure I'll have to go back and correct myself all the time.  But no worries: I have the same issue when I type out the name of the country, France.  Since I spell my sister's name, "Francie," more often, when it comes a moment for the country, I type "F-r-a-n-c-i-e-spacebar-delete-delete-delete-e-spacebar."  That's how my fingers are so in shape.*

I am so incredibly grateful for the new job.  I'll start 10 months to the day since I left my last job and we've got some financial catching up to do.  Plus, I'm starting to become a hermit and a wuss.  We're talking like I need a nap after I go to the grocery store kind of wuss and when people ask me if I can help out with something, I'm trying to come up with a coherent answer while mentally performing a full Scarlett O'Hara faint.  I need smelling salts to get the mail.  It's bad.


I am also grateful for the time at home.  I had to debrief a bit from my last job and it was cool to spend the time with the kids and with Aaron.  We got rid of a lot of clutter, settled into the house, and I got to connect with friends and myself.  I haven't really taken time off without having a newborn in the house, so this was good to be able-bodied and at home.  It'll be good to reconnect with the world.

"But Maggie, what will I do without your awesome blog posts?"

First, let's be honest: I haven't been writing, like, at all.  As a matter of fact, I've got a backlog of summer stories that went on facebook but never got fleshed out here, so I know that if you aren't my friend on facbeook, you've already gotten used to not having awesome blog posts.  Also, if you've read this a lot, you were used to not-awesome posts before that but at least I used to post more often, right?

Second, there will be posts and probably more regular posts.  I tend to get more done when I have more going on.  Plus, the daily work routine will mean I have to schedule time to write, rather than feeling like I can get to everything later and then playing Candy Crush and Criminal Case on Facebook (don't hate) between cups of coffee and spinning in the computer chair.  Anyone who has wanted laundry to get done in my house should have signed me up for full-time classes and extracurricular activities so I can show you what a time management rock star I COULD be if only I needed to manage the time.

So I got a job!  And I have ONE day to chill before it, so I'll spend today getting all the things done that I planned to do a week ago when I found out I was going back to work.



*Not true: I haven't been able to get my wedding ring off my finger in over a year and it occurs to me every week or so that I might lose the finger when the time comes.  I try to stay away from areas where I might get mugged and just lose the finger for the ring.  Fortunately those areas seem to be in 18th century Europe and in the Game of Thrones books and I'm lacking a time machine and the ability to jump into books.  What was I talking about again?  Oh yeah, big fitness goal is to get the fingers in shape to take the rings off so I can get them cleaned and sparkly.