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Date Posted: 14:02:18 05/01/05 Sun
I feel a little out of touch with some of you (mostly you boys who don't write very often), so I thought it was time for an update.
Me first, since this was my idea.
I feel a LOT better. My thyroid medicine is working great - actually they just told me to stop taking so much because its working a little too well. All of my weird symptoms have gone away and I can actually run - just in time for the job at Schatz to go full time, which has been exhausting, but if I didn't have the extra energy to deal with that, I'd be dead.
The job is going really well, although I do miss working at Morgan Stanley. It was nice to have that break and switch to something different in the middle of the day, and not have to be quite so focused on staring at a computer screen until my eyes want to shrivel up and fall out of my head, and I had my friend Shaun to talk to at MS. But I can't complain, at Schatz (this is the design job, by the way), things are really taking off. We are on the GSA schedule now, and we hired a new writer recently who not only writes but is amazing at organizing things and has taken over some critical jobs, such as being a go-between with the people who are in charge of their respective magazines or newsletters or whatever, and us. I am not a people person, as you know, and we have some clients who just love to call and talk about how we could possibly change things for an hour "could you replace this picture with an Asian person who looks like he's thinking and move this over here, and add a comma there and take out that space and blah blah blah . . ." yeah. Teri is great with those people and she's also helping Sheree (boss-lady) write up proposals, and hopefully soon we'll have so much work we'll have to hire more people and build that building Sheree is always talking about. She and the other Sherry (her partner) are great to work with and are always giving us bonuses and perks (like CAKE) and I just recently found out that on our newest contract I make more per hour when I'm working on it, because they bid it higher. Woo hoo! Its really not that much more over the month, but any new job they can bid higher on for the graphic design translates to higher pay for me. I was thinking for a while there how I didn't want to live here forever, but there's no way I'm leaving a job like this, as long as things keep moving forward. Ooh I'm also working part time for my church, doing administrative stuff, which keeps me very busy but I enjoy it. And I'm enjoying going to church again. It's still hard to go alone, but I actually want to go, and it has been a while since I've felt like that.
Anyway . . . Haley, as you know, is all happy with Monroe. They are still in Edinburgh at the moment but will be leaving for Washington D.C. soon. Haley calls and you can just tell by the way she talks about Monroe that she's really in love. And its not all perfect, which is actually good, because she tells me how they get in arguments and how they work them out. I was so worried that she wouldn't handle things like that very well, seeing as how Danny and I were such horrible examples of how to handle conflict, but I think she and Monroe will do much better because Monroe is a very calm person but doesn't hold things in, and Haley is working very hard to communicate well. And they actually live their beliefs. I hope they keep it up.
You can read about haley's plans on her xanga - www.xanga.com/onee, and save me from typing it all out again. For a while there she was calling me every night and we were praying together, which was sooo great because we weren't arguing about anything, and it was helping me a lot, and I think her too. But now Monroe's phone has been turned off and they don't have the money to turn it back on right now, so that kind of sucks. But she's happy and safe and that's all that matters to me.
Josh enjoys walking up to me to see how much taller he is than me. Every day. If he feels taller he gets this goofy grin on his face, so I try to be as short as possible around him. He's got that lanky thing going on; take a look at Adrien Brody - that's Josh when he gets older. He is not doing very well in school. He started having panic attacks and severe anxiety about school and has been on homebound for a while, but I'm hardly ever here to make him do his schoolwork, and he gets all frustrated and won't even try to do it. We did have some testing done and have an IEP meeting tomorrow, so I'm hoping he'll be accepted into the Alternative School here for next year. They have much smaller classes and no homework and he says he thinks he can handle going there. The older you are the more options there are for completing high school (like online classes), so I'm hoping he can get caught up. He doesn't want to drop out, even though he hates school, and I'm not giving him that option anyway. He's interested in doing 3D modeling, and has been drawing again lately. Any help you uncles could give in getting him programs and tutorials that would keep his interest would be greatly appreciated. He has GMax on his computer but has gotten frustrated with trying to figure it out himself.
Other than that, Josh is occasionally extremely helpful to me (fixing my breakfast for me all the time, going with me places, helping cook dinner when I actually cook), but he's also extremely lazy at times - it takes threatening bodily harm to get him to do the dishes. But I seriously don't know what I'd do without him. I had a major meltdown last week when my computer died (which meant I had to completely rebuild the church newsletter I was almost done with), and Josh was right here to console me, offering me cookies and Dr. Pepper and telling me it would be ok. He's my comic relief, gives me hugs voluntarily, and keeps me up at night talking to me, which I'll trade sleep for anytime.
Other than that . . . oh yeah, well the divorce should be final anytime now. I'm just waiting for the lawyers to negotiate a settlement. I'm hoping Danny won't drag this out, but I haven't heard a word from him, which is fine with me. I've finally gotten to the point where I'm not thinking murderous, angry thoughts all day and am working on just moving past all this; it feels better.
I have been sort of seeing a guy, Jeff . . . we've gone out three times and he's really nice and I enjoy having him to talk to and go places with, but I've already decided he's better friend material than anything else. Unfortunately I'm not very good at communicating that. He keeps trying to be all boyfriendy and if he was the right person that might be ok, I dunno . . . this is why I hate dating. Sometime soon I'm going to have to tell him he can stop being all sweet and thoughtful because this isn't going to go anywhere he wants it to go, and hope he doesn't hate me.
Egad, this is long. Sorry. Hope I didn't bore you to death.
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