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Date Posted: 23:37:32 08/15/05 Mon
Things here are about the same as always. Jacob started school three weeks ago, he seems to be doing okay but it's always hard to tell with him until we see the report card. His summer was very short. Of his 8 weeks off, he spent a couple of weeks in Juarez Mexico rebuilding a church, then a week in Norman at Christian Leadership camp, then a week on vacation with the rest of us. It's been so long since we took a full week off all at the same time, that we don't remember the last time we did it. We take long weekends occasionally, but even then it's usually just two or three of us. Gretchen goes back to school in two weeks, Mike will drive her there. Mike's job is still aggravating him. His boss is the main cause of that. I don't think there's any solution for it except to change jobs or outlast the boss. Either way, it's getting into an unknown situation and that can be uncomfortable, too. My job is going well, so far. I'd say it's the best job I've ever had. I'm still having bad flashbacks to the last little slice of Hades I called gainful employment, but they're fewer between. The idea that I don't have to go to work on the weekend unless I want to still kind of makes me giddy. I go anyway, but it's MY choice. I'm also still being motivated by guilt regarding the way I left the ad agency so I occasionally help them out a bit. I really don't want to, but I don't know how to say no to them. I've asked them to stop calling me, but they keep saying it's an "emergency". There aren't enough writers in this town. They're using a guy in LA mainly, and it's problematic. I've been out of the agency biz for about 10 months now, and I'm still getting calls from other companies to freelance as well, but I don't have any trouble telling them no. But I feel guilty toward my new job for taking any work from Laster. Darned if I do, darned if I don't. Hopefully I can end this less gradually now.
Jake wants us to buy him a junk car to fix up, and I think we found one. The deal there is he will want to drive it after he fixes it, which totally goes against my overprotective gene. I've been fortunate that my kids have put up with my overprotectiveness for the most part. And I've eased up a bit...at least I let Jake drive after dark now, as long it isn't too late...or a weekend night...don't want him out with all the drunks. Man, I'm having a hard time letting go!
Well, there's probably more but I want to leave some for Mike to tell if he feels like it.
Life goes on...
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