Life as I know it today, is about to come to an end....and I am about to embark upon yet another new adventure in the many chapters of my life. After six years of retirement I am going back to work.
This venture is taking place solely to pay off our house. God has been good to us, and had we been really wise with our provisions, the house probably could probably have been paid off when I was teaching. But...life happens and hindsight is always better than foresight, so I am going back to work with the full intention of devoting every penny made to paying off the mortgage. If our calculations are right it should take about 30 months on what I will be paid starting out and less as I receive raises in my pay.
Everyone keeps asking what I will be doing and where. Well, I will be working at the Jackson Hewett office in Owasso. That is about 3 minutes from the house. At first I thought I would be working from home, but we decided yesterday that this would be better for everyone involved. And that is fine with me. At least I don't have to drive to 71st and Lewis! Next, and this is the part that blows my mind....I can work as little or as much as I choose. Now, I am not sure what you do with that option really. I love the idea of being able to decide that, but I never want to take advantage of a lifelong friendship. But the bottom line is this.. Susan has been trying to get me to work for her for EVER, and when I told her I would she said she was just happy to have someone she knew she could count on, would work, work hard, and give 110% at whatever the task at hand. That brings me to the "what" I will be doing. I will be the assistant the person in the main accounting office who does everything in the accounting office that does NOT pertain to ACCOUNTING. I used to laugh when Susan asked me to work for her. She knows how I am with numbers and I did not understand how you could work in an accounting office without working with numbers. About three years ago I had a taste of that when she called and begged me to work for her for just two months getting new buys set up. So now I know. The reality of it is this...I may do something different everyday. Then during the peak of the season I will more than likely assist in the office with greeting customers, having them sign on the dotted line and distributing refunds.
So, I have my key, my destination, and will receive my first assignment Monday morning at 9:00.
One of the best things about this is that I will get to work at least one day a week with Susan. She is after all my best friend. And for that reason she has chosen NOT to be my supervisor (although whether she knows it or not, she is the BIG BOSS. The company is owned by one of her younger brothers, but she is the oldest of six siblings and the BIG SISTER). She has been debating whether or not to work from the Owasso office, since she lives here now with her new hubby, the Square Dancer. I have tried to convince her that she should work from here all the time now that they have the new Peachtree system up and running.....and so due to a strike with Boeing (The Square Dancer works for Spirit, an airline company associated with Boeing) she is working on Thursdays in Owasso to accommodate his schedule.
She told me yesterday that she may end up doing just that, since it seems that all of the houses they have been looking at are here, even though the "better deals" seem to be else where, but keep falling through. She accused me of praying for her to live and work here and using my influence with the Lord to make it happen! I was shocked...OK, not really. I openly admitted it. After all...we have been trying for at least 29 years to live in the same town and attend the same church. Of course the whole working part was not a part of the dream.....but I will take what I can get!
Friday, September 12, 2008
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CHA-CHING!
For those of you who are too young to remember....this is all Doogie Houser's fault...all this blogging! Doogie Houser was young doctor, just a boy really. He graduated from High School at too young an age and then attended medical school graduating at the top of his class. But genius had nothing to do with how he related to the world socially so he suffered the same things that "normal" teenagers did. He would come home from his work at the hospitol and put his words to computer keys and keep track of his daily thoughts and happenings much like most teenagers did in diaries or journals. So...here we are.
I have been contemplating this blog thing for awhile, but just today finally decided to make it a reality.
Much of life is changing right now, so why not try some new things along with all the other changes.
I don't really like change very much. They say that becomes more common the older you get, and I suppose it is true. I like routine, status quo, the way things used to be. And yet, one of my favorite quotes is, "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!" That means if you don't want what you always got....you have to change!
So, change we do. Right now, Thor, the love of my life, is going through change on his job. What he is doing he has done before, but not for almost a decade. At first, when he told me he felt like an old dinosaur and would have to learn "how to" all over again I thought he was being silly. Until I was interviewing for jobs after 16 years and had to learn "how to" all over again. He was not being silly at all. He was being honest. There is a great deal of difference in approaching a task when you are fresh out of college and ready to take on the world idealistically and doing so when you are aware of reality. But...I am happy to say, Thor has come through with flying colors, as I knew he would, and doing a great job...at his "new" old job!
Our son, the Bohemian, has just taken a new job assignment in a new town. He has been struggling with living without his family until they can sell their house or at least rent it and move to his new location with him. It has been difficult and is getting really tiresome after five months. But, there does seem to be some parting of the clouds. The Bohemian, the Busy Bee, Mr. Golden Curls, and the Lil' Spitfire are all looking forward to the one change that will bring them all under one roof!
Our daughter, Lizardbreath, and her husband, the Rock have just returned home after being gone for nearly a month attending a business convention in Nevada and visiting Thor and I in Oklahoma. Today they are having a Princess Birthday Party for The Princess. She will be six on Tuesday! That does not seem possible. And yet another change is occuring....we are not able to be there! This is the first birthday we have missed for any of our 6 grandchildren....and I hope it will be the last. But gas prices and the fact that I will be leaving for Colorado with Tickle Sister on Tuesday made the trip impractical, especially since they were just here last week. But, we called her today and the Princess said it was alright, she got the present we sent her.
Well, time for another change. I must leave this computer and go keep Thor company....I know he is just waiting for me to add conversation and comments to his television viewing pleasure.....What?!
I have been contemplating this blog thing for awhile, but just today finally decided to make it a reality.
Much of life is changing right now, so why not try some new things along with all the other changes.
I don't really like change very much. They say that becomes more common the older you get, and I suppose it is true. I like routine, status quo, the way things used to be. And yet, one of my favorite quotes is, "If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got!" That means if you don't want what you always got....you have to change!
So, change we do. Right now, Thor, the love of my life, is going through change on his job. What he is doing he has done before, but not for almost a decade. At first, when he told me he felt like an old dinosaur and would have to learn "how to" all over again I thought he was being silly. Until I was interviewing for jobs after 16 years and had to learn "how to" all over again. He was not being silly at all. He was being honest. There is a great deal of difference in approaching a task when you are fresh out of college and ready to take on the world idealistically and doing so when you are aware of reality. But...I am happy to say, Thor has come through with flying colors, as I knew he would, and doing a great job...at his "new" old job!
Our son, the Bohemian, has just taken a new job assignment in a new town. He has been struggling with living without his family until they can sell their house or at least rent it and move to his new location with him. It has been difficult and is getting really tiresome after five months. But, there does seem to be some parting of the clouds. The Bohemian, the Busy Bee, Mr. Golden Curls, and the Lil' Spitfire are all looking forward to the one change that will bring them all under one roof!
Our daughter, Lizardbreath, and her husband, the Rock have just returned home after being gone for nearly a month attending a business convention in Nevada and visiting Thor and I in Oklahoma. Today they are having a Princess Birthday Party for The Princess. She will be six on Tuesday! That does not seem possible. And yet another change is occuring....we are not able to be there! This is the first birthday we have missed for any of our 6 grandchildren....and I hope it will be the last. But gas prices and the fact that I will be leaving for Colorado with Tickle Sister on Tuesday made the trip impractical, especially since they were just here last week. But, we called her today and the Princess said it was alright, she got the present we sent her.
Well, time for another change. I must leave this computer and go keep Thor company....I know he is just waiting for me to add conversation and comments to his television viewing pleasure.....What?!
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