training

going through orientation is a stepping stone to a new job but it is not an actual new life as opening a book is not actually reading it or perhaps more precisely reading the instructions is not actually putting the the new toy together... the floating through life vacation is over, but the new life, that is just scratching the surface of beginning... a new phase is beginning and this week, five days of waking early to be at orientation (first two days) and sit in on three days of the orientation that the staff get... learning the ropes of a new organization takes time when the job entails knowing as much as possible about the organization in order to identify as many specific and systematic risks and quality improvement opportunities as possible anywhere in the organization (kinda like being an organizational dr. house or perhaps more precisely like there is no tv show analogy to describe what i do {ok, so the obvious idea here, sarcastic or not, is a show about risk management but we aren't going there at the moment}, but something like that)...

why so serious?

looking back on the week

much time was spent preparing for the new schedule starting on monday... a lot of cleaning and household stuff and paperwork type stuff and phone calls that i won't have time for starting next week... the (e)thereal blog continues to be flooded with entries for whatever reason... last gasps or attention seeking or stats seeking (which is attention seeking) or... anyway, the several entries a day daily dump continues there as that has become the place for the sanity writing, which i might explain another time if you have not already stumbled upon the explanation... it's become a very consistent habit that keeps me as content and happy and stable and euphoric as i can be no matter what...

facebook took up a few nights (a subconscious reaction to starting the new job and switching to a 9-5 life apparently had me up all night a few nights this week now that i look back on it as a week)... i created my first "pages" there, three of them, and i must have had good reasons to start public pages out there in the fb world... maybe i am reaching out again... maybe the lonelies are budging aside the solitary contentment... or maybe i just want to make some sort of broader mark out in fb land... anyway, i spent several nights online...

i ran a 5k yesterday... with the foot wrap and unwrap and slower time cuz of foot and lower stamina and shower and hydrate that was more than 2 hours... used to be i could decide to run, slip on sneakers and head out the door and shower and be done with a 5k in less than half an hour... an aging body is so time consuming... i would like a medical check up, but no health insurance this year means no thorough check up this year... bad timing to lose the health insurance... hopefully no cancers are growing anywhere that would be found in the routine checks people our age are suppose to get... no bummer thoughts today... i ran/walked a 5k yesterday and feel fine today :)

have softball in a little while and the weekend begins.... wishing for more time... hoping you are smiling more than frowning... sending love :)

water for the boys

again... and another new life starts, sort of, as the phone rings and a job is offered and it is the second best job in town (maybe the best) for me cuz i can do it in my sleep and yet there are as many challenges as i'd like to take on and the atmosphere and appreciation is such a positive opposite compared to where i've been... so life is good and karma does come around once in a while...

again...