Boring Personal Update

I promise I won't dwell on personal updates, I know that my life is not that interesting. But, you all have been so supportive, so I needed to give you a quick scoop. I'll summarize quickly for you at the end, so feel free to skip to the bottom or skip all together if you don't care.

I started a new job on Thursday. Yay! I am so lucky to have found a job so quickly in this market, and I'm excited about the responsibilities I am taking on in this new position. Starting a new job is always hard - there's a lot of anxiety involved for me in meeting new people that I'll work with everyday - but so far, so great.

That said, I've shed a lot of tears and downed more bottles of wine over the last three weeks. My liver got a break when I had the flu, my tear ducts did not - I'm a terrible sick person. I had a sweet reader email me the other day to tell me that she's in a similar job situation with a recent lay-off (you know who you are - you should definitely start a blog, I will be an avid reader!), and I wrote back to her with my job lay-offs theory:

I feel like I've been through a bad break-up - you know, where the broken up with person just waits with cell phone in hand, hoping for a "how are you doing?" phone call and a glimmer of hope, but refuses to pick up the phone to call and give the impression that they're not thriving and moving on graciously and quickly? Yeah, loser party of one over here. I made some good friends at my old job, and a few of them were kept on after the lay-offs, but they haven't reached out to me in the way I kind of expected them to. I'm definitely ready to move on with this new position, I'm not mourning my old job, just the people.

B's been confused by the emotions that came out of this, I think, but absolutely so supportive and wanting only what's best for me. Your comments and support have meant so much to me, too I'm spending the weekend getting some posts ready for the week since I don't have as much free time on my hands now, and there will be home office after pictures!

Summing it up:
1) New job, HOORAY!
2) Bad break-up blahs, but I'm doing ok.
3) Thank goodness for wine. and supportive husbands.