finally, its happened to me

After months, really over a year of looking for a job on the DAILY - I have found one. And one that is on my career path! I couldn't be more excited and scared to death!

Since accepting the position and putting in my two weeks' notice, the seriousness and overwhelming fear has set in. What if I fail, what if I have over-valued my expertise and abilities and I fall flat on my face!?!?! The fear of entering an entire new world, that I know very little about. It's a fear that I'm sure is within anyone upon moving jobs and careers, let alone one that they've been in for over 10 years!

Of course, I have no choice but to break through this fear and face it head on! And I am trying, hard to do that, mostly because I really don't know what I'm getting into and won't until I get there. Until then it's books like First Time Manager and Office Manager for Dummies will be occupying what spare time I have.

modest mouse

i'm all for freedom of speech. i believe it and i realize that it is difficult to pick and choose just what is considered free speech. in these times, there is hate speech (racial or against GLBT), and sexual harassment in the form of speech and one that is most definitely not spoken of too often is religious hate speech. though, now, it seems to be on every news station and every paper in the country, because one man, one church believe that it is their right to burn the religious book of another faith. what happened to equality for all? and not labeling an entire group of people as extremists because of what a very small percentage of people of that same religion have previously done? if this is how we practice things here, than by that same logic there should be no male catholic priests, ever, because they are ALL child molesters, right? and all baptists ministers are thieves all steal from their congregation. and all mormons practice polygamy, right? OBVIOUSLY we know these things NOT to be true! so, why can we as a nation give other religious leaders and religions that are considered "home based religions" the benefit of the doubt and understand that a few to don't mean many, and definitely do not mean all, but we seem unable to do this for the muslim religion? why?

no one in this nation would stand for the burning of the bible or the book of mormon, correct? so, how it is acceptable for the burning of the qur'an?

a few other things i'd like to point out:

it's not even a mosque they want to build in NYC, it's a freakin' community center! pretty much the equivalent of a YMCA.

the muslim faith and it's followers are NOT all extremist in nature!

doing things like this is just going to make us look more ignorant and intolerable than we already do. it will just make things worse. can we not put the matches down and come sit down at the table and act like grown-ups?!?!?! this country came about because of the want and desire for freedom of religion, well that and not wanting to pay taxes. but still, the freedom of religion is a pretty big foundation of our nation.

president obama said - "If he's listening, I hope he understands that what he's proposing to do is completely contrary to our values as Americans. That this country has been built on the notion of freedom and religious tolerance." - couldn't have said it better myself.

you spin me right round

Yup, 31 years ago today, I was born. It's been a crazy year, first the wedding, then the holiday's then B got laid off, then the medical issue and we are here again. So I decided to take a trip down memory lane, review my post from last year and see how far (ahead or behind) I've come.

Last year at this time I was focusing on the wedding and all the activities around that. Well those went beautifully.

Last year I had 22 classes remaining, today I'm at 13 (not including the 4 I'm taking this semester)! I did indeed bump my hours up from 9 to 12 and took both summer sessions. I am still hoping to be done in December 2011, but that will require me taking 5 classes one semester, and 4 in the summer, I just do not know if I can do that. I am going to try, but if I can't, I know I'll be done in May of 2012.

This time last year, I was training for my first half-marathon. Well, I did it, it took me 3 hours and 10 minutes. AND I signed up for another one, back into training and doing between 3 and 4 miles 4 times a week, plus some strength training twice a week. I did get a bike a Fuji 2.0, though I've not really had much of a chance to ride it, so the MS-150 will be out for at least another year. BOO!

I was also looking for a new job last year, that hasn't changed. I'm still looking and hoping that something will pan out soon.