"Some Fantastic"

My oh my oh my....

So it's been forever and here's why. I spent the month of May in a cloud because my father was ill. But now he's fine, so that's good.

The week he got out of the hospital, I was informed of a full-time marketing position right here in Connecticut. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go back to work full-time since the freelancing had been going well, but I never shrug off an opportunity that has landed in my lap. I figured, I could talk to some people.

So on a Monday, I scheduled an interview for Thursday.

Now, rewind for a second. For a few months, I've really been hating my apartment. But I figured I should stay because I didn't want to deal with the stress and cost of a move...and besides, it's not like I was going to buy anything. So since I was going to be renting, it was just adding cost on top of cost and it wasn't worth it.

HOWEVER, this job prospect came up and in the three days that I was prepping for my interview I realized...holy crap! there's one HUGE benefit to going back to work full-time. I could probably *buy* a place.

So my mom and I looked at a condo that she knew was for sale by owner on Wednesday. She already had an offer on it, but she said she could hold out on accepting it until I knew the deal with this new "job."

That was on Wednesday. On Thursday, I interviewed and was offered the job on that same day.

On Friday, my mom and I visited every condo in my price range available at the complex that I liked and found the most perfect one. I put in an offer for it on Sunday. I accepted my job offer on Monday.

I started my job the next Monday. And then I took the trip to LA that I had scheduled in May when my father got home from the hospital. I got back on Wednesday from that. Came to work yesterday and today. And I'm off again on Sunday to South America for a business trip. I come back next Saturday. My closing is the Monday after that.

Then my cousin gets married that Friday. And I move the very next weekend.

There went June and July!

So that's where I've been. I won't be around for a while, but hopefully come August, I can get back to my regular updates and more amusing posts. I owe Pat some irreverent humor since he's been sorely disappointed in my blog humor thus far.

But the best news is that it seems (and I don't want to speak too soon), that I've emerged from a tunnel into a shining sun. It feels good to laugh again. And to feel joy radiating from my core...to not feel like I need to contract and protect it. It feels good to feel good again and to finally have some evidence that Life is on my side.