Happy New Year???

Well I know that it's been months since I wrote anything & I thought that I would start today...

I am proud to say that I am now 6 months without smoking! I can officially be around it with no inklings of desire to rip it out of their hand & starting back up! That's amazing! I did have a week & a half off from my day job from Dec 24th - Jan 5th - I wish I could say I finally finished my trim painting but alas, no... I did manage to work a bunch more at the restaurant & stash away an extra $600 in fun money for myself! I am super proud of myself for doing that. So minus the wretched fever that I came down with on NYE it seemed like I finally started to get things right!!! Well there is a small bump in the road now...

My company announced yesterday that they have gone into a Merger agreement with a much larger company. I am not a gloom & doom person & so I am actually quite happy about this decision. I have been spinning my wheels at work lately & my only real reason for not starting a job search earlier is that I have 2 big vacations coming up soon, I need to refinance my mortgage and don't want my time at a new job to reflect negatively on that & I really enjoy my coworkers. So I guess this is just the catalyst that I have needed to finally move in the right direction for myself. I feel bad cause there are a lot of people here at work that are taking this news pretty hard. It's not like we are all going to be kicked out tomorrow but there is also no available timeline for them to look at to plan. I guess due to my age I find this not to be the biggest problem I will have, I am also driven enough that I know that if I had to I could work FT at the restaurant (which would delight my boss there but not me).

So that made the start to the New Year a little bumpy... I am a hopeless optimistic & I know that ultimately I will be fine. I think that this is nice though. I would love to get into a new place closer to home, who knows maybe work at the restaurant a bit more... So if you know of anywhere looking for an Executive Assistant with an amazing work ethic & a ton of personality let me know!!!