Waiting and waiting and waiting…

In July I interviewed for one of the positions I want in my agency.  This Wednesday I interviewed for the second.  I think that the person making the selection in each case has made their recommendation to their boss (who must approve.)  Well, it is the Government, ya know.  Nothing works fast.  Long story short, I hate waiting to find out if I bombed an interview.  There are times when it would just be nice to hear they have no intention of considering you, the interview was just a courtesy… if that is what it was.  But, that doesn’t happen.  Instead, you wait.  Maybe I’ll find something out this next week. **crossing fingers**

It is hard to concentrate on other things when issues are hanging over your head.  While waiting on the outcome of my job future is a pain, I must admit that the familial front is the more daunting of the issues.  What truly pains me is that my baby…repeat…MY BABY starts high school 10 days from now.   When he was born, this day seemed so far off.  Seems like only yesterday he was in the infant seat coming home from the hospital.  *sigh*  On top of that there are daughter and mother issues.  Separate.  My daughter and then with my mother.  **bigger sigh**

I think I am due a vacation.  I mean away from everyone and everything.  No cell phone to be bothered with, no laptop to get email that can bother me, etc.  I would have to take the AlphaSmart though.  When I wasn’t sleeping, I could write.  I’ve done some of my best stuff in hotel rooms when I travel for work.  Amazing what solitude in a town where you know no one can do for you.  

I’ll really need to figure a way to do that…

I took a brake…uh, I mean, break

I haven’t blogged since the 4th of July.  Why, you ask?  Don’t care, you say?  I’m sure a bit of both is true.  However, I’ll tell you.  Kinda.  First, I have had a busy summer at WORK.  I mean the job that pays the bills.  Then I took a week and had family around for about 10 days. 

On Friday, my sister and her hubby arrived.  They left on a cruise on Saturday and left my 16-year old nephew with me.  On Sunday, my son and nephew started All-State Choir Camp at TCU.  They weren’t staying there, so I had to drive them back and forth.  On Tuesday, my dad and step-mom arrived.  It was my dad’s birthday, so I cooked.  On Wednesday, the boys finished choir camp with a concert which we all went to.  Headed home and left for Arkansas by 1:30 in the afternoon to go to Crater of Diamonds State Park.  Hotter than heck, but it was fun trying to find a treasure to take home.  Of course, we didn’t find anything.  But, we plan to go back and try again.  When it’s cooler and not 105 out there on all that bare dirt with no trees!

We came home on Friday.  Hung out on Saturday until my sister and brother-in-law flew in.  We all had dinner together.  I never knew my house could sleep so many people at one time.   They all left on Sunday.  I needed a vacation to recover from my vacation.  I swear, one of these days I’m going to take a vacation to do abso-freakin-lutely nothing!  Not cook, not clean, just read and sleep.

So, mental tiredness and actually being occupied has kept me away.  Now, however, it is time to get back to business.  I mean the business of writing.  I know, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I’m sure.  I have a MS that is almost finished.  If I could just make myself get those last pages done, I could start the editing process and make my goal of submitting it to a publisher by November.  I will.  I am determined to do so, along with losing 30 or so pounds!  I will do that too.  Lori Borrill, a Sizzling Pens author who writes for Blaze, is my inspiration. 

My goal is to lose it by the beginning of November.  That is almost 3 months away.  Surely I can do it.  I’ve done it before.  Of course, I was 13 years younger.  I kept it off for years.  I could shoot myself for letting myself get this way after all of that hard work back then.  But, I will prevail!!!  **praying to the weight loss God!**

Keep you posted on the MS and the weight.  Both are going to happen!  * Note to self…repeat 30 times every day. *