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Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)Hello, everyone--not too much going on, dyed my hair red, actually using henna now. Everyone says they like it, everyone except my sister, but the only one I need to please is myself. New job chugging along... Well, I've landed a long-term temp job at a major pharmaceutical company, and it will last for one year. Apparently, they have to let you go after a year, due to some savvy temps suing Microsoft a while back and winning--they were temp status for years and years, trying to be absorbed into the company, but always having to stay temp with no benefits... I just re-read my previous posts, and have to admit I have spent the last few weeks in an anguish of sorts. Don't know why I let my anxiety rule my life, but I do. I went to an AA meeting yesterday, and I went to the same meeting last Sunday, and at both meetings I got the same message--I need to meditate... Can someone tell me how to fix the huge space that occurs either before my post or after? Merry Merry to all! I have secured a long-term temporary job for a few months, and have found the company to be a very pleasant place to work... A little bit of time has gone by since my last post, and I still have not found work. I am sending out letters and resumes now, but so far, no work. Tomorrow I will call temp agencies, and see if I can work this week... Well, my intuition was right. The new employer let me go this week. I was on a freelance basis with them for the time being, and they were treating it as a very long interview for a full-time job. I worked very hard there, but it wasn't enough... Thanksgiving weekend--lots of good food, lovely company, and some time for reflection. Last year at this time I did not know that my husband had a life-threatening, rare illness, and I was still at my old job--although sending out resumes, as the work-flow had dried up to almost nothing... Started a new job, can't do anything else right now except go to work, come home and go to bed. The transition is that hard, from sloth to overworked. Still, the work is interesting, and the days are flying by, which is better than the last job I had, where the workflow was so slow, the days themselves slooooowed down to a crawl... The broken finger is all healed--although terminally crooked, but at least I can type. Summer's almost over, I have one trip to NY for Labor Day weekend with my husband--we are staying in his daughter's apartment, while they come out here to stay and take care of the dog, chickens and cats... Hello to my legions of readers! The summer is hurtling along, and we are trying to stay cool in the hot days, and I am trying to paint in the heat. Some days I just read in the air conditioning. Today we got a break and I went out with some others to tour the Barns of Distinction... I am joyously, deleriously happy. I am free from worry, for some moment of grace, meditating, painting, writing, gardening--all with a broken finger, but since it doesn't hurt, it is only a minor inconvenience... Life is what happens when you are busy making plans. I broke my finger while walking my dog. A strange thing, breaking a finger. Seemingly a minoe inconvenience, but it complicates everything, well, most everything, but typing is certainly more difficult, as you can see... After 2 weeks of running around like a squawking chicken, I have come to see I am blissfully happy not working. I have an interview on Wednesday with a major pharmaceutical company, and will do my best at the interview, but if they offer me a job, plan to get my friend, a negotiating genius, to help me craft some negotiating points--part telecommuting is my goal... Well, it is good to remember the previous post, because I LOST MY JOB LAST WEEK!!!! Now, the great unknown looms. However, I have what i need today, and even more than. Meditation is the prescription so that I will know what next actions to take or not to take... I was very interested in the story in the New York Times Magazine section this past Sunday about studying the brain. In particular, the article mentioned the study of meditation and monks who had been practicing it for years... We are settling into Spring, and the grounds look better than they have in weeks. We have new drama in the chicken coop, and it is the way we respond that I know I could not be a farmer who kills animals... Spring came in full force with a week or so of unseasonably warm weather. The pastel beauty of the flowering trees and the tender green of everything else makes me swoon with happiness. Someone I know said that she takes the coming of Spring personally, and I understood that... Spring is Here!!! We are starting to warm up, and I have plants out in the coldframe on the porch every day. Also planted some early things in the greenhouse, still risky as nights can get pretty cold, and there is no heat there... My husband, in writing in the comments section of the last post, gave me permission to write about what we are looking at in his diagnosis of myelofibrosis--a rare blood disorder which is cured only through bone marrow transplant... It gets really hard to post on the weblog about personal things now. Because what I recently went through had to do with someone else, and how to write about it, without invading their privacy, I don't see how I can do that... This is the second try on this post. I tried to post one yesterday, and got an error message when posting, and lost all the writing. Started looking for another job a couple of weeks ago, sent out resumes to about four companies, heard back from one, but that seems to have evaporated for the time being... I still have my job, and we actually have work for me to do in the next few months. One person was let go, and the president of the company is taking over the business development. All of this allows for a bit more financial security for the next few months... Happy New Year to all!!!! We got through the holidays, sober, and now, a little fatter. Sugar is too irresistible during the holidays, and yesterday, New Year's Day, it was all over the place at the two gatherings we went to... Today is my birthday, and as usual, is cause for reflection. Having gone through a month of sadness and/or depression over the results of the election, I wish I could say that I have rebounded back to a better place... Happy Thanksgiving to all! ...
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