Whew, glad that's over with! Have you noticed I've been keeping the low profile as of late? What, you didn't notice? Oh, well then, fine, never mind....
Seriously though I can finally and thankfully say, "No more!" to the whole laying low thing. Not that I'm one to have a particularly high profile in the first place, but things have transpired throughout the month so much so that I feel good about raising my head above the trenches again without fear of having my head shot off...so to speak...I'll explain.
Under most circumstances, I tend to look forward to the summer months, like most people in the world do, for the longer days of sunlight, the passing of the spring allergy season, and the chance to take some time off from work.
This year, was a little different, and not in the good, John Cusack, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy tries to win girl back and hilarity ensues good kind of different like in the movies...
Here's the deal. In all honesty work for me was in a death spiral, and after 7 years it had become clear that there was no future for me there. Now normally one does not take a leap of faith in the middle of what is categorized as "The Great Recession", but I did, and alas, it worked! I actually found a better paying job!
Unfortunately, that lasted all of 2 weeks and 2 days before they rescinded the offer of employment, no explanation given. As one might imagine I was pretty much freaked out, but just when you thought that the team was up against it, and the breaks were beating the boys, (and you can file this under the category of "Will miracles never cease?"), I found another job!
Fast forward to today, after 2 weeks and 3 days of being at the new job, I can say safely that I will be there for the duration, thus allowing me to breath a sigh of relief, and start looking again towards the future.
To give you a timeline of when all of this went down, this was from June 29th to August 16th. Total time unemployed, less than 3 weeks. Not bad in the grand scheme of things if I do say so myself, NOT that I'm one to gloat, because believe me I started to get pretty full of myself after landing the first gig, I've since been a lot more humble (and thankful to God) the second time around.
Oh, and in addition, as if I needed to add to the drama and make this period of time even more of a emotionally chaotic time for me, I formally proposed to Lana in Key West. Thankfully, she said yes.
So, where do we go from here? Well, the personal life will assume it's course, that's for certain, and as for the blogging, well I'm confidant I'll be able to post more frequently. I've got a lot of pent up "writing lust' to work out of my system, and let's face it, there's no shortage of things to cover here in Beautiful West Chester, Pennsylvania.
I'll let you know how it goes...
