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For anyone not following on Facebook, a couple of big updates to my personal status. After a couple of pretty tough years, I feel like I am emerging from the darkness.
My wonderful honey, David, who has been both my rock and my soft-place-to-land through all the nightmares of the last year with my parents proposed on November 14. We went out to dinner and he said “I have something very important I need to ask you” as he pulled the little velvet box out of his pocket. I could hardly wait for him to finish before I said yes. I thought I had missed out on the opportunity to marry my best friend, but some things are worth waiting for and I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I can’t imagine my life without him and his darling daughters. He is all the good things I miss about my dad…and more.
Four days later – after interviewing with seven different people – I got a good job offer at a really good company where I already have friends. Today was the last day at my old job and I start the new one on the first work day in January.
December will be for recovery, surviving my first Christmas without Mom and Dad, and wedding planning. We will be having an October wedding next year at the Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco. It is a beautiful Arts and Crafts church – a national historic landmark – built in 1895. The street view doesn’t do it justice. I will try to post some interior photos when I have a bit more time. I want to get as much planning done as I can before I start the new job, especially since we will also be looking for a house in the Spring/Summer before the wedding. I am looking forward to the day when we are both under one roof instead of an hour apart.
I guess good things come to those who wait.
“I now create a wonderful new job. I am totally open and receptive to a wonderful new position, using my creative talents and abilities, working for and with people I love in a wonderful location and earning good money.”
I have this little deck of cards called Power Thought Cards. Each one has some words of encouragement and I often use them in times of distress. Usually, I just pick one sort of at random and see how I can use it to change my thinking about a particular situation. Yesterday, I went through the deck and pulled out every card that I thought could apply to losing a job and finding a new one – with the idea of meditating a bit on one of them each day.
Since I have so many friends in communal distress over the same issue at the moment, I decided to post my card each day in the hope that it may encourage at least one other person as well. My best wishes to everyone. Change your thoughts, change your life.
Today’s thought: “I am safe; it’s only change.”
For the neighbors who don’t already know, my employer announced today that we are shutting down. Many people were let go today with no severance. I feel so horrible for them. I am on the transition team to get the clients to another payroll provider so I probably have somewhere between 1 and 3 months.
Other than the knot in my stomach for all my teammates who will not be there tomorrow, the main thing I feel is gratitude. Gratitude for the CEO who bought us 4 years of employment through some of the worst times in my industry. Gratitude for the CIO who tried so hard to find a way to save us. Gratitude for my dad who put away enough money to take care of mom for her last days with some left over to help me survive this until I can find another job.
I’m down, but not out.
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