The last words in my last post were "someone please make time go faster." I should watch what I ask for. It seems like since I penned those words, life has been flying past me at unreal speeds. If I were a super-hero, I would wish my superpower to be . . . ah, no. Be careful what you wish for. Remember?
The last several days, though quite full of activity, have been splendid. On Friday I went for my second interview at Herregan distribution. Well, I thought it was a second interview. It turns out, it was actually a job offer. Clearly, I took the job. I'm working in the front office. While my title is Costumer Service Representative, my job is really a kind of a cross between reception and costumer service. Herregan is a flooring company and they are located in Elk Grove Village. It's a small company and has a very comfortable feel so far. We'll see if that continues. I'm really quite excited. Yay God! What I find amazing is that I was only officially unemployed for a week. I start tomorrow at 8am and I cannot wait to see what God has in store for me.
On Friday night I went out with friends. We went to dinner at Asiago and then to Caribou and finished off the night bowling; it was a good time. I missed Vi and it was good to be reminded (ten hundred times) that I'm robotic by Bill. Greg said that he'd have to start keeping track of how many references Bill made to my battery. Bill's a great one for that. If you ever want/need material when Energizer and Bionic woman get old, make sure to talk to Bill. I, for one, had a great time. I hope everyone else did too.
Saturday was a day of anger. Not really for me. But I vicariously experienced it for and with my best friend. He had no right to do what he did to her. It was just not fair. Anger! So we retaliated. By getting dressed up (we both looked pretty dang good, if I may say so myself :-P) and going out. Only to come face to face with the reason why we have never really got into "the bar scene." Or really ever did it at all. I've never understood the value of a fake ID, but about half the people in that place certainly did. I guess when you ask a younger sibling for advice about where to go out, you should expect something like what we happened upon. However, I do have one note about Bandito Barney's. The food, provided by a place called Francesco's, was incredible. By 11:30, we were both ready for bed. Ah, the life of the "young."
The rest of this weekend I spent with my family. (Well, at points this weekend that term is more loosely defined I guess.) It was just what I needed to be reminded of how much I need my friends to balance out the insanity that is my family. "Peas of the same pod." I understand that all families are dysfunctional. And here I would like to insert a small illustration of one more manifestation of my family’s dysfunctionalism. Now, this is merely my opinion, but when a 76 year old woman has surgery to remove a cancerous mole from her face, I would think that her children and grandchildren would show a little respect and concern over the situation. Instead several people in my family displayed shock and disgust that she would have something removed from her face without knowing whether it would heal well cosmetically speaking. Please people. Please. I love my grandmother. How she manages to do this - mother, grandmother, great-grandmother this family - I'll never know.
All I know is that every day, I am going to be careful what I "wish" for and that already I'm praying HARD for the people that I will eventually affect as a mother should God choose to bless me with a family.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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