Happy Candlemas!
Mood:  happy
Topic: Daily Eruptions
Happy Candlemas - the midpoint of winter! Hearing that Punxsutawny Phil saw his shadow doesn't disturb me quite as much this year as it has in years past - maybe because I live in North Carolina now and not Michigan? Plus the days have been flying by, so I know spring will be here in another blink. Time certainly does move differently when I'm working outside of my house forty hours per week, rather than working from home.

We found out this week that now that Hans's call center hours have been extended, he will be stuck on the closing shift every day until they hire more supervisory staff. When those people are hired, Hans better move into a day shift, because when he works nights I don't see him except on weekends. I'm asleep when he gets home, and he's asleep when I leave in the morning. It really sucks. He didn't open this call center, when no one from the company in Seattle would move here to take the job, to receive this kind of treatment. (It's more than just the scheduling that's making me feel he's not being treated well....) So I guess this means that for the next several weeks or months my off-time during the week is entirely my own, and if I don't achieve the things I set out to, I have no one to blame but myself. And maybe only seeing Hans on weekends will make the relationship feel more like it did when we were dating.... (This is me trying to see the silver lining, in case you missed that.)

I had several more ideas for things I want to write after talking to the publisher of a local healthy living magazine yesterday, and at least knowing what Hans's schedule is and knowing that it isn't going to change in the foreseeable future makes it easier for me to plan writing time into my week.

I'll try to post here more often, too. Maybe my own thoughts just don't interest me as much as they did a few months ago?