Not much time to blog this morning. I have my daughters every Thursday so it's my morning to get them up and off to school. I LOVE Friday mornings even if it's hectic. I would do this every day if I could. I want to do this every day.
In fact, I told a couple people last week that losing a job is nothing compared with going through my divorce. I lost having my daughters every day. That still hurts. The one thing that kept me at the Register Star these past three years was the fact I had four weeks of vacation and could take it in the summer and spend lots of time with them. This summer alone, we went to St. Louis, Lake Michigan, Lake Geneva, Williamsburg, Va., and Washington D.C.
Plus, I had a flexible schedule and can pick them up from school every day. Every day I get at least 20 to 30 minutes with them. I don't feel disconnected at all.
The one time I've gotten emotional during this period was when one of the people I was meeting with said it was going to be hard for me to negotiate even two weeks of vacation and leaving every day at 3 p.m. for an hour -- even if I delayed my lunch -- would be frowned upon. I might be able to work in something where I did it twice a week.
I realized that I think but hearing it hurt. When I told my 15-year-old summers were going to change, she got emotional.
Again I know I can't totally control those things if I start with a new company, but it does have me thinking about a couple of options where I'd have control over my schedule. I'm going to begin looking into those options today.
I have no meetings today other than morning breakfast with Karen, lunch with the 12-year-old at 1:15 p.m., pick the girls up at 3:30 p.m. and then run the scoreboard at Jefferson football tonight. I LOVE that part-time gig. Even if I won the lotto tomorrow -- which is a joke, I don't play -- I'd keep the Jefferson job.
And the Reds beat the Cubs -- despite Jorge Soler, run Billy Hamilton run -- so all is right in my world.
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