Well, it's been three months since I've updated so I may as well get to it.
I don't even remember what I posted in the last blog and I'm not gonna go back and read it again so if I repeat myself, I apologize.
This has already been a fairly good year for me. Every year in my life has it's low points. I'm hoping that's the way most people are. I'm just choosing not to focus on them as much. Which I see as progress by the way.
I started the year with a good job...always a good thing. I work for Chrysler Financial. Chrysler moved all of their financial operations down to Roanoke, TX, to save on money and I was fortunate enough to be placed with them through a staffing agency in November of last year. We've kind of had to feel our way to doing things correctly, but we're slowly ironing out the kinks. I enjoy what I do. There's a lot of learning that goes into it. Unfortunately, they've started giving me the things that require some math. I'm not too fond of math. In fact, I hate math. Lucky for me, it's just simple adding and subtracting. I am basically an accountant that gets paid a entry level admin assitant's pay...which for the moment I don't have a problem with. It's just a place for me to be able to pay the bills at the moment.
I made a friend a work at the beginning of this year as well. He's an interesting character. I love him to death. He is an aspiring author. I love to read and I love to write. We talked about that a while back so he got into the habit of sending me any and all of the stuff he worked on so I could give him my opinion. He, in turn, asked me if I was writing anything since I seem to have a decent imagination. I told him I'd been messing around with a story I'd started telling my nephew about two and a half years ago when I was pregnant. He asked if he could read some of it.......and he fell in love with it. He told me he's my first bona fide fan and that he'd be upset if I didn't publish my story. I have always been told I have a talent for writing. I'm just now starting to take that particular compliment seriously. I've been writing this story for so long as a stress reliever. I never really intended to publish it because I never thought it was very good. Plus, it sounded like so many other books to me that I didn't want to just put another book out there that consisted of the same things rehashed and repackaged...but, my friend has perservered. He is not letting me get away with gently tucking it under a rug somewhere. He's connected like mad and is pushing for funding for me to get it edited and then sent to a publisher.
On top of my fantasy book, I got together with a girl from church and wrote out my adoption story. I wrote a very brief summary of what I wanted to say, but it conveyed my feelings and the message I wanted to get out rather nicely. I told my friend at work about it and he and his wife are excited for that to be published as well. We've run into a lot of hedges though. I was telling my friend about it and he made a way far out there suggestion that just might actually work. Within our work organization, there are smaller organizations for target groups. He's friends with someone that is part of the Women's Network at Chrysler. He wants me to talk to her and see if they'll maybe help me and this other girl pitch our idea for the book. He also started talking about speaking at different places and events. He thinks that my experience is such that I could have a good affect on a lot of people. He also thinks, for whatever reason, that there couldn't be anyone better suited than me to go around talking to girls about adoption simply because it's a topic that I'm so passionate about. We'll see I guess. I have a feeling that this year is going to be full of many big changes for me.
So that's my update for now. I'm trying to keep it fairly positive as the negative is starting to wear me down. There are so many things I'm looking forward to doing this year. I'll definitely post more if things go as planned. As it is, I'm exhausted. I have to work in the morning. Goodnight! :)
