Good/Bad.... Who cares! It's life!
Hey all! I'm hesitant to start with the usual, "Well, I know it's been a while since I've posted" (because really it has, but...) because I was reading earlier this week about the decline of blogging. I don't know the stats off hand, but they were talking about how many Blogs and MySpace pages/profiles were created in the past few years and how few have actually been maintained with any regularity. It was pretty shocking to know that this was a Fad that caught on a while back and now is mostly a waste of good memory on a server in many instances.
Anywho, I really have been meaning to update, but honestly haven't wanted to tell "The World" about a lot of the things going on for me lately. Let's just say that life has been pretty interesting.
So, To update quickly, I have a new job that I'll be starting on Monday! I'm excited and a little nervous, but it's definitely a step up in the corporate world which will hopefully allow me to make at least some good lateral moves down the line until I decide what I want to be when I grow up. =c)
Yep, I'll be a Data Security Administrator for a company in Minneapolis. I don't have a heck of a lot of I.T. experience, but I guess I impressed them enough to be hired. It's amazing. They must be nuts to hire an old queen like me. (kidding.) It's actually a pretty good ego boost and proof that the promises I've been hearing so much about for the past 15 months do actually start to happen. Little stuff adds up very quickly.
Drama in my life... This past week I was in HELL. Really. Well, no, not really but it sure felt like it. On Sunday I was eating Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream and crunched down on a chocolate chip. My tooth started aching and I thought I had cracked it.
Monday I made a dentist appointment because it really started to hurt, well it turns out the tooth itself is mostly fine but I was in desperate need of a Root Canal. I called the Root Canal specialists and they made me an appointment to get in next Wednesday (A week and a half to wait). Well, The aching in my tooth escalated to a dull throb by Monday night. I tried to sleep and couldn't even with the prescription they gave me. I went to work on Tuesday, the pain subsided temporarily then came back with a vengeance in the evening.
I will say that actually splitting my head open when I was a kid didn't hurt as much as this did. I thought the phrase "Blinded with pain" was just an overstated/over dramatized euphemism. Well, it's not. I literally couldn't see at points during the night because my eyes refused to focus. It made me nuts! I was stomping around my apartment (once again thankful that there is not an apartment under mine), banging my head on the walls, praying to have the pain stop. Flashes of grabbing a set of pliers to yank the tooth out, going to get a drink to numb it, even opening a vein to get rid of the pain went through my head. It was like nothing I've ever experienced. I didn't realize I could be that nuts with a little provocation. Kinda made me realize I'm not so immune to these thoughts as I thought and made me thankful I've learned some tools to get through times like these.
Anywho, I went to work on Wednesday, called the specialist, told them what was going on and they scheduled me for an emergency appointment. THANK GOD! So, now I have a temporary filling with some stuff under it to kill off the nerve that isn't dead, and I feel like I've gone through the pit of hell, climbed mount purgatory and am close to heaven. It feels SO GOOD to not be in pain like that!
Whew.
So, tonight I went to a meeting then went to fellowship afterwards. I really enjoyed sitting with my friends tonight. People I don't get to chat with too much, but whose company I really enjoy. They had me laughing more tonight than I have in the past month! It really was great to be with them. I gotta start doing more stuff with them outside the meetings.
So... time for "THE LIST"
I'm grateful for my friends.
I'm grateful the pain is gone.
I'm grateful I have good dental insurance!
I'm grateful for the support the people at work have given me in my transition.
I'm grateful that I can laugh at stories of sitting on a crapper, blogging and eating all at once.
I'm grateful I'm not the only one with a twisted sense of humor.
I'm grateful that I'm starting to step outside myself more often to experience life.
I'm grateful for the support my friends have given me over the past year.
I'm really grateful that "the promises" really DO happen when we stick with this program.
I'm grateful to be alive to experience all the good and the bad that makes up life.
Note to self: Start telling the people in your life that you love them more often. You really do love them for who they are, so why not tell them. They'd appreciate it just as much as you would. (Try to hold back on the waterworks while doing it, tends to frighten ppl.)
=c)
Hugz.
JD
Anywho, I really have been meaning to update, but honestly haven't wanted to tell "The World" about a lot of the things going on for me lately. Let's just say that life has been pretty interesting.
So, To update quickly, I have a new job that I'll be starting on Monday! I'm excited and a little nervous, but it's definitely a step up in the corporate world which will hopefully allow me to make at least some good lateral moves down the line until I decide what I want to be when I grow up. =c)
Yep, I'll be a Data Security Administrator for a company in Minneapolis. I don't have a heck of a lot of I.T. experience, but I guess I impressed them enough to be hired. It's amazing. They must be nuts to hire an old queen like me. (kidding.) It's actually a pretty good ego boost and proof that the promises I've been hearing so much about for the past 15 months do actually start to happen. Little stuff adds up very quickly.
Drama in my life... This past week I was in HELL. Really. Well, no, not really but it sure felt like it. On Sunday I was eating Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream and crunched down on a chocolate chip. My tooth started aching and I thought I had cracked it.
Monday I made a dentist appointment because it really started to hurt, well it turns out the tooth itself is mostly fine but I was in desperate need of a Root Canal. I called the Root Canal specialists and they made me an appointment to get in next Wednesday (A week and a half to wait). Well, The aching in my tooth escalated to a dull throb by Monday night. I tried to sleep and couldn't even with the prescription they gave me. I went to work on Tuesday, the pain subsided temporarily then came back with a vengeance in the evening.
I will say that actually splitting my head open when I was a kid didn't hurt as much as this did. I thought the phrase "Blinded with pain" was just an overstated/over dramatized euphemism. Well, it's not. I literally couldn't see at points during the night because my eyes refused to focus. It made me nuts! I was stomping around my apartment (once again thankful that there is not an apartment under mine), banging my head on the walls, praying to have the pain stop. Flashes of grabbing a set of pliers to yank the tooth out, going to get a drink to numb it, even opening a vein to get rid of the pain went through my head. It was like nothing I've ever experienced. I didn't realize I could be that nuts with a little provocation. Kinda made me realize I'm not so immune to these thoughts as I thought and made me thankful I've learned some tools to get through times like these.
Anywho, I went to work on Wednesday, called the specialist, told them what was going on and they scheduled me for an emergency appointment. THANK GOD! So, now I have a temporary filling with some stuff under it to kill off the nerve that isn't dead, and I feel like I've gone through the pit of hell, climbed mount purgatory and am close to heaven. It feels SO GOOD to not be in pain like that!
Whew.
So, tonight I went to a meeting then went to fellowship afterwards. I really enjoyed sitting with my friends tonight. People I don't get to chat with too much, but whose company I really enjoy. They had me laughing more tonight than I have in the past month! It really was great to be with them. I gotta start doing more stuff with them outside the meetings.
So... time for "THE LIST"
I'm grateful for my friends.
I'm grateful the pain is gone.
I'm grateful I have good dental insurance!
I'm grateful for the support the people at work have given me in my transition.
I'm grateful that I can laugh at stories of sitting on a crapper, blogging and eating all at once.
I'm grateful I'm not the only one with a twisted sense of humor.
I'm grateful that I'm starting to step outside myself more often to experience life.
I'm grateful for the support my friends have given me over the past year.
I'm really grateful that "the promises" really DO happen when we stick with this program.
I'm grateful to be alive to experience all the good and the bad that makes up life.
Note to self: Start telling the people in your life that you love them more often. You really do love them for who they are, so why not tell them. They'd appreciate it just as much as you would. (Try to hold back on the waterworks while doing it, tends to frighten ppl.)
=c)
Hugz.
JD
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