I have started officially started training for my work and I must say it is going well. I am currently learning all about SNAP, if you don't know what that is look it up. I have decided not to go into great length explaining work as it tiresome and lengthy to do so, so if I say look it up its your choice to do so.
Today I was working on the computer system I will be using on a daily basis for work and it hit me that I might just enjoy this job. Now some of you have heard me complain about my job, some have heard me say don't ask me about my job and some have heard me say "well there isn't much to say its a job". I think today that might have changed....no it did change....I am learning so much I am sure my brain is physically growing inside my skull or maybe that is just the headache from not drinking enough water but whatever it is, I feel I have turned a corner.
Back to the computer system I am not going to explain it, its a big system and crazy at that but as I was working on it I found myself loving it so much I told my trainer "I find this addictive" she looked at me like I was insane and well maybe I am she said " I have never heard anyone say that". You see I just didn't want to stop working I would have kept going and going, I had to make myself. I was the last person to leave for the day and it was FRIDAY!!! Crazy right, I thought so to.
Training will go on for another 2 weeks and I am looking forward to it and then back to the trenches...And I worry about that but lets just save that for another day and end with today was a great day:)
Friday, July 25, 2014
Monday, July 14, 2014
Home is Where the Heart is
They say home is where the heart is and right now my heart is in two places (well that's a lie, it will always been in many places) but for now it feels like two. You see I left my husband back in Portland to wrap up our life there and I am here starting our new life. Yes, I miss my man but this isn't what this post is really about.
Its about where do you call home, where does you heart call out to when you feel lost, sad and alone. For me I was never sure because my family was every place coast to coast all across the nation but I have had some time alone, time to think and time to find me.
You know what home is a place some of us search our whole life for, some of us its the place we grew up, some its any place they lay their head at night and others its always inside of them.
For me I have always made a house but never quite a home. See to me home is about more then a place to live its the lives you touch around you, the impact of a community and its simply about people.
I called Portland, Oregon home for seven years and I felt like it was the place for a time but I always felt something was missing. And no it isn't family, you know what it is? Its what you put into the life by this I mean the effort. For the first time in all the places I have lived I feel I am putting myself out there making that effort to connect with people. Its great and you know what people are reaching back. Do you see this is what building a community is.
Aside from that......There is one key thing about Austin, Texas that wasn't in Portland that I needed its culturally diverse and eclectic. I find I can be me, truly be me, say things and it doesn't offend others, its me being me but I never felt that I could be in other places. I was told I was to loud, harsh and too out spoken. I am still learning about this place and maybe once again its newness makes me feel connected or its warm here and that makes me happy as hell, even if its hot as hell.
Whatever this feeling these crazy ramblings I am having all I know and all I care about is "Texas is my home right now and my heart is in it and I am damn happy about it"
Its about where do you call home, where does you heart call out to when you feel lost, sad and alone. For me I was never sure because my family was every place coast to coast all across the nation but I have had some time alone, time to think and time to find me.
You know what home is a place some of us search our whole life for, some of us its the place we grew up, some its any place they lay their head at night and others its always inside of them.
For me I have always made a house but never quite a home. See to me home is about more then a place to live its the lives you touch around you, the impact of a community and its simply about people.
I called Portland, Oregon home for seven years and I felt like it was the place for a time but I always felt something was missing. And no it isn't family, you know what it is? Its what you put into the life by this I mean the effort. For the first time in all the places I have lived I feel I am putting myself out there making that effort to connect with people. Its great and you know what people are reaching back. Do you see this is what building a community is.
Aside from that......There is one key thing about Austin, Texas that wasn't in Portland that I needed its culturally diverse and eclectic. I find I can be me, truly be me, say things and it doesn't offend others, its me being me but I never felt that I could be in other places. I was told I was to loud, harsh and too out spoken. I am still learning about this place and maybe once again its newness makes me feel connected or its warm here and that makes me happy as hell, even if its hot as hell.
Whatever this feeling these crazy ramblings I am having all I know and all I care about is "Texas is my home right now and my heart is in it and I am damn happy about it"
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Happiness, Music and find that place
Its been some time since I went to a concert or at least it seems that way. I was invited to a show and little did I know that this show was going to show me what it means to really love what you do. An old family friend picked me up on his motor bike (I really just wanted to say that it sounds awesome motor bike) better than motorcycle I think. We went to see Old Crow Medicine, Wheeler Brothers and Ray Wiley Hubbard and what a show it was. these guys love what they do and I mean really love what they do. They shined happiness from the stage, it made me smile to see a musician really happy to be up there. I can't remember the last show that I went to that they were so sticking happy that it made y me want to be happy too. These musicians played from 7pm till 11pm. Here is a little taste
Ray Wiley Hubbard
I wonder if its the hot Texas air that brings the beauty out in people, or Austin and its simple uniqueness, I am not sure but there is something in the air here. Maybe its just newness of being here but I don't think so. I have been doing a lot of thinking on it and.... I like whatever it is, for the first time in my life I feel like I am right were I am meant and supposed to be. An the most important key is that I feel I fit in here. I have lived many places and never once felt like I fit in and here "In Texas of all Places" I never feel weird or out of place and I love it.
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