He Got It!

Well, he got it! Thank you for all your prayers, best wishes, encouragement and hope. I’m a little nervous as it doesn’t pay as much as the old one, but he feels very positive about a good future with the company and, as disposable as network engineers are in the bigger companies, I’m hoping a stint with a small company may turn out to be more solid. We’ll see. I’m also a little nervous about the less well-known health insurance, but at least our doctor and hospital are listed in their network, so it can’t be all bad. My husband is happy and looking forward to starting on Monday. He says there’s a lot of work to be done there and it’s a small team so he’s ready for the challenge and relieved to be working again. I’m happy that he’s happy and glad he’s got something fulltime but wasn’t all that nervous because he did have that contracting position that would have carried him through until the end of the year with good pay. Never the less, not having a permanent position was stressing him out more than I realized because he is really elated to have a regular job again. He is the kind of person who likes something solid and stable to go to and likes to have a job that’s sort of a home away from home. He really truly just would like to have a job that he could count on and go to until he retires I think. He’s a loyal worker and would have fit in well with the work force of the fifties or whenever it was that workers stayed with their companies until they got the gold watch and pension. I, on the other hand, tend to get more bored with places and want to move on. How odd it is that I was with the same place for twenty years ultimately and he gets shuffled from place to place, given our differences of temperament. Maybe, though, I would be more like him if I had been severed so many times. They always get rid of the IT guys first.

I had my follow-up appointment with the surgeon today but I didn’t even really see the surgeon. I saw a med student or intern or something. My incisions are healing nicely she said and I’m coming along as expected. There’s some scar tissue built up behind the incision that is giving me the most pain and that will probably continue to hurt me until it settles down. The pathology on my gallbladder showed mild chronic something or other that I can’t spell but that meant basically that it was inflamed. It didn’t feel mild when it was in pain, but between the two really bad bouts, I guess you could say it was mild. Still, I can’t imagine what it must be like for those who have big honking gallstones! I must be a real baby if I got that sick from just chronic inflammation. I hope my symptoms will be done with now. I still have some nausea going on but maybe that’ll abate with time, at least I haven’t had any of that awful sickness that required the pain meds as I needed back over Labor Day. I’m hoping that all of that was the gall bladder and I’ll never experience it again. If it does come back, then it may be something to do with the surgery last December and that would be much more complex and annoying so I’m holding on to the gallbladder theory.

November is National Novel Writing Month. If you’re interested go here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ Bunches of people are signing up to write a 50,000 word novel between 11/1 and 11/30. It doesn’t have to be good, fully edited, etc. etc. it just has to be a 50,0000 word work of fiction. I’m going to try it. I don’t know if I can succeed. Even my erotica books were only 40,000 words. Although I never seem to run out of mind blather here in my diary, I actually I not terribly verbose when it comes to fiction. I’ve written much poetry and used to write short stories. My stories were brief and concise¦ even my erotica was sort of like that, so we’ll see how this works out. The rules of the game are that you can’t write a word before 11/1 but you can outline or make notes or whatever so I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, trying to develop some plot ideas in my mind, etc, but I haven’t done anything on paper yet and hold back until the right time. I’m looking forward to the challenge and it’s nice to have the official allowance to go ahead and plan to write crap. LOL Even at the website they warn you that they expect you to write crap but that’s what it’s all about, just to get writing.

Last, but not least¦ when I wrote about the movie, Earth, yesterday, I meant to give a link to IMDB (the Internet Movie Database). This is a great site where you can find out tons of info about any movie out there or anybody related to movies. Sometimes I forget that not everybody knows about all these great informative sites. If you ever want to find out about a movie you’ve seen or check out a movie someone recommends, you can just go there and do a search on it. For Earth, I would not recommend watching the trailer because it gives away too much. I still recommend this movie so highly I just cannot say enough. Even today I thought about the movie and some of the scenes several times. My husband got the movie, Ghandi, for me from the library so that will help me understand the times and the country better, but I really like Indian produced and acted movies and am looking forward to find Fire by Deepa Mehta (director). Anyway, the link for the movie database is http://www.imdb.com