Sunshine & Daisies

I’m in a much better mood today than I have been. I don’t know what the deal has been. It feels hormonal, like a bad mood switched on for a couple of days and then switched off. I never have PMS, and it’s the complete wrong time of the month for that anyway. I dunno. When I was pregnant, I always felt like I had pre-partum depression. I’m just backasswards I guess.

Work has been awful. I sort of feel trapped here, because there are not that many places in the area where I could work, and the other places would be a much longer commute than I have now. But mainly I was feeling like there were no other options. Then I opened an email from Monster (I still have this job search agent set up from when I was looking for this job back in 2003) and it had the perfect-sounding job! It was at a company that I had forgotten about. It would be software development. Again though, a long commute. But I really thougth through the options: I know I would be a good candidate for this other job & I would like it. The commute would be longer. The pay would be as good or better (I wouldn’t take a job with a longer commute for less pay). I’d leave about $12,000 worth of deferred stock on the table here, but that will always be the case since we get stock every year that vests in 3 years. So I will always have unvested stock, until I retire. Anyway, when I thought through all these things, I decided that the longer commute, plus the fact that I really really like my current boss, mean I’m not even going to apply for that other job. The things that are awful now are transient. Hopefully I will stick around longer than they will. So just realizing that, and realizing that there ARE options out there that I may or may not choose, makes this situation better. It just sucks to feel trapped. I think I went through this same thing in Dec 05. Maybe I will go through it every year, who knows.

Brian called last night. He and his girls are going to Cozumel in August, and flying out of DFW vs Tulsa would save him $700 on airfare. So he wanted to know if they could stay with us overnight the night before his flight. It’s funny how flights work. When we flew to San Francisco for our honeymoon, we had the travel agent check flights out of Tulsa vs flights out of DFW (we got married in OK). Flights out of Tulsa were cheaper, even though we had a layover at DFW! Weird. He also said Taylor is coming to a cheerleading camp in Denton (an hour north of here) in June. He said it ends on a Saturday with a little program so I told him to let me know what time. He didn’t realize Denton was so close I guess.

He said Taylor won "best eyes" at her awards ceremony. He was griping, "I wish she won best brain!" LOL

We are going to the zoo with Kristie & Thomas & their kids this weekend. We’ll probably have a cookout/swim at David’s parents Monday. It’s supposed to rain the whole weekend though so we’ll see. I’m looking forward to the 3 day weekend!