NoJoMo Day 1

I’ve never done NoJoMo before, but I’m gonna give it a try this year.  I can’t guarantee I’ll always have something interesting to say, but I’ll do my best.

Had a job interview today, and it went really well….I really liked the place!  It’s working in the legal department for the UAW.  I think it’d be a really good fit, but it’s in God’s hands.  I’m also waiting for my school books so I can finish up the medical billing and coding online classes I started last year but never finished.  I look at it this way…..if I get the job, great.  If not, then that means God’s telling me that I need to finish up my schooling and work in the medical field again…..get out of the snake pit that is the legal field.

So several months ago I found out that my sister had fallen off the wagon….and had actually been off the wagon for quite some time.  This all came to light when she tried to commit suicide.  At first I was a sobbing wreck and was feeling guilty…..guilty that I hadn’t seen her texts, hadn’t been a better sister, blah blah blah.  Then, after realizing she had been lying to me, to everyone, for months, I was PISSED!  I know, addicts are liars and manipulators….I know that.  But she had us all (except my dad and stepmom) convinced she was clean and sober, and I was always sticking up for her and defending her to our dad and stepmom.  I felt like a fool….and didn’t appreciate it one little bit.  So we didn’t speak for a while.  She went to the hospital, then to a psych hospital.  The first few days she was there it was the same ol’, same ol’.  After about a week there, my mom was visiting and Stacey looked at my mom and said "If I’m ever going to get well, then I can’t lie anymore.  I’m an alcoholic and a drug addict."  My mom about fell over, because Stacey has never, NEVER, admitted she was a drunk or an addict….not even during her sober periods.  Since she got out of the hospital, she’s been attending AA every single day, she has a sponsor, and about a week ago she got her 90 day coin….90 days totally clean and sober.  I am so proud of her!  🙂  She’s different this time…..there’s a fire in her again….a fire for God, and a fire to stay clean.  Even my dad and stepmom have noticed….and she’s never been able to bullshit them. 

So I want to get a pet….either two kitties or a puppy.  Since I’m not working right now, this would be the perfect time to get a puppy, since I’d be around to walk it, etc.  I’m slowly working my husband around to it.  I may have to put out a few more times…lol. 

So that’s it for today.  I have more to talk about, but I have an entire month to do it in.  Hope you are all well!!  xoxo