I am unemployed. Again. I guess it was too much to hope for that the first job I got outside of the home after choosing to quit a career to raise my children, would be the job of a lifetime where I could grow and learn and build on my expertise and apply my education, experience, wit and personality and soar. Instead it turned into the same thing every 3 days and sometimes I almost fell sleep because nothing was going to change at all. Here is the downside to working only 3 days a week, you are considered a part timer and no one is going to give you more responsibility or training. You are stuck doing grunt work forever, or at least for 9 months.
I took the girls ice skating on Thursday afternoon which was wonderful and exhilarating. Wonderful to escape the humidity and heat and have to wear a hoodie for a couple of hours. Exhilarating because at the age of 46 I not only can skate better than my kids, I didn't fall once. But then I got out of bed on Friday and my back aches. And this morning I can squat down but my knees won't allow me to stand back up. It means that either I need to quit ice skating or I need to do it more regularly.
The pool closes in 3 weeks and honestly we are sick of swimming. Never ever saw that one coming.
And Heidi leaves on Friday and we will miss her so much. It was like Christmas in summer having her with us for so long but I know she needs to go to college and I would like to have my closet back, so she is coming out of the closet, getting in her new little grey car, and zipping off to Washington where she will study hard and maybe we will get her back again next summer. She is under strict instructions to not zip too fast - or else she will get a speeding ticket.
And finally autumn is coming. As I stepped outside to walk the dogs this morning I realized that there was zero humidity (or at least zero humidity to me) and a light breeze and I could feel fall in the air. It was lovely.