Happy Dance-tastic (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ne_today) wrote,@ 2009-06-29 09:35:00 |
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Update on the Funemployed Front
Matt and I have decided that the best bet for right now is for him to seek a Master's degree in something he would really like to do with the rest of his life. His time with his current company has been bittersweet, and that time ends today as he works his last shift from 6p-6a tonight. Tomorrow, he will begin researching options for going to UK in either physics or chemistry (I'm leaning towards physics, because I want to be married to a rocket scientist!)
Next Monday, we will begin moving into a less expensive home that we will be renting from a friend (and fabulous author we are delighted to know). This next weekend, we will be selling off about 40% of our possessions so that we can enter our new home clutter-free. It will be a cleansing experience to get rid of so much of the stuff I have let define me, and an exercise in learning what I *really* need, and what I do not. I will miss our current home. It has been a blessing and a curse to be a homeowner, but we cannot keep up with our mortgage.
I will be seeking a job at Starbucks, partially for the insurance, partially for the writing fodder. I am scared about the possibility of reentering the work force after so long, but I know I can handle it. It is within my capability to be just as fantastic as I want to be. And if fantastic means pulling shots as a barista? I'm ready to take that on.
We are beginning a new era of our life, friends. We will be much poorer than we have been in the past nine years of our marriage, but hopefully we will be happier too. Not that we've ever lacked on the happiness front, but who would say no to more?
More later, as I think it will be important to begin using my livejournal again.
xo,
Matt and I have decided that the best bet for right now is for him to seek a Master's degree in something he would really like to do with the rest of his life. His time with his current company has been bittersweet, and that time ends today as he works his last shift from 6p-6a tonight. Tomorrow, he will begin researching options for going to UK in either physics or chemistry (I'm leaning towards physics, because I want to be married to a rocket scientist!)
Next Monday, we will begin moving into a less expensive home that we will be renting from a friend (and fabulous author we are delighted to know). This next weekend, we will be selling off about 40% of our possessions so that we can enter our new home clutter-free. It will be a cleansing experience to get rid of so much of the stuff I have let define me, and an exercise in learning what I *really* need, and what I do not. I will miss our current home. It has been a blessing and a curse to be a homeowner, but we cannot keep up with our mortgage.
I will be seeking a job at Starbucks, partially for the insurance, partially for the writing fodder. I am scared about the possibility of reentering the work force after so long, but I know I can handle it. It is within my capability to be just as fantastic as I want to be. And if fantastic means pulling shots as a barista? I'm ready to take that on.
We are beginning a new era of our life, friends. We will be much poorer than we have been in the past nine years of our marriage, but hopefully we will be happier too. Not that we've ever lacked on the happiness front, but who would say no to more?
More later, as I think it will be important to begin using my livejournal again.
xo,
Renee
