I woke up this past Tuesday, October 1st and Penny wasn't feeling good so I called in sick. At 11am I received a call from my big boss and an HR person that I was being laid off. One of 110 people in a corporate restructure. I knew it had been coming as I hadn't been in a good situation since coming back from maternity leave. It was to the point that something had to give. What gave was my job. All day, everyone kept asking me if I was okay and surprisingly, I felt set free from a toxic situation. Mad of course but freed. I guess you really don't know how bad things are until the universe ejects you from a situation and that is how I feel. I feel that God took me out a bad situation. I am staying positive about the whole situation and looking forward to what the future holds. Most of all I am enjoying my time with Penny. This situation has given me the unique opportunity to be able to spend time with the dearest of dear little girls and for that I am grateful. Luckily, I had already experienced a layoff early on in my career so I didn't have to go through that freak out phase. The last time I was off for 6 glorious months and it changed my life for the better. I am looking forward to this doing the same.
Have you ever watched those TV Game shows where they have a couple of doors and behind one is a grand prize? Well, this weekend the hub and I found out what was behind our Door #1. The hubby and I are starting the beginning phases of landscaping our backyard. Our first step, was to clean out the area behind our garage. When we moved in, there was about 2 feet of walking space behind our garage the rest of the area was covered in vines. Vines were growing on the roof and generally it was a mess. Not wanting the vines to take over the roof, we I started to clear out the vines last fall. But after we cut a million vines with only a pair of clippers we gave up and decided to clean out the rest in the spring. Spring came around and we didn't do much until one day when I was sick a few weeks ago, I ran into our gardener. I showed him the mess and asked if he knew of anyone who could come clean it out. I could tell he was actually, quite happy for me to broach the subject of ...