Day 1… a busy day.

Today was the first day at the new job… and the first day away from my beloved sites. The job was pretty boring, but it was all training. The woman I’m replacing showed me where every file she ever worked on is… explained stuff… I punched a time card, etc. Oh and I did not pack enough food and nearly starved. My own fault. I love, love, LOVE the woman who co-owns the company. She is AWESOME. It’s not like I have a boss. There will be a good bit of easy work… which is okay, because I’m getting paid a lot to do it. But I have total freedom to update their brand. She doesn’t even care to see it before I do it. She says “go for it, make it look good!” So I think this will work out just fine. As of now I’ll be coming in at 9:30am and probably leaving around 2:30pm. I’m allowed to feel it out and then tweak my schedule to fit around traffic and workload. Also awesome. Freedom and flexibility are oh so important to me. And did I mention how awesome she is? Her husband, the other half owner is a bit intense. Loud… rude… calls everyone “weird” and “odd”… a bit aggressive. But she totally cancels that out like a million times. Everyone else was nice as well. And I have a little window by my desk!

Today I also still have some freelance work to do. Which rocks too. Money honey. I went to dinner with A… we made up… she invited me over but I had to turn her down because of said freelance work. I’m going to make more time for friends. M and I had a couple good talks about our relationship and what needs to happen to make it great again. I love him so very much… the issue is that he is not well trained in the “ways of the boyfriend” and often times I feel like I am just a friend. I told him I don’t want to change him… this is who he is and it’s an issue of me being able to adapt to that. He insists that he wants to change and be more loving and affectionate. He wants to be a team… he wants to support me and make me feel special. We talked about ways to “reset” our relationship… get back on track and fix things. We’re going to plan a weekend getaway! I’m so excited. We’re thinking a drive up to a nice mountain place… hike… dinner… hotel… breakfast… hike… happy times. So I’m looking forward to it. We’re going to take our time with this move. Before it was all “July 24th!” and now it’s all “6 months or so… we’ll see.” But I think that’s good. We need to save, we need to fix things and I need to get my head straight.

It was hard… but I didn’t visit blogs or art sites or the like all day. I miss you all terribly…

Although I’m not thrilled to be an employee again, I think this will be good. Steady income, which if I “feel like working more hours and updated websites or branding pieces” can bring in a lot of money for me in a week… but also structure. I think if my head was clear and I was more sure of myself and my life, I wouldn’t have such an issue managing my time. But not having tons of work… not knowing what to do with myself, makes it hard to have routing. Now… I have to be somewhere at 9:30am. Which means I leave at 9am… which means I can go to the gym still… make breakfast… check email… and head out the door. I can schedule better. So that’s all for today folks… gotta get some work done!