Get me off this merry-go-round!

Well, here I was just living my life peacefully, without a blog in the world, when all my friends start blogging and the next thing you know, I'm here, bitten by the blogging bug. There have been a few times over the past couple years that I'd almost been bitten but I managed to squeeze by unscathed ...you know, the Geo blog, and the ODWonn mega-blog. But this latest virus has been pandemic in scope, infecting all my cycling buddies in one fell swoop. Resistance was futile and I've now been assimilated.

So all my athletic friends are heading to the Kansas Ironman this coming weekend and I'm feeling like a big L when it comes to my training and fitness this year. I changed positions at work earlier this year and they asked me to get ready to move to Dallas. Things have been crazy with layoffs at least every quarter and everyone scrambling around the mulberry bush or the cobblers bench before "pop-goes-the-weasel". There's been precious little time between me trying to fix the house up to sell, learning my new job, and scrambling to keep survive the latest layoffs, to be consistent with any of my training. The only consistency has been going to see Rebecca twice a week for a workout session. Thank God for Rebecca!

Last week I made a whirlwind business trip to San Antonio leaving at 5:30 AM Wednesday morning and flying back late Thursday night. Then I had to leave at 7:00 AM Friday morning for a last-minute drive to Dallas for a noon meeting and then come back same day. It was insane. So on my way back home from Dallas I started thinking it might be time to get off this crazy merry-go-round, as in ......no Dallas, no more crazy job, no more late nights and early mornings, no more rushing around trying to escape the latest layoff.

You may be asking yourself "what will she do if she doesn't have the merry-go-round to cling to, how will she survive?" Good question! So I've been busy listening to Maggy as she gets all her ducks in a row with college and pursuing a nursing degree, and I've looked into some programs and schools .....I told myself it was mostly for her. But in the back of my mind I keep remembering a conversation I had with Lisa L. last year about how she quit work and went back to school to become an anesthetist. When she told me about it I was like "Wow, if I ever had the chance to ..." but you know, I suddenly realized that I have a chance right now. I will have some $$ in my fat little fist after I sell the house, at least enough to pay off my bills and my car, and enough left over to actually quit my job, move in with my mom for 2 years, and go for a nursing degree. It won't be easy, but it's not like life has been easy these past few years anyway. OK, everyone cross your fingers for me on this because I'm ready for Part Deux of my life to be filled with some REAL life.

Thanks for reading, I think this is going to be fun. Resistance is futile .....start blogging blogging blogging blogging