Digging in the dirt

[judecorp]

The weather was amazing today and although a lot of it was wasted running errands and cleaning inside, we did get to spend some time outside doing some yard work. Punk ran around the back yard while I raked and Jen used the leaf blower, and she climbed in leaf piles and had a general good time. Last summer I found a little plastic slide on the side of the road on the way home from a friend's place and it is getting good use right now, which is awesome because it was free! When things settle down I want to get some outside play equipment for Punk but for now she thinks that little free slide is the bee's knees.

The down side to the yard work is that after we came in, I was reading with Punk and pulled a little tick off my neck. GROSSSSSSSS. I wasn't expecting it at all because it is super early for ticks (hello, it's not even April!) and of course I am all paranoid now and will be on the lookout for bullseye rashes. Good times.

I also cleaned out the pantry to see what we have and it looks like we have quite a bit of canned tuna and some fun things like a vegetarian sloppy joe mix. Not the classiest food but we're set for a while. We also got some of those bags of frozen chicken breasts last week because they were buy one get one free. Sweet.

I didn't write much about it before because everything was all hush hush about the job, but ever since I gave my notice on the 17th, I have been spending a lot of time thinking about what God is trying to teach me with this experience. As a social worker, I have never been in a situation to take a job for the money and this was my first real taste of that. I knew it was a bad situation but I let the promise of a bigger salary and more time off lure me in, and I have learned my lesson. I didn't go into social work to get rich, so I guess I should start acting like it.

Comments

[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

1) Yes, do keep an eye out for the rashes; catching it in the rash stage means "10 days of icky antibiotics" ; not doing so means a lifetime of awful.

2) You don't tend to journal about your spiritual/religious side; it's kinda cool to see you do so here. And, yeah, I think that you have in you a strong call to things other than money...and that heeding that call will give you all you need.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

1) Totally. I am so on top of it. It's weird though because I haven't had a tick on me since I was a kid and I wasn't even thinking about it, and then I had a moment of shock like, "CRAP! I am someone's mom! I need to check my kid for ticks!!" Funny how that works.

2) You're right, I don't. Not for lack of desire, but lack of time. In fact, I often concoct long spiritual posts in my head at random intervals and then never get around to actually posting them.

[skatured.livejournal.com]

It is pretty early for ticks. Ugh, I am not looking forward to Morella' first tick which is bound to be this memorial day weekend at least. And speaking of free plastic slides -- our neighbor gave us their old plastic fun slide thing since they got one of those fancy new wooden swing sets. That was cool of them to think of us. I said I would never have craploads of plastic stuff in in our yard, but since it's in the backyard and it was ... FREE then it's okay. Ha ha. I think Morella will like it too.

[bookgrrrl.livejournal.com]

gah. i hate ticks. hate hate hate. which makes my job tricky, as i tromp through forest on a regular basis. alas.