This is what my boss said to me the last time things were really hectic at work. In April, I was in the process of hosting a team from Costa Rica, running a 9Health Fair and preparing for a work trip to Costa Rica - all in a span of 72 hours. Now, I've never run a marathon (and no plans to do that as of yet) but I know what a marathon is: an endurance race that tests and tries the body eventually taking it beyond its breaking point.
Well, never has that saying felt truer than since that day. The last five and 1/2 months have been CRAZY. Stuff has happened, stuff's gone down. Let me see if I can organize it as clearly and concisely as possible - with the caveat that things in life happen simultaneously and there are constantly balls in the air that we are juggling so clear and concise may not be entirely possible.
Right before those crazy 72 hours in April, I had submitted to my employer a proposal to create a new position (mostly doing what I do now) and hire me for it because of the transition happening with my job.
I returned from Costa Rica, and decided to give up soda (like manna from heaven that I haven't tasted since -that's right people, what you are about to read has been handled caffeine free) and then mid-May started a diet, to wit: 25 lbs lost and counting. During this time and until now, we all know that I fell from Grace and had to deal with our legal system.
What you don't necessarily know is that I was also looking for a job and going on interviews because of the aforementioned transition - while also continuing to work at my current employment. I've also been sick on and off with a couple of colds, a cyst that thankfully went away on its own but not before causing me tons of pain, extremely dry eyes due to which I couldn't get a current prescription for new contacts and also had to have my draining tear ducts 'plugged' up - literally, oh! and who can forget the root canal I had to have last week and the growth that was cut and burned off my big toe this week because well, life wasn't fun enough just yet!
After the deal with the toe (I know TMI just be grateful I'm not posting a picture), I came home after work to find that our home had been broken-into. Yep, broken-into. Thankfully, Hailey, Zoey and Aggie were not hurt and are fine. What was stolen? Several things, most of them I'm sure replaceable (still figuring out what's missing) but among those was my work laptop - with 3 years of work on it. Can you say UGH?!?!?!? Also, our sense of security, safety and sanctuary for our home seems to be MIA. What I gained? ANGER and I'm on the precipice of completely losing it, holding on by a thread (although ask DH and I'm sure that point is be debatable) and desperately looking for perspective. Because it doesn't end there folks, no, that would be too freaking easy. I leave for Costa Rica on another work trip in 9 days and have tons of work to re-do and replace, thanks asshats who stole my laptop. In 7 days I am completing my first 5k - which I hope will serve as catharsis and fun - lots of it. Thanks to my wonderful Team Boobees for doing this with me - I love you all and we haven't even started yet!
Oh wait! Somewhere in there, like between the cyst and the dry eyes I got a job! YES!! Okay, well kinda because my current employer has decided to keep me on as a permanent (non-grant funded) employee!!! We still haven't figured out exactly what I will be doing although it will involve more of what I already do so I'm still in a little bit of limbo but it is great news! See, not all of it was bad. And it really hasn't been all bad. DH and I had friends over for dinner and lunch throughout the summer to visit with, our friend Travis came and stayed with us for a little bit, DH and I lost weight, we've had a bounty of harvest from our garden, and we've had some interesting and fun adventures this summer and as I type Hailey is sleeping on my lap, purring and I can hear both Aggie and Zoey snoring not far from me.
See, this is why life is a marathon, because it requires us to endure until the end without quitting at any point before the finish line and without cutting corners. This doesn't mean that we can't complete the marathon, one sprint at a time.
