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I have got SO much work to do, but if I don’t get this writ­ten down and clear my head, my day will just suck.

~ I gave my res­ig­na­tion at work on Mon­day.  I hate doing that.  Whether it’s for the right rea­sons or not, I just hate it.  My bosses, C and P, are great guys, but this job is very over­whelm­ing for 1 per­son and I don’t have the cod­ing skills they need.  Yes, I have a CIS degree, but my expe­ri­ence is in Marketing/PR, event plan­ning, etc.  I haven’t had a chance to train in where I’m lack­ing and I don’t see that chang­ing.  The only change that was com­ing down the pike is sales.  And I don’t do sales.  I have a fairly good rep­u­ta­tion for clos­ing deals, but I suck at bring­ing them in.  Besides, I don’t want to do sales.  And that’s really want they need.  No hard feel­ings are there…I ended up giv­ing them 2 full weeks then, 2 weeks at P/T if needed.  I don’t really have any­thing lined up.  I’ll just prob­a­bly do some V.A. stuff for peo­ple in town until I can find some­thing I want.  With both boys in school, I can dig into my job life a lit­tle more now.

~ The boys started school yes­ter­day.  Grem­lin tried to pull the “I’m shy” thing just as I was leav­ing, but other than that, he seemed to have loved it and was look­ing for­ward to today.  Old­man is try­ing really hard to shake off his 2nd grade fears and plow through to his 3rd grade year.  He had a great sum­mer — a real con­fi­dence boost.  But as soon as he walked into the doors of school, I saw him shrink inside him­self.  My heart just broke.  Half of me wanted to grab him and run to pro­tect him.  The other half of me wanted to shake him and tell him, “You are bet­ter than this!  Don’t let the comments/actions of these ele­men­tary kids weigh on you!  You are so funny and a joy to be around.…when you act your­self.” …sigh… First impres­sions of his teacher are good.  She’s very upbeat and encour­ag­ing.  His first day was good.  He’s thrilled that he has a ton of work to do and can’t wait to take the MAP test at the end of the year (weirdo!).

~ I’ve started swim­ming at the YMCA for this Tweight­loss chal­lange.  We’re in our 3rd week and I’ve only lost…well, let’s just say, it’s pretty dang pathetic!  I’m hop­ing the swim­ming will take me to the next level.  I’ve never been much of a swim­mer (I’m no Dara Tor­res), but I’m start­ing to dig it!

Ok…I feel like I can get back to work now.  Look­ing for­ward to catch­ing up on this blog thing after I’m done with this job.  In the mean­while, I have 50 gazil­lion clients to move to a new server.  Wish me luck!