I'm reeling.
In the past week, I've flown to Massachusetts and back, was sick and then recovered, accepted one job and quit two, and been added to a digital scrapbooking creative team.
Okay, backing up a bit...
Remember when I was all "good vibes" and you were all "on their way!" and then I was all "they worked!" and you were all "hooray"?
Right. So, I applied for a job as a part-time librarian at the New Lenox Public Library (NLPL), about 30 minutes from our house. Then things started to get weird. And by weird I mean interesting. And by interesting I mean -- oh, I'll just tell you.
One Monday a couple of weeks ago, I woke up and couldn't do it. I couldn't go to work. I took a sick day and sent my kid and my husband off. But my kid was feeling strangely and in that way that mothers do, I couldn't let it go. So I picked her up and took her to the doctor's. She was fine, and now that she'd been sprung from day care there was no way she was going back. So I took her to the pool.
(I'm getting to the job part, I promise.)
While at the pool we ran into some friends of ours, and we were talking and I mentioned the job at NLPL and she said, "Oh, my God! I have a friend that works there! I'll tell her you're applying for the job."
Not only did her friend work at NLPL, but it was her job that was available -- she was transferring to another department in the library. One thing led to another and I got an interview. And a week later, as I was trying to nap but couldn't turn my brain off, NLPL called and offered me the job. It happened so quickly my head's STILL spinning.
Now, about the digital scrapbooking thing... it seemed inevitable that my reintroduction to the scrapbooking world would lead to the digital realm. When I discovered it, it was like... eureka! I can be creative and still stay on my computer all day! FANTASTIC! I was quickly addicted.
When this whole job situation started looking more serious I considered applying to a creative team to support my habit. Digiscrapping is cheaper than traditional scrapbooking, but there are still things I'd like to buy. And that means money. Which is about to be in very short supply around these parts. Being a part of a creative team would mean I would be given products to use in layouts used to advertise designers. I thought I had no chance. My online portfolio has four layouts in it. That's it. I'm not a big presence on any of the forums, and I threw my blog together in a night.
So, yeah. I was totally shocked yesterday when the email came through telling me I'd been accepted to a team.
And now I'm here. Facing some big changes and making some decisions.
I have a new blog. I started it initially as a place to post layouts but now that I'm on a team, I think that I'm going to make it my main blog. Which means two things:
- monkey girl is going away. I'm not sure when -- probably when I can download the content and back it up. But it is going away.
- because the new blog is public, more of my life will become private. I'm really struggling with that right now. I hate writing there because it feels so stiff and lame. I've grown comfortable writing here, and I'm sure I'll get that way over there too, but it'll take some time.
- the good news is that there's a feed with the new blog, so subscribe!
I'll be sure to come back here and tell you when I'm wrapping up, but in the meantime, I'm going to be spending a lot more time on the other blog, so come visit me there.
