I have been very busy the last week or so.  I am still trying to close down my corporation and running into block after block, but I continue to persevere.  Once again my representative with the profit sharing plan company I am working with is no longer at the company and I have anew rep.  Just when I thought I was on the home stretch, this happens and I feel like I am starting over again.  The good news is that I have a banking rep lined up to help me so once I get the go ahead, I can move forward somewhat quickly.

I start a new job on Tuesday.  It is a contract to hire, so I am still a little apprehensive.  I am going to be programming in RPG which is a weak language for me, so it will be a hard road to get up to speed.  I am very excited about the job even though I will be making a little less than I was making before.  It is still a lot of money all things considered.

The Sunday school teaching thing is also going well I think.  Today the kids were a bit restless, but I kind of expected that since the weather has been fairly nice the last couple of days.  If they were older I would have expected more, but since they are only in third grade, I thought they did well.  They actually participated in the discussions and were active.  I think they are taking advantage of my niceness a little bit, but if they get the information. then I am OK with that.  I need to come up with something more engaging for my next class in 2 weeks.

My volunteer work/part time employment at the local food bank has really been fun.  I really enjoy solving people's problems.  Since I started coming in twice a week in the afternoon, I have been able to do a little more follow up and find out if what I am doing helps.  I was so excited when one lady who I had helped set up a projector and connect to the network for a presentation said that everything worked great.  The last time she did a presentation, the connection to the network failed and they had to resort to printed handouts.

I went shopping today to get some clothes for work.  I really hate shopping these days.  I am not that excited about the current fashions and being short and in between waist sizes makes it really unfun.  They don't make a 35W/29L pant so I either have to go to a 34 waist and be snug or a 36 and be loose.  Normally I opt for the smallr, but this time I went with 36.  We'll see how it works out.  My other concern is that I lost weight when I was laid off, and I am afraid I will gain it back.  I am already feeling a little bigger.  i should have been able to fit into the 34 waist pants better than I did.

I am wondering about potential snow issues.  The weather team isn't able to give anything definite yet, but there is talk that there might be bad weather tomorrow night/Tuesday morning.  Since I am starting Tuesday, I don't know what to do if there is some question whether the manager I am supposed to meet is not able to make it into the office.

On a whole, I am still feeling very upbeat.  I even when to a Winter Dance at a local high school.  I was invited by a friend when knew a woman with extra tickets.  The dance is basically a fund raiser for the jazz band and the woman's son played sax in the band.  Several of my friends were there and we danced a little. but I wasn't wearing my dancing shoes and the floor was hard linoleum.  It was a lot of fun and they had some good snacks. 

Now, I need to go to bed so that I can get some sort of sleep pattern down.  This past week I have been trying to get up early.  I actually set up appointments in the morning to make it so that I have to get up.  The problem is that I haven't been getting to bed earlier.  This resulted in crashing this afternoon for a 4 hour nap.  I felt way better afterward, but it upset my schedule to sleep that long.  I also have been trying to stay consistent with my medications.  I have been bad at keeping up with things and that needs to change.