I'm sick and my heater is making a horrible sound like when the washing machine is off-balance.  I really just want someone to make me some soup, but since I am alone, I will either have to do it myself or go out and get some.  Although, I am thinking about getting a Chipotle burrito.  I really don't care for Mexican food, but I am beginning to appreciate more and more.  I ate at Jose Pepper's on Friday and now I am kind of wanting a burrito.  I wish I knew a good fast food type place that sold soup.  Maybe I should go to Panera.  I really want chicken noodle soup, but tomato or even French onion sound good.

The good news is that I was offered a job on Friday and accepted it.  The bad news is--I probably accepted too quickly.  It is a contract to hire type thing and I am not sure how much negotiating I will be able to do at the transition.  I should have asked more about that and tried to do some negotiating for the transition now.  We will see how it works out.  I won't make as much as I used to, but the responsibility is less and I will be doing more technical work.  I will still be making a good salary--whether it will be good enough to support a two lesson a week dance habit I don't know, but since I haven't had a dance lesson in about a year, I don't see that as a major issue.  I think I should be able to afford a 1 lesson a week dance habit.  I won't start that back up until I feel confident I actually will transition.  So in the meantime, I will set aside some money in a dance fund and depending on how that goes, I will buy lessons. I also need to do some repairs to the house, so that will of course take top priority.

I may go a different route.  I always wanted to learn an instrument, so I may take some piano or guitar lessons--they are a lot cheaper than dance lessons.  I also want to learn to sew--I know that sounds weird, but remember my sister has that cool embroidery sewing machine I would like to do some cool stuff with it.  It is too early to tell exactly what I will do, but my year has definitely being going fairly well.  It is not perfect, but I am enjoying myself and feeling more positive.  I really think I needed this break the last year to mope and wallow and determine what my priorities are.

I always feel weird saying things like this, but I think God really did have some kind of plan and is trying to teach me something.  My life was kind of going no where and my focus was on material things.  I believe that I have gotten a little more perspective although now that I have the job, I have started thinking about what to buy and how to spend the money, when I really need to continue to live the way I have been and build my savings back up.  I am literally about out of money at this point.  It is good that I got a job because in a another month, I would be living off credit cards and whats left of my 401K after the going into business for myself debacle.

I am feelilng like I need some food, so I think I will brave the winter weather and go to Panera for soup.