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Nov 11, 2005 13:35

You know, it is a little disappointing when I have great hair on Fridays. Because the first thing I do in the morning is drive over to Sight Seer Radio and record my book reading, and once that big microphone is strapped across my head, all semblance of decent hair is gone. Why have great hair for the 5 minute car ride it takes me to get to the radio station?

So, how are you? I’m fabulous really, though it seems strange to be writing here after so long. It feels weird, I’m a bit creaky, like I need to dust off my writing muscles. I understand a little better why when people have to go away for a time from LiveJournal, why they don’t always come back, or if they do it is under a different name. I feel like I have deserted you all and I’m a little shy about showing my face around these parts again - especially after my big announcement about being back.

Life had gotten a little weird there for awhile. Right after I announced I was “back” my work life went insane. You see we do work for a company that is actively involved in hurricane clean up and processing. Normally they only outsource a little of their work to us, but when storm after storm ravaged America, they decided to open up the faucets and let ALL their work flow to us, while they took care of the people in need. We more than quadrupled our business overnight. In many ways this was good, it’s always good to be busy, especially since our company believes in profit sharing. The hard part was that several of our key office staff were out at the same time. We all were working late hours, a lot of overtime (well, it would be overtime if I wasn't salaried) and stressed out. Like many of you, I usually updated at work and they way things were, it left no time for LiveJournal.

In addition I find myself really, wonderfully busy with theatre. The week after Michael and I got back from our honeymoon we both leaped headfirst into Opera. It wasn’t completely by choice, but Opera hires by the season, so though I would have rather not started working on show the minute I got back from my honeymoon, I didn’t have a choice. The show was “Turnadot” and I was a dresser to the diva. Michael was on hair and make up. Plus, I have become active with a theatrical group here in town. I am on two of their committees - Fund Raising and Play Selection. I don’t even have words for how much I enjoy working on these committees with this group of people. I wish that I were independently wealthy so I could dedicate more time - and more money - to this worthy group, but for now I give them what I can. In the evenings now I read plays and on the weekends I work on fund raisers.

Michael and I are doing really well. There really is a difference between shacking up and being married. It’s hard to describe, because it is subtle, but it there. There is a touch of relaxation. Even though we knew each other so well, there was still that sense that all it would take would be for someone to rent a u-haul and pack their belongings, for the relationship to end. So, even though we were comfortable in the relationship, happy, secure in each other, there was a part of me that was always a tiny bit on edge. Wondering if a shoe was going to drop somewhere. Now that feeling is gone. Oh, I know all about divorce, I am Michael’s third wife after all, but it isn’t easy. I feel like now I can relax a bit more. (Although, I should be quick to point out that I don’t believe in hiding personality traits from your partner. I would never be one of those people who was one person before the marriage and whole different one after.) With getting married that tiny fear, that tiny bit of doubt, it disappears, and damn but that’s a good feeling.

We are also getting along just amazingly well, even better than before the wedding, which I didn’t think was possible. The stress of the wedding is gone, and suddenly we find ourselves being even more romantic than we were. We touch, we kiss, we laugh, all of the time. I don’t know what happened, but it’s wonderful, even magical.

And there are a few other things on the horizon as well. A dear friend and I are considering starting a business together. It’s still on the drawing board, so no details I can share quite yet, but it is coming, it’s coming. I’m also writing again... in my ample spare time. Ok, honestly I haven’t had anytime to work on it at all, but about a week ago an idea came to me - clear and brilliant and complete. It hit me like a bolt of lighting. So, I’m working on it. Mostly I am doing research, because there is some information I need to write this story properly, and I spend a fair amount time talking aloud to myself in the car working out dialogue. I am rather grateful to cordless cell phones for the fact that I probably don’t look too kooky, though I don’t care all that much.

So, that’s what's going on with me. What’s new with you?

work, michael, something blue

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