Maritzia’s Thoughts

From Witches Wit and Wisdom: 

 Grab that book meme.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
Well, I’m at work and strangely enough, the only book I have at hand is a D&D manual *laughs*

So, page 123, 5th sentence: “The armor check penalty and armor bonus for hastily donned armor are each 1 point worse than normal.”

Does that have something to say to me in my current circumstances?  Maybe…don’t react hastily to the current stresses.  Take time to consider and meditate, and when you make a decision, you’ll know it’s the right one.

The universe has some funny ways of telling you things sometimes, doesn’t it?  Who’d think I’d find a bit of wisdom in a D&D manual *laughs*.

So, if you’re reading this, consider yourself tagged.  Post a link to your blog with your bit of “book at hand” wisdom.

So, I told you the boss is leaving.  Well, they are going to make the Associate Director the Interim Director for at least a year.  It’s possible if she does well, she’ll eventually be offered the Director position.  Anyway, she has a secretary already, and I’m pretty sure she’ll want to keep her.  So, my boss and I are supposed to sit down when he gets back from town to talk about how all this is going to impact me and what he can do to help me have a “soft landing” as he puts it.

 You know, I love being an administrative assistant.  I like working directly for one person.  But the problem with that is, if you work for someone who is good at what he does and is ambitious, he eventually leaves you and your stuck with this kind of situation.  This is the second time in 6 years I’ve been through this.  So, we just wait and see whats going to happen.

At the same time, my mother-in-law just found out that her downstairs neighbors are moving in two weeks.  Which leaves a nice apartment with a great yard downstairs from her available.  We’ll be right there if she needs anything, and we can be together more, which we’d all like.  The only problem is that the landlord is saying no more dogs, and we’ve got three.  But, I know he likes Wiebke and wants her to stay, and if we’re there, it most likely we and she will be wanting to stay somewhat more long term than Wiebke was thinking.  So that’s a plus for him.  She’s going to call him and talk to him tonight.  It depends on how much he wants for it and if he’s open to our dogs.  The current tenants are paying, I believe, $800 CD, which would be a significant savings over our current rent.  Even if he went up to $1000 CD, it would work out about the same as we currently have, even with the cost of commuting.  I don’t think Canadian Immigration will have a problem with it as long as I maintain a job here in the US, and it would give us a leg up in applying for residency status for me in Canada.  Well, that’s another thing we have to wait and see on.

Mark sent his program off to his friend at CN.  John thinks it’s really good.  It still needs some tweaks, but he was quite impressed with the functionality Mark has built into it.  With any luck, that will bring a bit more money into the house, especially since we’re not sure where my job stands at the moment.  Yes, yet a third thing to wait and see about *laughs*.

I’ve mentioned, I believe, that I’m not really good at waiting?  Nope, it’s not my forte at all.  That J in my INFJ is a pretty pronounced one.  So, needless to say, I’m stressing right and left at the moment.  But, this too shall pass.  Whatever happens, I firmly believe it happens for a reason.  We just have to wait and see what the reason is….

Arggghhh….more waiting!