So in an effort to just reach out and touch someone, I will now touch you… all.

So here’s what I’ve learned in the last week:

Money really can’t buy happiness

It’s true. Sometimes we forget this as we wallow in poverty but hot dang if I wouldn’t trade it all to be up with my ole boy mifsud or back with the family. It’s really funny to me though, I’ve been through this move to a new place curve a number of times and it always surprises me what a pain it is to establish yourself in a new place, find friends, etc. I mean every aspect of your life needs rebuilding, my basketball crowd for weekday afternoons, mountainbiking buddies for the weekends, church friends, girl friends, and on and on. In your mind you just think I’ll need new buddies, well after three or four new ones, you realize the roster is not yet filled and you have to keep looking. But don’t get the wrong idea, we’re making friends, just new ones that fill new roles, it’s just some of the old ones I’m missing is all. Other things,

Working from home stinks

So I always imagined this would be much more glamorous than it is. I sleep in my office and work in my bedroom. That’s not the bad part, it’s kind of nice to wake up and sit in my chair, work on a few things that need attention, get up, take a shower, come back keep working, get up go eat breakfast. There’s no pressure to look busy, and so I get tons more done because everything is done as I find the need to do it, there’s no time wasting mentality which I love. However, I get so bored! I am home, but I still have to work. It’s not quite like I can goof off all day and work all night, I still have to keep hours, so I end up feeling very much like a shut in, while having none of the work place social drama that normally entertains throughout the day. I speak to no one, I am absolutely alone all the live long day, which some people would love, but find myself giddily waiting for unsuspecting people to login to their gmail and snag them for a quick chat of “hey, how you doing, what are you doing today? anything new, anything old, anything!?” And it’s been a week! :) I’m sure I’ll get used to it, but still.

So that’s all the gems so far. The job is good. It’s tough, but that’s because I’m coming into it all new and am having to work my tail off to keep up with the lingo and conference calls right now. Honestly though, I got nothing to complain about, life is good, work is solid and I’m getting tons of reading in (Currently reading “Coming out of the ice - an unexpected life by Victor Herman” and it’s great, I’ll tell more about it later) and enjoying the great food of Southern California.