I am happy to report that my unemployment status will be short lived!
On Friday I was offered a job with the Social Security Administration working as either a claims representative or a service representative.
I'll start in a month or so, because we have to officially celebrate the end of my time with the National Guard, with a few days in Cancun.
So maybe 13 is my lucky number now!
Oh yeah!
Brian
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Sunshine and blue skys
Spring is coming and I am coming out of hibernation. This year the winter blues have hit me hard. I knew I was in trouble when my body started wanting nothing but sleep and carbs in September.
I always fight the winter blues a little, but this winter was a doozy. For those of you who don’t know, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is not depression, but can be very depressing and often leads to some serious blues. It starts as a physical thing, your body just craves hibernation, and you get tired, crave fats and carbs, and just don’t have the energy you normally do. The physical leads to mental- it takes so much to push yourself through the day that you become apathetic. The mental and the physical eventually lead to emotional.
I think one of the things that took this winter from a 2 bad to an 8 bad is the air. I don’t care where you stand on global warming, climate change etc, the air is bad in the winter and getting worse! Our population is too large to sustain our current lifestyle with our current technology. This is not a matter of politics; this is a matter of health and quality of life. My health and my life.
But now the sun is brighter and the cotton is being flushed from my head by the sight of green growing things. Yeah for spring!
While I was hibernating, I found a couple of cool things.
You can make your own family crest! This is cool for yourself, your family, or any group with whom you share values and goals. Brian and I had a great time making ours.
I always fight the winter blues a little, but this winter was a doozy. For those of you who don’t know, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is not depression, but can be very depressing and often leads to some serious blues. It starts as a physical thing, your body just craves hibernation, and you get tired, crave fats and carbs, and just don’t have the energy you normally do. The physical leads to mental- it takes so much to push yourself through the day that you become apathetic. The mental and the physical eventually lead to emotional.
I think one of the things that took this winter from a 2 bad to an 8 bad is the air. I don’t care where you stand on global warming, climate change etc, the air is bad in the winter and getting worse! Our population is too large to sustain our current lifestyle with our current technology. This is not a matter of politics; this is a matter of health and quality of life. My health and my life.
But now the sun is brighter and the cotton is being flushed from my head by the sight of green growing things. Yeah for spring!
While I was hibernating, I found a couple of cool things.
You can make your own family crest! This is cool for yourself, your family, or any group with whom you share values and goals. Brian and I had a great time making ours.
Go Here http://www.makeyourcoatofarms.com/ to try it yourself.
If you have not found your way to the One Cheep Chick blog, have some fun and check it out! http://blogs.sltrib.com/cheap/ This blog is full of freebies, money saving tips and other financial goodies.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
At half staff...
The Flag at the Team Schiele World Headquarters hung at half staff today in honor of 31 year old Michael Alleman who was buried today.
Michael was the 31st Soldier from Utah, that has been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
I didn't know Michael Alleman, but like me he was a Soldier and was from Utah, which was all I needed to know.
I pray that I never have to lower The Flag to half staff for another Utah service member, I also pray for his wife, his two sons, the rest of his family and for young lives that he touched in his life before he became a Soldier. Before enlisting in the Army, Michael Alleman was a fifth grade teacher in the Logan area.
I also pray for the 4865 other families whose loved one has been killed, the thousands of service members who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as for the thousands of service members who have been injured and for the thousands of others who have been there and are some how not the same.
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