SNOWY SUNDAY---AND COLD

[sunshinecruiserTN]

We are all temporarily HERE and temporarily ABLE.....stop and consider what you will hold dear....as the saying goes, at the end very few individuals say, "gosh I wish I had spent MORE time at the office..." The possibilities of your future and good health may be limitless but nothing is guaranteed ...there is more money...or there are opportunities to dance in the fire light! If you can make it happen I recommend finding those opportunities for dancing in the fire light with friends!

How profound! That is exactly why I out here now and loving. Yes, it's cold here at least for Central FL but not as cold as Nashville and I haven't looked back one second. I don't miss going back to work one bit. As you said, once you take that counseling session and find out there is not much of a difference, go for it! We just go around once!

[BarbaraRose]

As far as the snow and cold, I have lived here most of my life and have never gotten "used" to it. My idea of a perfect winter day is laying by a pool, on an 85 degree day and looking up at the snow-capped mountains off in the distance! I needed to go grocery shopping today, but it was just too dang cold to go out so I will go tomorrow after work.

Echo, I will have to try the cardboard thing on my car too. It takes so long for my car to warm up on the way to work now. (And yes, the Tracer is the same as the Escort. Love my car! It is my second Escort).

I quit a job at Great Clips last month that I loved, that is until we got a new owner and manager. Everything changed and they ran things very unethically and unprofessional. It got to a point that I just couldn't take it anymore with their lying, underhanded ways of doing things, so I just walked out one day. Luckily, I was able to find another salon job right away with a former manager who is wonderful. Also found a great paying full-time job with another company I used to work for doing accounting assistant work. It is just temporary but may lead to permanent in the near future. So, sometimes it is worth making that change if you are not happy where you are. Life is too short to be in a miserable job.

Barbie

[Nasoosie]

Thanks for that great post, Tina. I know the next two or three months I have to make the decision that will greatly alter my life. I am just too tired and too cold this morning to even try to write about anything. Will I dare to go forward, or will I simply stick with the known (and despised) situation I am in now. Will the lack of money deter me? Will the lack of courage deter me? This is actually the first time in my teaching career that I dread going to work. But the thought of no bi-weekly paychecks any more scares the living he]] out of me.

Some other day I will try to deal with it----not today.

[mitch5252]

Thanks for that great post, Tina. I know the next two or three months I have to make the decision that will greatly alter my life. I am just too tired and too cold this morning to even try to write about anything. Will I dare to go forward, or will I simply stick with the known (and despised) situation I am in now. Will the lack of money deter me? Will the lack of courage deter me? This is actually the first time in my teaching career that I dread going to work. But the thought of no bi-weekly paychecks any more scares the living he]] out of me.

Some other day I will try to deal with it----not today.

Soos, you'll make the right decision when the time comes.
Tina's advice was (as usual) excellent!

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[Redetotry]

As I keep postponing my dreams the words to a country song that goes 'dreams move on if we wait too long" keeps running through my head.

[Echo]

The thoughts of postponing dreams makes me think of my parents.

My dream started when I found a magazine in the laundromat called, "Full Timing". Geeze the kids were little then. I tried to talk my parents into doing something like it. They thought it might be nice as long as they kept a home base. Time went by...... I was forever pushing them to go! They owned 3 houses but did not rent out any of them. Finally Mom and Dad went on a cross country motorcycle trip. Left upstate NY, went up into Canada to visit friends then back into the states so they could visit family. They zigzagged back and forth across the border to Washington to visit more family. Down into TX (family), across the south to Florida to visit friends. They both had a super good time and planned another trip. I think I had them talked into selling 2 of the houses, buying a new pickup, TT and motorcycle and going on their travels. First place they sold was my Grandfathers old farm house to my oldest brother. Was doing some remodeling and such to other place before putting it up for sale when Mom found out she had cancer.

Mom never got to go on the second cross country trip but she made Dad promise that he would after she died. He went again on the motorcycle as a memorial to Mom. I have the letters/journal that he wrote on the trip and mailed out to family. One of the things he wrote that caught my attention was that he was seeing things that he just knew Mom would have gotten a good chuckle out of and how much he wished they hadn't put things off so long. As she also belonged on that second trip.

Dreams are a tragic thing to lose or let die.

Ok, I'm off my soapbox for now. Time to wipe my eyes..........

[BarbaraRose]

One thing that has spurred me on my RV quest is the fact that I have been to several funerals just this year of young women who died in the prime of their lives. I am afraid that if I wait too long, something will happen and I won't get the chance to travel and see the country like I've always dreamed of doing. There are no guarantees of a long healthy life, so the sooner the better. If I do end up with a long healthy life, then that will be more time for more dreams to pursue! (Or maybe I am just having a mid-life crisis!? )

Barbie