Frazzled!

[krf13]

Well, we're finishing up our move today to the new flat. We're not going to get everything clean and dandy, but I'm fine with losing the deposit. The powers that be have a reputation for finding reasons to take the desposit away from lots of people who strip and work their fingers to the bone cleaning anyway

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[djinnthespazz]

Vacation time.

Yep. And my new job has 5 days. You don't get 10 until you've been with the firm for 3 years.

The US work culture has a ways to go. They can't figure out that chaining folks to their desks for 60 hours a week, 52 weeks a year isn't the best way to get the most productivity out of them, no matter that all the studies show that work quality drops significantly after 9 hours or so.

Sigh.

[krf13]

Quite. You'd think it would make sense, but apparently not. I hope all is going well for your move. I keep reading your livejournal to keep up-to-date and to see your adventures. I don't have your contact details, though. Maybe there's a private way to get them to me when you have a minute...

[lintra]

Sorry to hear about your step-mother. I am lucky that I am one of those people who finds work a refuge during hard times.

[krf13]

Thank you. I appreciate that. I find work to be well, work. Even when I'm enjoying it. When I grieve, I need time to go into myself for a while without interruptions and run through my feelings and memories. Then share them with others. That's when work doesn't help, particularly with the move and then Hubby's treatement still ongoing - my energy has been directed mostly out. I need that solitude.

I'm getting there, though. It'll probaby be by the end of this week that I begin to get some time for myself. Hopefully Hubby's treatment goes well. We finished our move, so all the boxes are in the new flat. I don't go on-call again until next Saturday. It's slowing down. I also re-created my prayer and meditation spot in the new flat, which I really needed to do.

For me, grief is also the flipside of joy. No grief, no joy.

[rowenmansard]

Hey!

I just found you via a comment you left on Abi's blog.

I'm sorry to hear about your step-mother and also I gather that "hubby" has been ill as well, I hope he is recovering well?

I agree 10 days of holiday is just plain ridiculous, it's one of the reasons I've never seriously considered relocating to the US.

[krf13]

Good to hear from you! That's what the LJ is all about - being able to stay in touch and having old friends find you again. You made my day!

Yes, hubby was diagnosed with cancer at the end of March, just after I was ordained in February, so it's been a very emotional and in many ways a very hard time for us. We're glad to have all our friends for support - both old and new.

There has been good news - I'm going to train to teach students about pastoral work in the hospital. So we're settled here for at least the next three to five years. I think we may well stay here for much longer as we both like it.

Keep in touch!