I am nearing the 2 year mark on doing this blog. I started with a few entries on blogger.com and then got this domain and moved everything here. I have enjoyed it quiet a bit. I spent some time reading back through my blog and found it very cool to see my life in that way. I also noticed something too. I was doing well for a while till all the work stress hit. That stuff going on with where I work that I couldn't talk about...well I can now but I will get to that later in the post. First though I noticed when I was happy with my job how much better I was doing with getting the weight off. Of course it is easier to get motivated when everything isn't going crazy. But I also have to wonder how much stress and hormones from it caused it to be such a struggle.
There are many articles on how the stress hormone cortisol causes added fat especially in the stomach area. I wonder if I hadn't been watching what I eat and trying to get in exercise how much more weight I might have gained. It was definitely enough as it was that is for sure. I felt like I was going backwards in so many ways.
I am still going to WW though I missed my meeting this last week. I am still thinking about switching to a week day meeting....either Tuesday or Thursday night I think. I really want to find a group I bond with and get to know some of the members better.
As far as work...it will be over in about 3 months. I thought it would all have been done way before now. We found our a year and a half ago that we were closing down our dial up division. We sold the customers to big name company....got through that and laid off most of the techs. We dropped our 24/7 support and I went from working one position to working much more, pretty much picking up all the stuff that the people that were let go did. I was juggling admin assist, HR, telco prov. assist. and tech support.....oh and accounts payable for the office.
At first I was so busy I didn't have time to breathe but then it slowed down and got really boring. Now I expect it is going to get back to the no time to do anything again.
We were told they were looking for someone to buy our company but that if it wasn't bought that they would close us. And if we ended up closing that those of us that stuck it out would get a severance package. As fast as all the other stuff went down we thought this was going to go quickly too. We were told we should know something in a couple of months. This was in the summer and we should know by fall time. Well fall came and went, so did winter. In spring we finally got word that we were closing but by the end of the same day we were told we were not, that another company was looking at us. And on and on it has went...till now and finally we are back at closing and the actual notices have gone out. We are down to a skeleton crew...in fact a few of the people that were going to be here till the close down quit and went else where. I can't blame them...their are times I wonder if I shouldn't have done the same. But the thought of the severance and how it could let me transition to something I would enjoy kept me going.
I don't want in the same kind of work again. I'm looking at this as a positive thing...that it might give me a small break to work on my health. As far as jobs...I think I would like to work at my local Curves. I really like the place and the ladies there. So I will apply for that and see how it goes once I have been let go of and go to looking for work.
