Thursday Random

Catching up on the random

• Kaitlin and I decided to go after some cast interviews for our F. N. L. podcast (sorry for the vagueness, I don’t want Google picking it up) .  Amazingly, several already have agreed and we might be interviewing “Becky” as soon as tonight!  “JD” is scheduled for January.  All I can think is thank goodness for Kaitlin because interviews scare me to death.  I mean, I’m really excited to talk to these people and could probably carry on a conversation for hours but for the interview you get 15 minutes to ask just the right questions and it’s all recorded.  Ah, the pressure!
• I also was able to speak to D. G. ‘s management the other day.  Basically I was looking for info on his appearances to be able to report on them.  She emailed me and asked me to call her. She was super nice and seemed willing to work with me.  She already has answered some questions through email for me that the fans have had.
• Our Christmas shopping was basically started and completed last weekend.  I think I only need to get one or two more gift cards and a few more presents for the girls and we’re good.  Definitely easy shopping this year.
• I’ve been thinking a lot about my  job recently.  We interviewed 4 people to come on our team in the past week to work on a project.  I’m basically going to be the team lead for it.  A few of these people choked a little in the interview and I felt bad. I felt worse knowing that a year from now I could be in their shoes.  I haven’t interviewed for a “real” job but twice in my life and that was almost 9 years ago.  In fact, I don’t even know what to do about next year.  Honestly it’s unlikely I will get the one full-time spot they might have to offer.  I think at this point I would take it if offered as long as I could continue to work from home.  But if it’s not am I ready and willing to take another full-time job away from home? I really don’t think so.  So what does that mean for me and also our budget?  I don’t know, it’s a lot to think about.  A year is a long time though and who knows what will happen.
• I’ve completed 5 sessions of C25K.  Pretty sure I still hate running.  In fact,  I’m seriously thinking about dropping it and I HATE not finishing things.  I mean, I know I could do a 5K but if exercise and health is most important, why would I do it when I have cycling that I can do with the same health effect and enjoy so much more?  But, it’s only been 5 sessions so I’ll probably give it some more time and see what comes of it.
• I just finished Lysa TerKeurst’s latest book Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl. Some of it wasn’t challenging but some of it was very challenging.  It was worth the red for me and I would recommend it.
• Speaking of books, I’ve been trying to spend some time editing mine.  I’ve been waffling on what to do with it.  I mentioned not liking quitting anything and while I would hate to leave it what I would call unfinished, I could be ok with walking away from it and calling it a lesson learned.  I know this sounds weird but I think God keeps calling me back to it.  I recently sent it out to a professor that I met at a tweet up.  She’s supposed to read it over winter break and give some feedback.  I’m hoping she does and maybe will jump-start some good changes that I know are needed.
• Lately I just haven’t felt much like myself emotionally and even physically.  I’m beginning to think my thyroid may be out of whack.  Part of me thinks it’s just the weather.  I miss the summer.  I miss the pool.  I miss the sun.  Gloomy is just not fun.  But I have some other symptoms I’m worried about…I’m much more emotional lately both crying and feeling irritable much more often, losing weight is not nearly as easy as it has been in the past, I can’t seem to get enough sleep even though I’m getting 8-9 hours a night and even yesterday I took a nap and still had no trouble sleeping, even cold intolerance is something on the list I identified with.  I don’t mean to be a hypochondriac by any means but really, something is going on.  Who knows, maybe this is what getting older feels like.

So that’s where I am.  The girls are great, Scott is good, we are good.  Nothing at all to complain about.  In fact, lots to be thankful for and I am.