It is obvious from the lack of posting that we took a break from blogging. Admittedly, in the Fall, I got busy and needed to decide whether blogging was really what I wanted to do. Steve always joked that I just come up with another job to spend less time with him. Not true in the least but he did have a point on my time commitments. Did I really want to spend time posting on my lifestyle blog? This answer was easy – YES! The more accurate question was did I really want to a fourth job?
Yes, you read that right – a fourth job! Until earlier this year, I had three jobs – full time lawyer, part time WW Coach (f/k/a Weight Watchers leader), part time adjunct professor for legal research and writing. All of this plus the blogging had finally run its course and I was burnt out. I loved being a lawyer so that was a no brainer. I loved the law so teaching legal research and writing seemed like a natural additional in the Fall when the opportunity presented itself to teach one night a week. WW had changed my life back in 2010 so obviously I had to return to the favor to all of my members each Saturday morning, waking up at 4:30 a.m. Unfortunately, there are only twenty-four hours in a day and seven days in a week. That meant I had to let this blog languish. There was simply no time. But every time I talked about the blog, it just struck a nerve. There was a reason I had started the blog. I loved writing about my food experiments, about our house trials and tribulations and reading Steve’s blog posts about our travels allowed me to experience them once more.
Then life changed dramatically. Steve left the law firm where he had been practicing law (best decision ever but that’s a subject for another blog post – maybe). I was on LinkedIn looking for opportunities for him when I came across a posting for labor and employment counsel at Union Pacific Railroad. It had everything I had ever wanted to do – counseling, litigation and it involved labor (aka union) law – an area in which I had wanted some experience but couldn’t get in Texas. I applied. A Skype interview, an in-person interview (the day after my sister’s wedding!), a job offer and a lot of discussion and soul searching later and despite the difficulty in leaving Dallas and UT Southwestern, we now live in Omaha, Nebraska, and I work for Union Pacific Railroad. And I’m back to blogging and very excited at this prospect. The reasoning in my head is that sometimes you deliberately make decisions to prioritize what you want to do and sometimes the universe offers its support. And now it is up to us what we want to do with these new opportunities. So for right now this is the view across the street from our temporary housing in Omaha, Nebraska, as we traded our home in historic Winnetka Heights for a new mid-century ranch on a ½ acre. More on this to come…
I still miss you.