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I'm not sure how effective this is going to be, but I'm gonna try blogging on the fly.

Fortunately, and unfortunately, I find myself with a bit of idle time these days. Not the best kind, in which I curl up into a book with my blankie and Pebo snuggles, but still, time I can put to use.

The way things go now, I'm either exploiting small windows of time at work n order to study, or I'm at the apartment and for some reason not asleep. It's the latter in which I find myself thinking about a lot of things I never let myself delve into.

On a superficial sort of level, it is kind of unbelievable how I sleep lately. Some of it is physical exhaustion from adjusting to 12-16 hour work days followed by mile-long walkies with Pebo from our second floor apartment. My legs have gains like crazy now. Venus Williams might be jealous.

Some of the tired is mental. I feel like I went back to college with all of the programs they put us through for acute care. Being separated from everyone in California adds to that fatigue too. 

Quick Catch-Up

Hello, long abandoned internet friends. It's been a ridiculously long time since I've written anything worth reading. There's been drafts, attempts, half scribbled ideas on old receipts, but nothing worthy of my attentions long enough to merit writing a post with images to entertain all of you nice people.

Over a year-and-a-half ago, I finally got my stupid leg and mental health well enough to re-enter the workforce, and got hired at a Chicken Place. 

"But beloved blog writer, aren't you working your way into the medical field? What are you doing applying for a job at Chicken Places?"

What was I doing? I was looking for income. After three years, I was a beggar, and couldn't be choosy about which skill set I got to apply in order to get my bank account, and my marriage, out of the negative. Husband was a machine, keeping us as much out of debt as possible while living off his very limited disability income. I had couponed and sale-stalked to keep our expenses low, but it wasn't going to last much longer. 

It was a blessing and a bit of a letdown that my return to the workforce was in food service. I felt like I was still taking steps backward. As it turns out though, the Chicken Place was my entrance into career rejuvenation. You see, Chicken Place has a reputation for high standards with the people they employ, and after a rocky year of working for them, I too would be attributed with that standard.

The chronicles of my time with Chicken Place will be its own set of posts. For now, all you nice people need to know is that I took that stepping stone and leapt into my field - finally - in a position I didn't even know existed for someone like myself. It's a hospital contracting service with Davita for acute hemodialysis cases, which usually isn't something offered to technicians. A follow-up post will cover the full opportunity I just lucked into, as for now I'm trying not to bounce around to too many subjects.

The catch with this new, unexpected, miracle of an opportunity is that it's in another state. Luckily for us, the location is only four hours away in another desert like ours, with a better economy and thus a lower cost of living. I feel silly telling anyone I'm moving here for a medical career because frankly, it's kind of hard to believe, but my new dialysis position is in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For now, I'm bouncing between "here" in Nevada and "home" in California where Husband is. This is part of the reason I've been fairly silent about life in general for the last couple months, as many of you had pointed out on facebook. I didn't want word getting out and jinxing anything until I was sure this wasn't some elaborate prank or something. Rest assured, now that I'm not constantly on fire running amok and have almost maybe settled into this program at work, I'll be blogging again with all of the ridiculous things I've been getting into. It's goin' be good!