Well, today is January 22nd, which makes my last post 53 days ago. Between a sick kid and deals closing at work, December was so busy that I couldn't seem to find time to write anything. Then we traveled back east for Christmas and got stuck in the massive blizzard, extending the stay with my in-laws by three full days. By the time January rolled around, it had been so long that I thought maybe I should just give up. I never know what to write about after a long absence, but I started missing the online interaction. I have been reading along on google reader but it's just not the same. So, even though I have quite frequently been a bad, inconsistent blogger, I am not really ready to give it up completely.
There isn't even really that much to update you on. I'm starting to feel pretty settled in at work, although January hasn't been super busy thus far. Timmy is more fun each day. His vocabulary has (finally) exploded and it is so much easier now that he communicates with us. We call him our little Ferdinand because he is so mellow and likes to play quietly by himself, usually reading books.
We are still stuck in limbo, with PJO working in another county and us staying in the apartment that is quickly becoming much too small for us. I would literally give a limb to have a home office, but we don't want to move until we have a better idea of our job situations. With both of us commuting for over 2 hours a day, we are definitely stretched thin on days where we have a lot of work to do or when Timmy has to stay home from daycare. But I'm hopeful that we'll figure it all out sometime this year.
6 comments:
hang in there! i have no idea how you're managing the commute. what a trooper.
if you don't mind me asking, how much does your work load fluctuate? i've been in my office for three weeks and it's totally dead: no deals and not a single billable hour. it's making me super nervous (although it has given me the opportunity to finish all of my CLE requirements--i'm good for the next three years).
Yay for being back! And wow. 2 hours? That's really, really taxing.
Welcome back! Did Timmy enjoy the snow while you were stuck with the inlaws?
Yay... you're back! :-)
Sounds like you've a budding academic on your hands! :-)
Glad you're back! January is typically a slow month. It's like pulling teeth for me to get work from anyone right now. I think a lot of the senior associates hoard work in the first month of the year to get off to a strong start. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Hi everyone! If it wasn't clear, my commute is 2 hours per day, not each way...which I think is (sadly) pretty standard in LA.
P2P - my workload fluctuates weekly. The first two weeks of January were busy for me because I had two deals that were left over from December, but otherwise, I've billed about 8 hours. Eeek. It does seem slow overall though, so I'm not going to worry until February. Do you love being at work?!
And Juliet, not so much. We took him sledding and he was ecstatic for the .2 seconds we were flying down the hill, but otherwise, completely miserable in the cold. I guess it's lucky for him that we live in CA :)
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