Things Are Happening!

Is it too late to say that 2019 is finally beginning to start for me?  Or, at least, restart after the sheer awfulness of April - October.  It has been a long time coming, but I have some happy news for a change.

Here's a couple of hints:

• I bought pants
• I'm setting an alarm

I know you must be thinking pants?  Doesn't she own any pants?  Well not really.  Nothing more than old jeans, because when you don't work, you don't need a lot of clothes.  I can safely say that I've spent more money on running/workout clothing than on my regular wardrobe over the last five years.  But I needed pants, and I think the universe was with me because I walked into TJ Maxx recently, pulled a handful of pants to try on, and every single pair fit.  WHAT THE WHAT?  That never happens!  And the bonus is that I chose ankle length for all of them which means that they fit my vertically-challenged body so well that nothing needs hemming.  Usually the short or petite length pants are a little too long on me, so this was a miracle.

And after setting my alarm to wake up and exercise early in the morning for a decade, and then not, I'm back to setting it.  But not for running - it's because I'm going back to work!  Well, a little.  Just 15 hours a week, which is enough to get me back on a schedule, but not so much that I won't get to go to my afternoon group workouts, or go to Dallas for a three-day weekend.

I wasn't looking for a job, but a couple of months ago I began thinking that I needed to get some semblance of order back in my life, and without starting my days with running, I didn't have any sense of urgency to get things done. To be fair to myself, I wasn't exactly feeling good.  Understatement much?  Anyway, as I was winding down my PT appointments before surgery, Amanda asked me if I'd be interested in working for her part-time.  She's had her solo practice for three years now and was ready to hire some help so she can stop doing everything (seriously, I don't know how she's done it, along with having a family life).  We worked together about 15 years ago and always had a good rapport, so when she offered me the job, I happily accepted.  Besides, after going to PT every week for over four months, I was thinking that I'd miss being there, and now I won't, because I'll still be there!

I'll be learning some new-to-me things like medical records and insurance preauthorizations, and I'm sure I will have many days where I feel like Ralph Wiggum:

But hopefully I'll advance to the next stage before too long:

So that's the first bit of my news - pants and a job.  There's more but I'll save that for another post.