I'm really surprised to hear that your boss is so relaxed! That's great, hopefully that means he stays out of your way and lets you do what you need to! I'm sure everything will come back as you start doing it, and I bet you'll end up looking like a hero for bringing order to all the chaos that it sounds like they've got going on. And, your friend will look brilliant for recommending you!

And, I can totally understand how adding lines to your invoice would be exciting! Of course!

When I was looking at jobs online, I think there were a few that looked interesting, but they weren't local to me. I think I'd like to work for a company doing something interesting, with good values. The place I'm at now is a mega-monster-huge type company, and it's just depressing. I don't fit in at all.

It's really weird, because I was in the office briefly today to sit in on another interview, and afterwards as we talked, it was obvious that the other women in our group really like it. They talked about what a fun team we are, and how everybody is friends. I just feel like I'm in bizarro world, sometimes! I don't know how my sense of reality can be so completely different from everyone else... although I think it's because the people who I got along with and who thought more like me have all left the group! Of course these people are happy, they're the ones that liked the group and stayed!

I love what you said about getting out of the toxic day-job routine, but there's still the question of - how? I have a decent emergency fund, but not enough to hold out until I can actually retire (and a decent amount in my retirement accounts, but I'm not yet old enough to start tapping it!) I used to think I'd be ok with a job that paid less, but that was a better job/environment (less toxic). But, I don't know what that could be - I think most corporations are just as screwed up. I do think that getting a great boss can make a huge difference, because the only time I really felt better about work was when I had a boss who was really good... easy to get along with, but also the right amount of friendliness for me (I still keep in touch with him). Otherwise, I feel like it's crazy to walk away from some of the perks that I have now... like working from home, and the vacation time.

I don't know. I know I mentioned it before, but I also feel like... gosh, if I could just figure out how to get therapy working for me.... I know there's stuff that needs fixing, and I'm in a good, stable place to do that... but the therapy part just makes no sense to me at all... so I'm not getting anything out of it right now. Blah!

I do think that seriously, a job that paid enough for me to pay my bills but only required 3 days a week of work - would be wonderful. Even if I had to go into an office, it would be enough structure and "getting things done" to keep me from never leaving the house but with a bit more free time for fun things, and for trying to cook healthy foods and exercise, which takes up too much time when you have a full-time job!

Oh! And the spatial memory thing - that's funny that you're like that too! Yeah, I never learned to drive a stick at all, and really don't parallel park. When I went on the work trip in the fall... my coworker made me do all the driving (long story). Except - she wanted us to go out to the beach after work one night. We did... but we actually pulled over, changed places, and I let her parallel park, b/c there was just *no way* I even wanted to try, lol! So not my thing... and I really didn't want to get in accident, with a rental car, while on a work trip. Nope!

Well, happy weekend! We survived another week! Are you doing anything fun this weekend? I'm trying to get some cooking and cleaning done (so not fun!) and maybe see if my ankle can handle a tiny bit of walking, so I can get out. Two days is just not long enough to relax at the end of the week, at a minimum, I think we should all move towards a mandatory 3-day weekend!!!