All good things must come to an end, sort of...
Last Tuesday I packed up my 55lbs suit case and headed back to San Francisco via Fort Lauderdale. Our good friends Paige and Charlie postponed their lunch hours to pick me up and we had a great late lunch together. I met Paige many moons ago, when she was working in personnel (the term HR had yet to be invented) at Saks Fifth Avenue in Chevy Chase, Maryland (this was probably 1985), she hired me to do inventory, which re-numerated me with a small check and two days of shopping discounts at Saks. Don't remember what I bought, likely it would not fit today, but so began my friendship with Paige. She later met the love of her life, Charlie, they married, she went to work with Claire at the travel agency, and it goes from there. Charlie and Paige have two very beautiful, smart daughters, and over the years we have had lots of fun times in California, Florida, Washington DC, Key West and France together.
Me, Paige and Charlie
Lunch went by too fast, and soon I was back at the Ft. Lauderdale airport, and then on the plane home. Reinold met me at SFO - the circle was complete! I had a busy few days before leaving again this past Saturday - saw my parents one night for dinner, and Simon/Elizabeth on Friday. Currently I'm attending a certification class in Fairfax, Virginia, staying with some other friends, Barb, Drew and Cailin in Kensington, Maryland just north of Washington, DC. Cailin is keep me on my toes, when I arrived Saturday, and knocked on the door, this 4 year bundle of nuclear energy belted out "It's open...". We've been having a good time, in between my trying to understand how to describe an ENTJ...but I got a 100% on my first test today, so I must be making progress!
Cailin and her dad, Drew
And so life goes on. Hopefully I'll have some consulting work soon, in the interim I'm catching up on some training and certification opportunities that I neglected in the past couple years, and quite honestly I'm kind of enjoying for now being in limbo. August is a dead month for job searching regardless, however I'm still very certain something good is on the horizon. The past 40 or so days have been enlightening - Reinold and I are blessed with a remarkable, global network of friends and family, it has been easy in the past 12 months to lose sight of that with other things going on, but I'm back in focus now. I have also discovered joy in writing this blog, and will be starting another one shortly about the end of summer/early fall adventures of looking for a job, and general thoughts on life.
Lots of people to thank for my incredible month, including Fiona, Tom, Annette, Anita, Andrew, Sharon, the Jackson 5, Roger, Rosy, Louise, Greg, Rob, Juliet, Carmen, Will, Todd, Kerry, Claire, Paige, Charlie....and many others. And thank you to Reinold, who patiently supported this undertaking as he does with so many things in our life together.
So stay tuned, the adventure continues...
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