Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes...

... Have been overly abundant and quite stressful. Which is partially why I haven't posted in almost three weeks. Turmoil and upheaval tend to make me focus more internally and "shut off" from the outside world. Heck, even my Facebook statuses have been rather far and few between.

So, where to begin....

How about with what has caused these drastic changes? In February of this year Collin's company filed for chapter eleven bankruptcy protection. On April 30th, they announced that the court did not accept any of their plans for restructuring the company, and liquidation was set to begin within the next two weeks (for any non-business saavy readers this equals bye-bye company... FOR GOOD). We found out at this time that Collin's job would obviously be ending sometime in the next two to three months. Then, a week to the day after the announcement was made, (so May 7th for those of you on drugs) Collin got his sixty day notice. His official last day will be July 9th. Yea, it's sad... Really, really sad because a ton of really awesome people at his work are now going to be unemployed. I hope and wish they all find amazing jobs.

Honestly? I am really not stressing over this. If worst comes to worst, and Collin doesn't get a job right away, we'll be okay. Thankfully, we have paid off a bunch of stuff in this last year (since the last time he was laid off by the company), so we will be financially okay. Plus he can also whore himself out to employment agencies and that will help. At first it was too much to take in, but now, having gone over a worst-case-scenario budget and planning the next couple months of what to pay off and so forth, it is extremely manageable. Another upside to all of this: Hopefully when he gets something new, we will have weekends together again! So, don't worry about me!

Let's see, that has really been the focal point of everything going on right now. I did land an interview with ODFW last month, it went well, but they went with another candidate. Oh well. When I am meant to get a new job and leave this one it will happen. For now I am at peace with my position and the apparent security I have with the company. This doesn't mean I am not looking at State jobs, I'm just not stressing on it. I know that when I find the right position it will all meld together perfectly.

Today I get to take a long lunch and go have my teeth cleaned (need to take advantage of the dental benefits while I can!). Speaking of, sadly with all the upheaval, until the seas have calmed I will not be getting my implant surgery as planned. Sucky, I know, but that's life. I still have ten months until I would have to get the prices re-quoted, and as we can see from the last three weeks of my life it can all change in the blink of an eye. Who knows where the next month could take us? Or even the next hour...

Now, before I get too much deeper and philosophical (wow, I spelled that right... It's one of those words that always looks like I spelled it wrong...) I need to get to work. Peace out bitches! The next post has to be epic; it'll be my TWO HUNDREDTH POST!!! OoOoOo, I am going to take a look back at post #100 when I am done with this... (looking now....) If you want you can check it out, it was fairly epic news: 100th Posting