Beads, Work and Movies
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I can't stop beading!
I can't stop beading!In addition to beading and stitching today, I'll be cutting more circles and poking more patterns so I have work ready-to-go for the next few weeks.
My biggest task today, however, is to step up the pep talk I started giving myself on Friday. Tomorrow I return to work after this wonderful week of vacation days, the way I was meant to live, by the way. One of the women in our department is on vacation this week. We have a new auditor in all week, reviewing records from the past 13 months. Blah, blah, blah.
It goes like this: I like my job. I like the people I work with. I enjoy the work. It pays adequately. It supplies me with benefits. It's a steady income.
How did I do on the sincerity meter?? No, really, I do mean all those things. As far as jobs go, it really suits me pretty well, for the most part.
I read a bit of Money magazine in the eye doctor's office last weekend. I wanted to read more so I bought an issue afterwards. One of the articles I was interested in was about entrepreneurs, one of my favorite subjects. One of the most meaningful things I read was the advice to hang on to the "day job" as long as possible when starting a new business. It made me see my accounting job in a new light - as a positive, that is making everything else possible. Sometimes I feel a little resentful that it takes up 40+ hours/week when I could be attending to my passion - paper art. I know that's dumb, but that's how I felt sometimes. Now I'm seeing it as one of the steps that needs to be taken to reach my larger goal - that Pine Tree Designs be a self-sufficient business that supports me.
My biggest task today, however, is to step up the pep talk I started giving myself on Friday. Tomorrow I return to work after this wonderful week of vacation days, the way I was meant to live, by the way. One of the women in our department is on vacation this week. We have a new auditor in all week, reviewing records from the past 13 months. Blah, blah, blah.
It goes like this: I like my job. I like the people I work with. I enjoy the work. It pays adequately. It supplies me with benefits. It's a steady income.
How did I do on the sincerity meter?? No, really, I do mean all those things. As far as jobs go, it really suits me pretty well, for the most part.
I read a bit of Money magazine in the eye doctor's office last weekend. I wanted to read more so I bought an issue afterwards. One of the articles I was interested in was about entrepreneurs, one of my favorite subjects. One of the most meaningful things I read was the advice to hang on to the "day job" as long as possible when starting a new business. It made me see my accounting job in a new light - as a positive, that is making everything else possible. Sometimes I feel a little resentful that it takes up 40+ hours/week when I could be attending to my passion - paper art. I know that's dumb, but that's how I felt sometimes. Now I'm seeing it as one of the steps that needs to be taken to reach my larger goal - that Pine Tree Designs be a self-sufficient business that supports me.
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Steve and I watched two movies last night - Snow Walker and Walk the Line. I think I put Snow Walker in our queue based on a Netflix suggestion after returning 8 Below. I enjoyed it more than Steve did though he liked it okay. I like what I call character study movies. Walk the Line was very good. I had no idea June Carter was so spunky, funny and strong. I thought she was more subservient, for lack of a better word. Reese Witherspoon seems very likable from interviews I've seen. I just put another couple of her movies in our queue.
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Labels: Movies, What I'm Working On
posted by Stefani at 11:50 AM
2 Comments:
Thinking about those of you in the work force. I hope you are setting aside for retirement, or old age if you will. We could of done a better job and now we can't afford long term health insurance.
It's a subject gently mentioned to our un married kids. They spend money on their passions like crazy!
Every spare cent goes to retirement funds and paying off the mortgage.
Steve & are both very lucky to have excellent role model parents for those things. He and I are both doing pretty okay and I'm still worried as hell about having enough saved for retirement. I can't imagine how those who haven't been saving feel.
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