Yeah, so I've been back from Seattle for a while and I haven't posted anything. I suck.
Again, I had some trouble with re-entry. I did when I got back from London in August, from Philadelphia in November (which was only a 2-day trip), and now from Seattle which was only 4-5 days.
Now, Seattle was a wonderful place, but primarily, I was there to visit my friend Mika, and not the city.
I wish I had taken photos of her neighborhood, Magnolia, which had the cutest little (which I gather are not ACTUALLY little once inside) Craftsman houses, and beautiful landscaping. However, in typical Jenny fashion, my battery died after taking my only photo in Seattle, on the drive from the airport.
However, I don't think it was Seattle's charm, that made my re-entry difficult. Nor was it returning to C, with whom I didn't speak to once on my trip, although living the single-girl life did make me regret I never had the chance to live alone (not that I'm looking for that chance now). I'm just not very happy with where my life is now. Literally. Where it is. I'm not happy with my job, which is fine, but I don't really like my line of work. I just hate living where we live, and it has hermited me in many ways. I'm pretty sure I just made up that word. I spend a lot of time at home (and my hobbies of knitting, spinning, and doing nothing make that easy) and don't get out there and live my life, or meet people, that may make living here easier. Major Catch-22.
Being stuck here, has made it difficult to deal with the second problem. I hate my career, and the fact that I'm good at it actually bothers me. Mika made a point to me on my trip that she found it ironic that she was at law school, and I was selling in corporate America and she felt that I was wasting my intelligence at my job. I thought about that on the whole flight home -- I truly feel like I am getting stupider every day. That being said, because I hope to move in the next year, I don't feel comfortable trying to make a career change or go back to school when I don't know when or where or with whom I am going.
Things have been getting better with C lately, and I think we are going to make it. Although I did just start a hormonally based fight with him, and he's downstairs watching soccer alone while I drink a beer upstairs before 2 in the afternoon. His contract at his awful job ended on the 28th, and he is free to seek other opportunities without having to pay his company back for our relocation.
Oh, you want to know about knitting (I haven't been spinning much lately). I finished one cabled sock, finished one Rosedale sleeve, have made some progress on Thermal and a stockinette sock I started for my trip. Unfortunately, no pictures though, because again, in typical Jenny fashion, I have yet to charge the damn battery for my camera or find my cable.
I'm planning on making some minor changes to the site in the next few weeks so look out for that!
