Setting my Priorities

For those of you who have scratched your heads at my odd facebook status updates lately...here is my best attempt to explain what's going on.

When New Year's rolled around, I didn't bother making any real "resolutions." I did join a gym, as a gift from my brother, Dan. I decided that this would be the Year of Lindsay. No more aches and pains, no more weakness. Just me, doing something - anything - for myself, for once. I hadn't even made it INTO the gym once before the effects of this attitude change were bubbling to the surface.

When I looked at my life, I realized that there were a lot of things I could never change. If I wanted to find less stress, more balance, more peace, less pain...I needed to do SOMETHING different. Continuing on with everything in the exact same place and pattern was going to get me nowhere. (Ever read the definition for the word INSANITY?) I realized that the one thing I could change is my job.

(What's my job, you ask? I am the Senior Consultant at my family's bookkeeping and accounting firm. I do accounting work, business consulting, software training, and most of the firm's marketing. I function as the Accounting Department for my clients. It's a great job, I'm good at it, and I love my clients. It's just time for me to move on.)

So, very quickly, I let my stepfather/boss (or boss/stepfather, depending on the task at hand! Kudos to him for playing both roles so well) know that I needed to leave. We put a plan into motion for my last day to be Friday, February 26th.

Where am I going? Nowhere, yet. I have been, bit by bit, communicating with my contacts in the business community and trying to decide what I want to do, which direction I'm headed, what should my next step be? I'm thinking of preparing for the CPA exam, or taking the GMATs so I can start work on my MBA. I know that I want to be working with driven, dynamic people. I want to feel like I'm bettering my community. I need a workplace full of integrity. I'm looking at every opportunity and deciding if it has potential to be the next, best place for me. I can see myself as the Executive Director for a non-profit...someday! Getting from here to there...is a process I have yet to define.

The right job will support me in my priorities to:
1) Kiss my kid
2) Pay my bills
3) Feel fulfilled

I don't think it's asking too much. Do you?

Fun!

We finally made it to Peek-a-boo today. WOW - what a great place! There are several "dramatic play" rooms with themes like bugs & butterflies, baby dolls, musical instruments, and so on. Lots of doll houses. Indoor jungle gyms. Cozy book corners. A painting wall, a jumpy-jump, a kitchen...I mean, this is like the Children's Museum done right. They even have a "dining room," where families can eat whatever snacks they bring. I HIGHLY recommend this place for kids up through pre-k. Here's a link to their site for hours, calendar, etc.

http://www.peekaboocenter.com/index.php

Oh My God

Vi said, "Oh my God," last night.

Dan and I - eyes wide in disbelief - both replied, "Please say "Oh my goodness, Vi. We don't say "Oh my God in our family," almost in unison.

(Note to file: Dan and I said the same thing at the same time. Not a common occurence.)

She continued, "Oh my god, ohmygod, ohmygod!"

We continued, "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, oh my goodness!"

On she went: "Oh my god, ohmygod, ohmygod!"

And us, again: "Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, oh my goodness!"

Then she said, "Oh my godnald, had a farm, E-I-E-I-OOOOOOOO!"

I just about wet my pants I was laughing so hard. She was just gearing up for Old MacDonald, and, well...wasn't enunciating as well as one might hope.

At least she's enjoying music, and not cursing like a pirate!