10 days until Christmas. And I haven’t gotten a single Christmas decoration out of my attic. The season is just rushing by me… I hear it whooshing by! It doesn’t much feel like Christmas, but why should it? All my decorations are in the attic! What would probably help is if I did some Christmas shopping.
And It was ONE YEAR AGO (a few days ago) that I was laid off. ONE YEAR!?! In a weird way it feels longer than a year. What a year it’s been. At least I can say I am back on track to where I had wanted to be after the reeling had stopped. On my own. Doing my own thing. Every now and then I think back to the train ride in to Philly. And I am so happy I am not riding it. And I think back to the 50 phone calls before 11. I am so happy I am not churning those out… using a computer that couldn’t keep up. So it turned out that last year’s Christmas gift (from God) was a much longer term gift that I ever realized.
So what do you guys want for Christmas?
Coincidentally, I would like to get laid off for Christmas. I have been at the same company for too long, and have 11 weeks of vacation I’m being mandated to take in 2010. As you can imagine, there’s no way that can work. If I get laid off, they’ll have to pay me for my time 🙂