Ok. I am on stimulation overload!! Working, new job, visitors, house guests, home projects... AHHHH!!!!!!
I am excited and apprehensive to start my new job as a Psychometrist. I will be working in the same Addiction Centre where I currently work (as an admin assistant), just one floor below. My new job will have much more responsibility, such as administering psychological tests to patients, then scoring them, entering data, creating reports and working on a number of other research and evaluation projects. Lots to learn! Super excited about it, but also nervous. The new union I'll be with offers an awesome education fund so I'm also considering starting my Master of Counseling Psychology next September. The course content can be done online (aside from practicums of course) and I would probably take 5 years or so to do it (it's a 2 year program but I would do it slowly). Lots to process!
We have had many visitors come stay again this year. Fantastic to see and spend time with everyone. Love the type of visits you have with people when you wake up in the morning together, have coffee, take it easy... it's really special. It makes me feel like I still get to see some of the people I love in Vancouver, so I don't miss them so much. It also means a lot of socializing for this introvert. I love to be social and relationships are vital to my life, but as an introvert, my energy levels get restored from downtime (extraverts get revitalized from being with people). So after a week of camping with about 20 people, followed by 2 weekends of BC visitors along with Maria living with us, my emotional centre is taking a bit of a hit! I think we will temporarily close our doors until Maria & Pino have found their own place. Then once we've reestablished our family life, our doors and arms will be wide open again.
The last few weeks have been so busy (including me working full-time in order to appease the doctor I've been working for who was very disappointed that I am leaving already) that I only just unpacked my last suitcase from our vacation! We finished painting our main floor and stairway, and still haven't had time to hang our pictures up; our plan to stain the deck before summer is still waiting; I've been wanting to install a closet organizer to our walk-in closet which is a disaster; we need to continue replacing brass door handles & lighting fixtures; Lucy's fluorescent green room (I'm not kidding!) needs to be painted, along with our bedroom & ensuite (not fluorescent green); and then there's building a foundation in the backyard for our new hot tub (which is underway)! Those on top of just the regular house cleaning and organizing stuff (will the empties ever be sorted and returned??), and I start freaking out!
That's life sometimes, I know. I'm just a bit overwhelmed right now, trying to keep my head above water. Writing helps me sort out my thoughts, put things in perspective, and hopefully find some coping strategies. Breathe.
