Lets see… we moved back to Sacramento area in July. I’ve been here before, many years ago. It was not planned. Well maybe far in the future but not at this stage of our lives.
You’ll hear me vent, cry, complain, shout, whisper, jump for joy, laugh and have fun. I needed a place to share my thoughts, concerns and life in general. This may never be read by anyone but me, and I’m ok with that.
I’ll give you some back ground. We used to live in the San Francisco bay area. I’ve lived there most of my adult life. I loved it there. I was happy there. I loved my job. My kids were happy. Two grown, one in high school. Then life took one of those curves you don’t see coming. In April my mom was in a really bad accident. We are lucky she lived. She spent weeks in the trauma ICU and now resides in a skilled facility. We don’t honestly know if she’ll ever leave. I drove up on weekends as much as I could. My sister was doing the day to day things for her since she lived in the same town. Which wasn’t fair, but we were dealing with it the best we could since it’s just the two of us.
Then in May came the 60 day notice to vacate the house we had been renting for 22 years. I won’t lie we had a great rent situation. Houses in the area rented for at least twice as much as we were paying. All were out of our price range. We made the hard decision to move up north to be closer to family and help with my mother. There were a few problems that came with that move. I had to leave my job. And my 16 year old daughter had to decide whether to move with us or live with her dad full time.
I thankfully stayed on with my employer as a very part time employee, but not enough to pay the bills so job hunting I went. I applied to so many job sites and temp agencies I lost track. Very few call backs. I finally got a break when one of the agencies called about a temp job in accounting. Not my field, but coming from medical billing and office manager I had basic accounting knowledge. I’ve now been there for 3 months and may be hired on permanently. Not the job I was looking for, but for now it’s ok. I’m still doing work for two doctors for billing. Medical office and medical billing is all I’ve known for over 20 years.
And my 16 year daughter, she is living full time with her dad. So I went from sharing my daughter 1/2 the time to being the every other weekend parent. Big blow to me. But I understand. I was 16 once. She has her school, friends and sports.
That’s the gist of where I am so far. All be it the cliff notes version.