Well I called work today since I can't seem to get anybody to call me for an interview for a new job and I asked them if there was anything on day shift available until/if we get called back from the night shift layoff. The HR director offered me a job on the forklift in receiving so I said yes ad I go back to work tomorrow at 7 am. After that I messaged one of the fellas I worked with on night shift and he told me he just got a message from our (night shift's) Boss and was told that if we don't report to work in the next three days to day shift we would be terminated per the contract (with the union[?]). No one told me about that. I presume the HR director was going to call me today to tell me(?) but I called first. Anyway it goes I'm just happy to be back to work and have a fighting chance against the bills and the mortgage and just trying to live. I would rather be back on the night shift but I was told that we would probably be starting that back up again soon anyway.

     In any case, I still have my resume out to a lot of places so who knows; maybe something better will come along. Something with one of the larger corporations where stability might be a little more assured than it sometimes is at my current. Of course, I've been at my current job for nearly eight years now so I almost feel guilty about looking around for something else. But I try to remind myself to be a little selfish in this regard, which is contrary to my nature but sometimes one must at least explore other options to see if one can better one's position.

     But at least now I can (hopefully) breathe a little easier and maybe now I can get off my butt and start to write and submit pieces for publication!

     Not that that is guaranteed to go anywhere but if it does, hey hey!! :S

I was watching a show on the paranormal last night when a thought occurred to me; if, when I was a little kid one of my snowmen came to life like in Frosty the snowman, I probably would have ran like h£ll! I fact I think this is not dissimilar as to how I would react:

Hey Abbott

     This subject doubtlessly deserves more time but I'm tired and I want to put this down so I at least have a first draft.

     I was on Facebook and somebody wrote that he wondered why the love that leads to marriage fades, why it seemed that so many people loved each other so they got married and then after a number of years end up hating each other. I guess that does seem to happen a lot. I have thought about it myself.

     I have thought about it before. I think it has a lot to do with people not understanding relationships and that they change with us as we inevitably change and grow over time. If people demand/expect a relationship to be the way it was at the beginning throughout the lifetime of the relationship then they will be disappointed. I seem to have observed that there are many stages a relationship goes through, like the mellowing of wine. If one can accept and appreciate the maturing relationship it can be quite a beautiful experience; a third dimension of life created by and existing within the lives of the two participants who constitute the relationship. It doesn't have to be boring, it doesn't have to be frustrating; those are the negative emotions which are a result of an inability to see beyond the first stage, of always wanting to freeze time and stay in the first fire of love, the excitement of the new. And one misses out on a lot of beauty that way. This is what I think anyway.

     Or maybe I've thought about it too much?