Back to work and other random thoughts

It doesn’t seem so long ago I was writing about a nine month absence from work only to charge back into the workforce, yet here I am again, after ten months this time, finally settling back into a comfortable office chair. For the rest of this week I’ll be at a company that produces biological doo-dads, and after that I’ll be beta testing some in-house software for an insurance agency for two months. That should take me to almost Christmas. I’ve missed working. It’s amazing how positive your first few days in a new office are. Everyone smiling, everyone interested in who you are and where you’re from. Learning new names, new procedures and finding either make work projects or pre-doing your blog in order to look productive at a desk with nothing much to do.

Things I might find challenging are:

Fighting morning and evening traffic again.
Not being there for my son when he gets in after school
Having the time with Brandon to keep up our homework time
Finding the time to put together suppers and keep up with my housework
Keeping active is a big one. I don’t want to fall back into a routine of complacency
Doing all that and finding a small window that is left for me to unwind. After ten months of having the house all to myself for 6+ hours a day, I worry that I might miss the luxury of not talking. I’ve loved all of the silence in my life. No phones ringing, no TV on, no sound. I like the sound of me puttering at whatever. It’s quiet. Yes, I think I may find life’s noises challenging. Meh, how bad can it be?