Monday, February 18, 2013

Terrible news, and a job offer


The view of Mt. Rainier from my apartment building
Across the bay; downtown is immediately to the right


Sorry for the radio silence the last couple of days, a lot of things have happened.

First, my mother-in-law is critically ill. My husband flew out there Saturday morning to spend what time she has left with her. I stayed behind to work (and because I can't leave the cats alone for an indefinite period of time), but I'll be joining him as soon as he feels the end is nigh. My stepson is flying out this weekend.

So, there's that. She's an awesome lady, truly like a second mother to me. I'm sad, I'm worried, I'm stressed about all these expensive last-minute plane fares, and I'm in a strange city alone.

Fortunately, I have two jobs now. One is as a back-up server at one of the Northwest's top restaurants--but that's strictly on-call work, maybe two or three nights a month right now. The other is full-time, at a cute little wine bar in Fremont. I started there yesterday, and it seems like it will be a lot of fun. But I haven't worked in basically seven weeks, so now my feet and my back have to re-learn how to function. I feel worn out already. (It doesn't help that we found out about my mom-in-law, and I got the job offer, on the same day. Talk about a mixed bag.)

With DH gone, there probably won't be too much cooking going on here. I'm going to eat all the perishable stuff first, in case I have to fly out in the middle of the night on short notice, and work on finding a reliable catsitter.

On an unrelated note, we had a superb day on Friday. Sixty degrees, and not a cloud in the sky. You could see all the mountains around the city that are normally obscured by cloud cover. See pictures, above. I could get used to this sixty degrees in February thing.

3 comments:

  1. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

    While you are out and about, stop over in Ballard and have a cupcake for me from Cupcake Royale, best cupcakes ever!

    Miss Seattle and the PNW so darn much, if fiance could get a job offer out there we'd be on our way there too.

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  2. I'm very sorry to hear about your mother-in-law. The jobs are a blessing. Best to your family.

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  3. Sorry to hear about your Mom in law, this must be a difficult time for you all.

    That is an awesome view out your window - worth the move alone

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