Still Got A Pulse

A friend recently and bitterly complained, "Your blog is dead, Heather. What's up with that?"

Since early April, a whole lotta transitioning has been going on. I've switched jobs, which is an incredibly slow process in Norway, my folks arrived to help take care of Theo since my husband's gone back to work, I traveled to Prague with my new job and now I'm scrambling to learn as much as I can before the end of next week. New job #2 is at a summer program for exchange students at the University (www.uio.no/iss). All hell is about to break loose on June 19th and I have no idea what I'm doing.

Still, as busy as I am about to be, new job #2 feels good. The last job at the Adult Education Center had me stressed out. I was working overtime everyday with tasks that were tedious and unsatisfying. I had to beg my friends in Oslo to plan to meet since I was brain-dead after 5pm. The best I could manage on a daily basis was to give my son his dinner, his bath and to put him to bed before I collapsed. Ugh. Thank god these days are behind me!

I look forward to new job #2. With all that there is do now and with all that I will have to do in the near future, I feel good about it. I'm not brain-dead after 5pm, I totally enjoy the time I have with Mom, Dad, Theo and Anders after work, I started working out again after a year of not, I've picked up my hobbies again, I'm helping my husband finish remodeling the kitchen and I’ve even hit a flea market or two.

The summers in Oslo are so fine with the long, long days of sunlight. As midsummer approaches, I'm glad that I no longer feel as if I'm wasting them.