I Have Surfaced!

Dear Fellow Stampers! I have been on an interesting journey for over a month and during this time there has been little to no time to stamp. BUT NOW........there will be MORE than enough time. I have taken a new job and moved to Seattle!! This has been rift of much thought and prayer and consideration of every angle and opportunity. For many years, I have been in a position where work has taken over and just driven my personal life into the ground. I faithfully did my work as to the Lord and my best to contribute to developing a quality system to support all the requirements demanded of it. There has been little to no help through the years, but I kept plugging thinking I could make a difference. An old friend who gave up on our company a year ago, sent me a link to an opportunity that she thought I might find interesting and was a good fit for my skill set in quality/regulatory affairs. I applied just as a fleece to see if an old dried up regulatory/quality person had any value elsewhere, because I was sure I had no value where I was. After several months and a series of interviews, I was offered the job - an amazing job with a team of about 10 working with me to support about 30% of the responsibility I currently had. I snapped it up! But it meant moving. So I gave my notice, my husband retired after about 37 years of teaching and we are in transition. Jeff will finish the school year, but I am already here, my first day was Monday and I am having a ball. I have a beautiful temporary apt which I just moved into tonight, a view of the harbor where I just saw a ferry come in and a great group of co-workers who I am willing to go to the mat for and roll up my sleeves and help in any way I can. WOW!! The Word says God will provide abundantly beyond what we think or ask and I can stand up on a chair and tell you it's TRUE! I am sad to leave my church and dear friends, but I just finally drew a line in the sand and said, "I am tired of giving up my life for a corporate machine with a value system which I can no longer embrace or even support." SO I packed up a few boxes, including my basic stamp stuff and a little bit of paper and I will come home to this little apt after a challenging but effective work day, make a cup of tea, a bowl of soup and look out at the harbor and have a life. I can hardly wait til Jeff gets here. SO, hopefully I have not wrecked any of the small following of fellow stampers I had accumulated. I am back in the stampin' chair!! I promise!!! And if Puget Sound can't inspire me than I am in big trouble! I think I will be able to come up with some great stuff looking out on this view of God's handiwork.

TTFN!!!

Artha