Sunday morning. A very quiet Sunday morning. Matt is out elk hunting on the second-to-last day of his elk season. It would be super swell if he gets something. Several hundred pounds of meat in the freezer would be terrific. If not, well, we've still got last year's deer. I don't really mind game meat one way or the other, but I can't say I love it. Still, it's nice to not have to go buy a bunch of meat.
It's foggy and rainy outside, and my motivation reflects the weather. It's days like this when I really wish I still lived in Boise. There were always girlfriends to connect with, and if you felt like being alone and still doing something, you could always hit Barnes & Noble for the afternoon or treat yourself to the dollar theatre. The lack of girlfriends has been Cascade's biggest shortcoming. There's really no one to call and say, "You wanna come over and watch Buffy and make brownies?" (And that sounds so good right now.)
Matt and I have actually been considering moving back. There's a job opening down there that we're 99% sure he'd get--it's just a lateral transfer, but one of those things that would be good for his career in the long run. I don't know for sure what I would do. There's a possibility that my current employer would give me a transfer, though I almost certainly wouldn't be doing the same thing. I'd probably be a desk jockey of some sort, which doesn't sound all that bad at this point. Alternatively, I'm thinking of taking a sabbatical and finding something else to do for a while. Working at Barnes & Noble actually sounds really good. The money is crap, but I think we'd do well enough in the real estate transaction that our mortgage would lower and I wouldn't have to make a lot. I'm also thinking it might be fun to go to beauty school. Yeah, me. I'm debating getting into massage or possibly becoming an aesthetician and giving facials and stuff. It sounds interesting and I could be my own boss.
I don't know. Matt's opportunity doesn't close for another week or so, and we've got to talk about it some more. I can't really see a downside, other than the fact that it would be a lot of change. But I can deal with change. It's stagnancy that bugs me.