First, I randomly picked up a few new followers recently, which is shocking considering my recent absence here. But…welcome! I’m happy you found me, however that may have happened.
I recently hit my one-year anniversary of moving to Las Vegas to work for KVVU. And as significant periods of time often do now, it feels like both yesterday and a long time ago that I made that change. It was frantic and flustered, as all of my moves end up being. It’s just inevitable. I loathe and dread the process and I never get any better at it. I remember laying curled up on the bare mattress in my son’s room, feeling like death warmed over as the movers in Fayetteville finished loading up the truck that would take my belongings west. Parts of the transition are a blur. And before I knew it, I was punching the clock at FOX5.
I saw some old friends recently, and naturally, they asked me how the job was going. Without even thinking about it, I offered up a concise but accurate reply.
“It’s…a lot.”
I didn’t really have many expectations about the position coming in, but it’s safe to say that the job has thrown more at me than I anticipated. I knew that the pace would be faster. Between a substantially larger market and a station that runs live news for two-thirds of the day, there’s no way it wouldn’t be. But it’s bigger beyond even that. It never stops.
Lately, work has made me feel like I’m treading water and trying not to drown. It’s an unpleasant feeling. I hope to, at the very least, get back to a slow crawl or even a doggie paddle soon. I’ll keep you posted. But my stress levels are most certainly in the “unhealthy” range at the moment. There’s work. There are…sigh…ongoing medical issues, including more recent ones.
(Spoiler alert: Getting old really sucks.)
And there’s personal stuff weighing on me as well.
I was correct. It is a lot. But I’ll get through it somehow, because there’s really no alternative. Thanks for hanging with me, dear readers. I’ll try to be more active here. But the truth is that I’m generally beaten down and tired at the moment—physically, mentally, and emotionally—and most days, after being on the keyboard in front of a screen at work all day, repeating that at home is the last thing I want to do.
I also think that none of you signed up to hear me bitch and whine about life. So…I’m not sure what I’m going to do about posting here. But I’ll figure something out.
Thanks to all of you for sticking with me. I hope to have more interesting things to write about here soon.
Hey CC, I've been worried about you and your absence! Glad you're still hanging in there xx
Welcome back stranger. Good to see you again. 😊