Hello Again, Working World

The blog has been on the back burner, along with many things I had been doing on a daily basis since June.  Last week I started working in Philadelphia.  My new roles as both business professional and wife, are two very different roles for me, that I need to acclimate myself to simultaneously.  Both very positive changes in my life, might I add.  I had a few months to begin figuring out "wife", and as part of that role, I worked out different ways to live on a budget (couponing being one of them).  I think I got pretty good at it.

Just as I started to adjust to how my day is carried out, I got a job (finally)!  I find it so rewarding to know that I am financially contributing to our family again, along with how nice I find it to be taking the train into the city, dressing like a business woman (I never thought I dressed like I would've like to as a teacher), and being a part of the "hustle and bustle".  As odd as it sounds, I forgot how much I liked being at a desk.  I find it much less stressful when I get to do my job without the impressionable eyes of twenty-something middle schoolers watching every move you make.  Don't get me wrong, I love teaching, and hope to teach again, but I don't hate working in an office.  (I know, I have only been there a week.)

Anyway, I think my point is that all of a sudden there aren't enough hours in a day.  I told the hubby the other day, teachers do have it made, I had no idea.  I used to hate that my long commute as a teacher meant I didn't get home until 4:30.  Now, I don't get home until about 6:30 and I think, "How in the world am I going to do anything other than eat dinner, shower, and get to bed".  Luckily, I married a great cook, and when he gets home first and decides to cook, I know I am in for a treat.

So, how does everyone do it?  Wife, Worker, and Independent Woman?  Is it possible to be all three?  Figuring my day out, the breakdown seems I have eleven hours as a worker, require eight hours of sleep, which leaves me five hours to do everything else (both as wife and woman).  I will give it another few weeks and hope I can tackle the day to day needs of the house.  Well, I hope I can get the laundry done at the very least.  If I can manage to extend the day to 26-28 hours, maybe I will be able to stay more on top of the couponing!

;-)