So probably no one knows this on here, but my job is not easy and is not really my forte... My degree is aerospace engineering and that's the line of work I will hopefully stay in, but this particular job is no longer right for me.  It all came to a head with a "sit down" meeting with my bosses the DAY I came back from a 10 day vacation to Panama (read previous blog for info on that trip).  After this meeting I prayed alot, cried alot, and was generally extremely bummed...  Then I realized God was wanting me to leave this position, and as soon as I made that decision, it felt like this HUGE weight had been lifted from my shoulders.  I also felt I needed to tell my management because I am lead on lots of projects and we needed to start planning to hand those over to others.  So that started a clock on July 14th counting down to when I'd leave.  I was able to make them see that leaving in 2 weeks would not even closely be possible due to all my tasks!!  So my end date is August 15th, which is actually 5 weeks from the day I decided I needed to leave. 

Since then, I have been applying all over the place and had 1 interview and offer, but I'm not interested in it.  This week I have 3 interviews and 2 of those jobs I think I'd love.. and they invovled travel which i love!

Another change in my life is that my girlfriend who I get to fly almost for free with is leaving her job at the end of September... so I have to get in all my fun flying prior to then!!  Wish me luck there...

And yet another change is that I think it's time to leave my church.  I'm currently church shopping, but I have found an amazing singles group at a church near my house!!  The fellowship and worship there is so wonderful and I really love the group!

This week has been extra fun because we had a supposed Hurricane coming to wipe us out... so NASA gave us a day and half of leave, kind of like a snow day really.  It was awesome, especially since Tropical storm Edouard basically passed us by with very little rain and never became a Hurricane even!  So the past 2 days, I've gotten in all sorts of crazy amounts of sewing.  I'd taken a summer "break" from sewing since I'd been doing so much of it in the fall and spring of this year.  I picked up last week because I'm working on my girlfriends wedding dress and needed to get it in a state for her to try on when she comes to town this weekend.  So in the past week and 2 days I've done the following:

For the wedding dress: I made a satin trained skirt, made a chiffon under dress, did finishing work on a sating bodice.

For my stuff: I made a black velvet hoop skirt, a set of tight balck velvet sleeves with lots of pearling, finished beading my gold underskirt on both the front and back side, made a new white and black purse with lots of beading, made gold silk bloomers for my fairy costume, redid the back of a bodice to add more eyelets and a higher privacy panel, and reglued the eyes on my zebellini's. 

So from my "to do" sewing list, I only have about 3 real needs left to finish before fall and a few ones I could do if I have time and effort!!!  Yeah for being productive and having the desire and time to do stuff again!!!

Pray for my interviews and my new job... I hope to have something set in stone by end of this week early next week.