Paula Rae

 March 2020: I showed up at work.  If you don't know me, I LOVE MY JOB. I loved it when I started in the mailroom after navigating stay at home mom life with part-time jobs for a few years. I read/listened to over 400 books my first year (Fun Fact: I also LOVE books). I still love it today as I work in Talent Acquisition and I'm wayyyyyy too busy for books on the clock. It's definitely a toxic situation. I have to make myself clock out. But that's not today's topic...  A couple weeks prior in February, we'd had a company meeting at Dave & Buster's. I'd played my first VR game with a group of my favorites and had a ball. Playing games, laughing, talking. This was our normal.  But today when I walked in... today our CEO was in a track suit (out of character for her) and she was speed walking (which is normal). My tiny office was in the same wing as hers so as I was heading towards my door, she summoned me. Today she was strategizing the quickest, most

I'm baaaaaaack. For real this time 😂 For each and every individual person who stopped me in the store, at the bank, at the mall asking "WHERE IS THE BLOG🤔", thank you. I had no idea you were reading. Had no idea that anyone even cared about my lil blog. Apparently, a lot of us are voyeurs at heart and that's ok. Me too! My apologies. I needed a minute... or 2... or 3... or SEVERAL years to figure me out. I tried to start blogging again a few times and just couldn't get it together. I was stuck. It's been a journey getting from critical condition to where I am now.  I was raising kids, most of which are now grown. To raise good, kind humans that I not only love but also really like as individuals has been an amazing journey. I started my job and got a promotion that increased my income by over 22k at the end of my first year. Seven months later, PANDEMIC. I went through a deep depression. DEEP. DEPRESSION. Key words: went through.  One of my dogs died.  I go