Life in the Slow Lane

Life in the Slow Lane...that's me right now. And what better place than Nashville to be living it? First of all, let's get literal about this for a minute. Back East, if you had two traffic lanes both going in the same direction, one was meant for slow moving vehicles and one was for faster moving vehicles. Apparently the rules of the road are different in the South. One lane is for slow moving traffic, and the other lane is for slower moving traffic. There's no such thing as a fast lane, or a passing lane. Slow and slower, take your pick.

Now to the figurative use of the phrase, 'life in the slow lane'. Let's see...I'll recount some of the highlights of my weekend, which would be some other people's lowlights. I spent my Saturday night at a birthday party for a 13-year old. By 9:30, I was so exhausted I couldn't see straight and had to get home to go to bed. My Friday night was so thrilling that I can't even remember it at all. Tonight, Sunday, I headed out to East Nashville to try out a new church. Got to the address and all the lights were out. I ended up driving around East Nashville to look at the quaint homes, then up Gallatin Pike to see what was up that way, and the highlight of my night was stopping at a drive-thru doughnut shop to order an apple fritter. They were all out of apple fritters. I replaced it with something that tasted just like those ice cream Drumsticks you used to get at the school cafeteria. I didn't like them then, and I still don't like them. I had ventured out tonight with higher expectations all around, and let's just say that none of those expectations were met in the least. I drove home sorely disappointed thinking that I should have either just stayed home, or called a friend to hit the town with. Huge letdown of an evening, all my plans were foiled. I think I won't let that happen again.

On the job front, I have an interview on Wednesday morning. I don't get my hopes up anymore. The last job interview I even was able to obtain was back in December, and after the interview I was told that it was between myself and one other woman. Then the board had their budget meeting for 2009 and it was decided that there was not enough money to fill the position at all at this time. Each time I've gotten excited about something, it has just fallen through. I'll go to the interview and will just not have any expectations one way or the other. If I hear back, great. If I don't, no surprise. I also am taking the civil service test that same afternoon. I surely hope I hear something as a result of that. Again, I won't be holding my breath, though!

I look forward to starting a new week tomorrow. I am not a 'New Year's Resolutions' type of person, but I do plan to attack this new week with a renewed vigor and outlook on life. I'm going to make some changes, 'delete' some things out of my life in order to better pursue happiness and health, lower my expectations in certain areas but raise them in others, remind myself that people are people and you cannot count on them and it's just your own fault if you do, and I'm going to 'clear some clutter' -- do some housekeeping -- in my life. Once that clutter is out of the way, a nice, new path to better things will have been made! I actually really look forward to it.

So, this entry is a bit on the more sedate side this time. But that's what you get when you live Life in the Slow Lane!!!