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Rain showers developing around 9am. Cloudy with temperatures rising towards the mid 60s. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 55%.

What a lousy weather forecast for my day off. Well I had to make the best of it so I went to the nail salon and had my nails done and a brow wax and while I was there I called my cousin to see if she wanted to do lunch. She said yes and I made arrangements to pick her up at her house at noon. I was done at the salon by a little before 11 I had an hour to kill. I stopped by the florist where I had gotten the flowers for my cousin's funeral. When I was there ordering the flowers the owner said she was looking for help.

I have been toying with quitting my job, it is getting rather boring. I just sit in a large storage room at a huge table all day and arrange records all in the same exact order, according the the New York State Health Department. These are records of paitents who have been discharged after a brief stay for rehab, usually due to a broken limb or hip, etc. Then I put the record in a box, records the box number on a spreadsheet and tuck it on a shelf. I was telling the owner of the florst shop that I want to do a job that I have chose because I like it, not take a job out of need. For instance, when I got out of school I took a job with the state of New York working as a secretary(we were called secretaries back then). I took that job because New York State offered excellent benefits and I needed health insurance and a nice pension plan. I left there when my daughter was born to be a stay at home mom after 10 years of working. When my daughter was old enought to go to pre school at age 3 (for two days a week) i took a job at the school where she went to get a discount on her tuition. Everytime she went up a grade and increased her school days I would increase my work week, it was a perfect situtation. When she left there in third grade (it was a school that specialized in early childhood development), I went to the university where I worked for 16 years so I could get free tuition for my daughter (which would have amounted to over 100,000 for a four year degree from this school). Then after she graduated from there and my father was in a nursing home, I got the job I am currently in so I could be closer to him and oversee his care. I do not regret for one minute any of these jobs and I had excellent experiences in all of them and made many good friends that I still keep in touch with; but I want to do something now that is interesting for me. I don't have any experience in floral arrangments, but I am a quick learner and I would just do grunt work. I enjoy working with the public and I told her I am good with computers with she seemed to think would be good for helping with billing.

We hit if off and I spent about 45 minutes with her. She said this is her slow time and that things will pick up again in late summer. She took my number and said she would call me if things got busy and I could come and and we could try each other out. See if I could do the job and if she liked my work. I told her I was also a wee bit OCD about organization and she said she was too.

So, I think in two weeks or so I am going to give my two weeks notice and if the florist job does not pan out I will look for something else. My husband says it's ok if I just want to stay home but I know I need to be doing something, so we will see how this works.