I was going to write about online scams, but it went in a different direction.

     Every once in a while I look for a "better job."  I do have it pretty good now.  I get to stay home, lounge around eating chocolate and watching soaps all day.  No, not really, I'm kidding.  Seriously, I don't have any gas expenses really.  I don't need a fancy wardrobe or pretty shoes.  They just get spit up on anyway.  I have my weekends off and I'm home when my kids get home from school.  I know that my clients/families appreciate what I do.  When I think of getting another job, I feel bad that I will have to tell them.  I will be doing this for a few more years though, we just bought a new swing set.
     So I try to keep writing and working on my book, hoping that someday the opportunity that I am waiting  for will come up.  The opportunity that will allow me to move on from this to something a little less like diapers, spit up, and the occasional outright vomit.  It would be nice to not work ten hour shifts and be able to go to my children's sporting and other events without ripping apart my entire schedule.  If I take off, I don't get paid.  That's life, I know.
     I looked in the paper yesterday and saw that a new lodge was opening.  It has a hotel, restaurant, banquet hall, etc.  So I thought back to all the time I spent in food service and housekeeping, and all the time I spent doing correspondence courses in Hotel & Restaurant Management and Catering & Gourmet Cooking and Business Management.  The owners of the lodge were advertising a job fair.  They need to hire at every level.  My heart filled up, thinking that this could be my way out.  Then I remembered that we just spent almost a thousand dollars on a swing set for the business.  I also thought about all the gas and the clothes that I would have to spend money on to have a job like the one I would have applied for at the lodge.  Dreams crushed?  I don't know.  I have pretty much moved on from that part of my life.  Still, the mind wanders there from time to time.
     I enjoy my writing and I am comfortable here for now.  I am still looking forward to that opportunity.  It will come.  I will be ready.