Tales from the night shift

I am back sort of.  A ton of stuff has happened in the two months that I haven't blogged.  I will list them in order:

1.) Sold all of the animals

2.) Sold a ton of our earthly possessions

3.) Packed up the house

4.) Flew on a plane to Texas

5.) Started working as an RN on a med/surg/peds/tele unit 

6.) Got 10 new chickens

7.) Started working night shift

8.) Accidentally got a cat

9.) Started blogging again

It was hard to leave Oahu, but part of me was glad, the last year there was a struggle on a lot of different levels, the top two being financially and emotionally.  It is hard when you don't have a clear idea of what you are going to do and how you are going to get there.  I was super frustrated about not being able to find work as an RN, I guess I could have stayed and worked as an LPN forever, but I didn't suffer through school for nothing, so in some ways the move has been good. I feel like I have my fighting fire or inner strength back or whatever you want to call it.  I still have some feelings of sadness, but I just shove them back into their box where they belong.  I will deal with them later.  

The new chickens are great, I am not emotionally attached to any of them, and quite frankly I can't tell them apart.  They are all red star production layers who will hopefully in three months time begin laying large brown eggs.  The farmstead is going to start back up, it just might take a little more time to get the wheels spinning.  We would love to get a dairy goat again, and also some ducks this go round.  We brought the rabbit wringer with us so I am sure we will get some more rabbits.  The cat was truely an accident.  We stopped at a gas station and the cat jumped in the car.  I am sure it belonged to someone as it seemed totally lost outside, I posted on craigslist that I found a black cat, but so far no takers.  We named the cat Saber Tooth.... not sure where that name came from, but it sounded like a good idea at the time.  He is kind of a pain in the butt.... I am regretting the choice of gas stations.  

The new job is pretty cool so far, I think I am still in the honey moon phase.  I am sure I will come to loathe it eventually, but for now I don't mind going to work.  I am working the night shift, I have very mixed feelings about it.  On one hand it pays way more and the pace is slower than days, on the other hand it means that I am awake all night on my nights off in small town Texas... you can read that as 'absolutely nothing to do'.  The challenge is staying occupied at night time and not becoming a weird internet troll.  If you note the time that I wrote this blog entry you will see it is around 3 in the morning.... so much for not being a weird internet troll.  I suppose I could start playing world of warcraft, a level 90 dark elf would be within my grasp.  I did find a gym that is open 24/7 so hitting the gym has suddenly become a very attractive way to spend my time.  I suppose that will be for the best, I haven't been careful about my diet lately.  

So this newish blog will be about me finding creative ways to stay occupied on my nights off, and about my forays into homesteading here in Texas, and how well that works out being that I am a creature of the night.