the noodles

So I read this article online this morning from another blogger about choosing parenthood over career advancement .Essentially it is about working to sustain your life but not over achieving to get that big promotion or raise so you can have a better home life and time with your kids. It is choosing to not invest your all into your job ,but to your family. Obviously, most people have to work. I work full time as well as my husband. I was able to stay home for quite a while with kiddos and I'm so very thankful to that. Going back to work was exciting and sad for me. Excited to have adult conversations , loosen the purse strings and have time outside of the home .Staying home is so very hard. There is no pay, you are over worked, your bosses are mini little tyrants at times and you cannot say screw this shit and quit.So its challenging. But for us , my kids are a little older now and this is what is working for my family. I was also Sad for obvious reasons. I loooove my kids. I am sort of obsessed with them. I can eat them because they are the cutest most fun little (and big) people ever. We laugh a lot together and I, over all ,love being a mom and hanging out with them all. So having less of that made me sad. When I was home, I would fantasize about having this great important position and making an impressive salary. I had that and I quit it. The job was going to be too demanding for me. Take away way to much time from my kids and I was not ready to do that yet. I found another one that I am currently at. I do not love my job. AT ALL. I love that it is convenient for my family. I can go back and forth to my kids school. Be a part of my daughters life during the day for school programs .I can take them to appointments and leave early enough where they can be involved in sports and programs .At this season of my life ,when there is so much to be a part of with my littles I am ok with have a less than mediocre job that gives me extra fun money. This very precious time with them chumps it all. 
            This job though, its less than what I bargained for . Don't get me wrong , I am thankful for my job. The owners are  really the nicest people . I LOOOVE the convenience of it and the freedoms to come and go . I would not get in a lot of places. I am the type of person that makes friends wherever I go. I have never met a stranger. I hug new people all the time.  I  randomly invite people to my house for holidays and any other day just because I love having a house full of people . I am THE people person. People frigan love me dammit. Not the noodles!  The noodles make up about half of the population in my work place.They are literally like wet noodles. No fun to be had. They can be standing next to me at the coffee pot and not a word spoken. They are nice in the sense they aren't going out of their way to be mean, they don't go out of their way for anything really. Its definitely not the workplace vibe I was hoping for or that I have had in the past. I say good morning ,they don't answer. No "how was your weekend?" nothing . EVER. I sit in an office by myself with very minimal interaction with anyone and its so not me. But , again, the convenience of it keeps me there and its honestly a very easy job. 
Today I feel hit an all time low. It was an average day with zero interaction. I went to lunch to meet up with a friend for some chit chat. I go back to office ,park my truck and get out. I see one of the noodles arrive back to office at the same time.  Then this man in a white kidnapper van approaches me and blocks my truck so I just stood there . The noodle looks over at me as she notices this is weird too. So I think ok she is going to linger outside to make sure I'm safe. Thank you noodle ! NOPE. The man is just sitting there so I give him a very chipper Hello! He asks if I like plants and I say umm yes? are you trying to give me plants ?? He says ok and turns his van and backs it in towards me. He hops out and opens the back of the van! He pulls out all of these plants and starts opening them and says come closer so you can see, come in the van i have more ! At this point I'm seriously getting nervous. I look over to the noodle who is standing outside the door of office. I think ok, I'm safe. She's standing there and I gave her a look like do you see this and don't you leave me here . She looks concerned. The man is now telling me to come over and get a better look and assuring me that he won't bite me. I'm thinking no you're going to steel me and try to shove me in your kidnapper van with your weird  golf plants. I look at the noodle again . She looks at me and she runs in the building AND LOCKS THE FRIGAN GLASS DOOR! I shit you not people! I looked at the guy and say no thanks my boss is waiting for me and I need to get to work. He very well could of legitimately been trying to sell me plants . But you do not corner a woman with a kidnapper van and tell her to come inside of the van to get a better look. CREEPY!! So i bang on door to get in. For whatever reason they always lock this glass door like someone is going to come in this random building and take all of us. Just another weird thing. I say to my boss 'did you see that guy?? he says yeah what was that ???? I call out to the noodle and said " noodle!( i called her by her name obviously ) Why in the world would you leave me out there with him? Her response was " I don't know what I was thinking I just panicked ." I can tell you what you were thinking! You were thinking about your safety and literally ran inside and LOCKED THE DOOR !  WTF!  So now do they not only talk acknowledge me during the day, they literally left me outside to possibly be stolen and die . NOT COOL NOODLES! 

This one is titled "socialization"

 This one is titled "Happy Hour"

You may be asking yourself "what if they saw you taking these action shots? Dont worry, friends, clearly they would have assumed I was dead and walked over me so its ok.

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