These are some crazy times we’re living in.\u00c2\u00a0 Between the Eurozone meltdown and the debt ceiling crisis here at home, work can sometimes feel like a battle zone.\u00c2\u00a0 I can tell you this much, there is a lot of panic and massive mood swings floating about in the markets.<\/p>\n
And then, of course, my husband’s company announced layoffs and promptly let a bunch of people go.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily he made it through this time but they were pretty clear about the fact that they aren’t done.\u00c2\u00a0 He works in the same industry as I do but right now he’s working for one of those quasi-government agencies so layoffs are pretty rare (unlike investment banks which go through a routine “pruning” exercise every year or every few months it seems these days) and that\u00c2\u00a0makes\u00c2\u00a0this all the more that disturbing.<\/p>\n
But maybe this is just\u00c2\u00a0God’s way of\u00c2\u00a0hinting at the fact that I really need to work on trusting Him<\/em> and not in my own plans, as I love to do.<\/p>\n Of course, the hubby and I imediately started making contingency plans for what we’d do if he does lose his job in the near term.\u00c2\u00a0 (Among them?\u00c2\u00a0 Move to Arizona -\u00c2\u00a0which surprised me because if two Cali-born-and-raised-never-lived-outside-of-perfectly-temperate-year-round-weather people like us could consider moving away, the situation here must\u00c2\u00a0look pretty bleak.\u00c2\u00a0 (Hm….yup, sure does!).\u00c2\u00a0 Still don’t know if I could do it, but I never thought it’d be something I’d even THINK about).<\/p>\n Guess old habits die hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These are some crazy times we’re living in.\u00c2\u00a0 Between the Eurozone meltdown and the debt ceiling crisis here at home, work can sometimes feel like a battle zone.\u00c2\u00a0 I can tell you this much, there is a lot of panic and massive mood swings floating about in the markets. And then, of course, my husband’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing","category-the-grind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}