It has been a really busy, yet really not busy week for me if that makes any sense. Although I really have not done a lot this week the few things that I have done have been very big. They have not taken a lot of time, they have just been very big.
To start the week I accepted a job offer with a new company and resigned from my current job that I have been doing for the past 4.5 years. I am very excited about it, but very nervous at the same time. It is a great opportunity to do what I really want to do, as opposed to my current job where what I am doing is really tangential to what I enjoy.
However, my current company had to make it really hard for me though by turning around and offering me a lot of money on Tuesday. This made for a hard day as I had to decide if I wanted to give up doing what I really wanted to do for a significant chunk of change or should I give up the money to do what I enjoy. Ultimately I turned down the money, but I still hear it calling to me occasionally.
So, I spent all week working on transitioning my current work to new people and filling out paperwork for my new position.
The only thing I have done all week not relating to my job is carve pumpkins. When I do something for a holiday, I go all out. For Christmas I hang close to 10,000 lights. For Halloween I carve a bunch of pumpkins. I also do not carve the generic pumpkins that everyone does. I carve TV and advertisement characters that take me 2.5 hours per pumpkin. This year’s list is:
Pictures will of course come next week after I finish carving and light them all up.