Change

Ohhh another organizational change at my office. It makes for interesting times! Big wigs were in from the corp. office to make the announcement to our department (division? no idea.) and by big wigs I don't mean like the super big ones who run the entire operation, just the ones who directly impact our division. There was a major-ish change, a key person shifted to what one might call a dubious role, AT BEST. As it was explained to me: When someone doesn't excel in a leadership position it doesn't mean they shouldn't be given an opportunity to excel individually. Ha. Essentially, what that means is that the person in that leadership position sucked and so now they aren't in that position anymore and they've been given responsibilities that are self contained, or some shit. I think everyone worries about their job, but honestly, I can only put so much mental energy into that kind of thing and then I just have to get busy doing my job and hoping that what I bring to the table is valued. The end of work talk. It is boring. I'm half asleep just writing about it.

I looked up the benefits of being an only child. I needed to see the other side of the coin, because the only one I ever see is the one that seems lonely and isolated and with no one to play with. Turns out, there are benefits, and apparently 20% of American families have only one child. That's a high number, apparently, compared to previous decades. I don't know what the answer is for us. My husband makes compelling arguments for having only one, and then flips himself upside down and talks about having a little girl and gets all mushy and "well, maybe....". Our age factors in, in a big way. We are not young people! So we'll just see. I think we're going to hang out with "I don't know" for a little while longer.