Ya know, it really sucks when a friend drives across country to visit you and pretty much the entire time she's there, one or the other of you is sick and as such, pretty much the entire time she's there, you do nothing but stay home and try to get well.

That's pretty much how sister-friend Stephanie's visit went.  She's leaving today, heading back to the solitude of the Maine woods and I'll miss having her around. The good news is that she's leaving much healthier than she arrived.

We did manage to get out of the house over the past few days and do some shopping, even managing to visit one of our favorite-type stores (Hobby Lobby).  Yesterday we decided to venture further than two miles from home and went to the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Gardens (if you live in the area and have never been there, it's worth a visit).  Someday when she visits, we're going to get out and actually go do something!

Anyway, after Steph leaves, I get to return to my regularly scheduled programming.  Except, I am seriously considering changing channels.

Not in a life-changing-new-experiences-OMG-you-did-what-kind of way. No, I'm just considering going back to work.

Tom doesn't really want me to work full time, however in order to have benefits (such as health insurance), it's going to have to be full-time. Retail generally doesn't hire full-time with benefits as far as I know (tell me differently if I'm wrong!) and getting back into the food industry isn't especially appealing.  I hate accounting even though I did it for over twenty-five years.

But in a sick sort of way, I kinda miss the construction business.  So that's what I'm going to look in to. Even though I'm in a completely new area from where I spent all my time in the industry, construction is an extremely small world. However, I will accept any leads ...

... Any body know somebody who may know a friend of a cousin of his sister-in-law's brother who just might be in the construction business? And has no ties to the mafia?