The Pod 2.0, and Other News

I'll be totally up front with you here...  Until today, it'd been over a week since I fired up the Rosetta Stone.  But I have a good reason, I swear!  Or, I have a reason at least.

Monday of last week was my last day as a traffic reporter, and I've been working on getting my bearings in a brave new world that doesn't involve the constant grogginess of split shifts.

Okay, to be honest, I was giving myself a bit of a vacation.

For years, I just figured I was kind of a sleepy person.  Turns out it was the working and sleeping in shifts that never let me out of that early-morning haze that most people only have... in the morning.

So, back to the grind.  I spent Sunday of this week re-building The Pod.

The Pod is my little home-made recording studio.  It used to be a free-standing thing in my kitchen made of PVC pipes and moving blankets.  It looked like this:

And inside, was this:

The PVC pipes are long gone now, but the moving blankets now blanket the walls of a closet in our apartment.  I call it The Pod 2.0

I've got a career plan, and it involves talking to myself in a padded room.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, I did work on the Rosetta Stone today.  Still on colors.  I had lunch with a friend yesterday, and he asked me what I could say in Danish.  And the truth is... not much.  I can recognize plenty of words and phrases, but I just don't trust myself to speak the language yet.

I'll let the Danes teach me pronunciation once we get to Copenhagen.

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The Healthy Housewife

It's amazing how you can live a certain way for so long and not realize how unhealthy it was until things change.

I spent 6 years waking up before dawn to do morning radio.  For more than half of that time, I also worked a split shift, going back to work in the afternoon.

After less than a week out of that life, I already feel more normal.  I don't have that just-woke-up feeling all day from getting up so early, and napping between shifts.  My mood has improved.  Even my metabolism seems to be normalizing a bit.

I'm entering a new chapter in my life, in preparation for the big move.  Focusing on getting freelance voiceover jobs, and looking for some temporary office work.  I'm feeling really positive about the changes so far, and the support my friends and family have shown.

It doesn't hurt that I've gotten to spend the past week relaxing in a hotel room with my fiance, who has been working out-of-state.  Playing housewife for a few days isn't so bad when you have hotel staff to clean your room.