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It’s really good to have a job. Yes, I know that seems obvious. But, since I’ve had my job back with my old company, I’ve been more productive (as far as tasks go, but not as far as writing goes as evidenced by this blog) in the last 48 hours than I have ever been before in the last year.

I was really nervous as I drove the familiar route back to work this morning. When I had interviews, I’d drive to the company, sit there for 30 minutes in the parking lot, be totally nervous, and then want to throw up. As I said to a friend, I had the advantage; I didn’t have to sit in the parking lot, because, today, I could go right into the corporate office, be nervous, and throw up!

As I walked the hallways at my old place of work, I saw many people I knew; and, it all came back to me. Well, the biggest part, the people I worked with, that didn’t come back to me at all. But today, most of them were with me by way of email.

When I bumped into yet another former co-worker, he said, “Welcome home!” I was stunned by what he said, but at the same time, I did feel like I was home again. It was a home I had lived in and loved for only a few years, but it had felt like a lifetime.

I had no real home to go to, given that both my Mom and Dad had died several years ago. I hadn’t been “home” in years. Yet today, when I was in my cubicle, I felt like I had clicked my heels, and I could finally say, “There’s no place like home.” ♥