I have not been active on this blog or malmokkobags Facebook for a while. Not because I got exhausted, but because there were a lot of changes in my life.
1) My husband got his first job after graduation.
He finally said good-bye to school life and started working as IT engineer.
2) I got a new job.
I finally decided to slow down my career and changed my job. Bye bye to publishing and hello to the new world; secretary at a medical research institute.
Many of my friends still wonder if I could be satisfied with the new job---they think I am too "control freaky" to be a secretary. I have worked here for over 5 weeks and I still like the job. I don't have to work 10 hours every day, have enough energy to cook dinner and prepare lunch box ( I never cooked when I worked as editor). Even now I cannot believe that I may leave my office precisely at 17:45 pm!
3) I join sewing class
One evening my husband took me to a local sushi bar near our apartment. It's a very small sushi bar and has only counter seats. A couple was next to us and we began talking together about our cat and job and it turned out that she is a professional dress maker. I asked her if she has sewing class. She did not, but she offered me a private lesson. I learn how to sew at her place twice a month. She teaches from how to choose fabric, adjust a pattern to our actual body size etc.
4) Rotteline became 1 year old.
Our cat Rotteline became 1 year old in May. We will have a birthday party for her :)