Good Deed Fun Monday!

We have been asked to perform a good deed. We had two weeks in which to accomplish this request. I loved this idea and I can’t wait to read everyone’s posts!

I had lofty goals. I was hoping that I would be able to do much more for this Fun Monday. I have always wanted to volunteer at a food bank here in Houston. I have frequently thought of joining in on the Thanksgiving and Christmas meals for the homeless. I really wanted to help out at the Astrodome after Katrina.

Intentions . . . , yea, yea.

In the past two weeks I have moved a car full of crap and 3 cats across Texas. I have started working at a high-intensity job. I have ate a lot of sushi.

What I have not done is any good deed outside of the default good deed I hoped to not have to use. I didn’t want to pull this card. But I am.

My good deed is coming here. From my home in New Mexico to a hotel in Houston.

I was asked by my old law firm, if I could cover for “Mary’s” maternity leave shortly after she found out that she was pregnant. I stated that if my job at home (if there was a job) didn’t interfere, that I would definitely help out.

I didn’t look for a job in New Mexico until we had lived there over 6 months. I started looking for something just a few months before I was scheduled to come to Houston, and so in my interviews, it was known that I would be leaving for at least a 2 month period, which with the vacation we took at the beginning of August, is actually a 3 month period.

I was eventually hired for a temporary position. The president hired me with the intention of seeing if I was a worthwhile employee. He hired me for a menial position, with the intent to see if I was sane and when I returned to town, he would hire me as a permanent employee in a much higher and much more desired position. Apparently, I fooled him, he intends to hire me when I return.

So this is my good deed. I left my love, I gave up my life in New Mexico, put my life on hold to come to Houston, my old town, and live in a hotel with two angry cats, drink Shiners all alone at night, in order to help my old law firm make it through the time when Queen Bee Mary is birthing a baby.

As for me, I am enjoying green grass, good food, old friends, and humidity. Ah, big city living. Love it!!