Starting a New Chapter in My Life

Hi everyone!  Happy Sunday!  I have some big news to share.  A little over a week ago I learned that I am being laid off from my job.  I am one of just over 20 people who made up the list of employees to cut.  At first I was shocked that I made the list in light of what I do for a living, but hey, I guess even payroll administrators are indispensable.   I am very good at what I do.  I should be after doing it for over twenty years.  I can process payroll with both eyes closed and one hand tied behind my back.  That is how good I am at it.  I thoroughly understand payroll and am very familiar with several payroll processing systems.   Anyway, my last day at work is December 28th.  After that day I ride off into the sunset.  My manager is very upset about it but I am not.  I had been feeling for a while that it was time to ride off into the sunset and I blogged about on November 1st.  Here is the post in case you missed it.
   

I did not tell anyone in my family about being laid off for several days.  I did not tell any of my friends either for several days because I did not want to listen to people telling me how sorry they are and giving me that "poor Xenia" look.  I am fine with it and look foward to all things wonderful happening to me in my life.  I have been working for this particular company for nearly six years and made some wonderful friends.  I will be keeping in touch with them and seeing them from time to time outside of the workplace as we have always done.  I welcome change for myself and at the same time wish everyone that I am leaving behind there well.   

After December 28th I will be starting a whole new chapter.  I am very excited about it!!!

I am the author of all of the chapters of my life.  I know where I want to take my life next but I also remain open to all possibilities.  2013 holds more intense spiritual awakening and study but that was going to happen anyway even if I was not laid off.  This was always on my radar because my spiritual growth is the most important thing to me.  Now, notice that I wrote that my spiritual growth is important to me not a religious one.  These are two different things.

I am hoping that this new chapter includes traveling to all the places I ever wanted to see such as England, France, Italy, Spain, Africa and more of Canada.

I hope to be able to fill the rest of the pages of my life with miracles upon miracles.  I have always embraced life and so to me the only way to live is in complete JOY.  I will try not to sweat the small stuff that are really not important at all.  I am usually good at that but every now and then I have allowed others to rope me into nonsense.  

I am following my Yellow Brick Road and I encourage you to do the same.

I am off to see the Wizard that lives within Me.