day 2 unemployment...

well, today has been quiet.  i stayed home from the gym (a bit sore still) and worked on my resume.  i really hate dealing with my resume.  and every job needs a slightly tweaked version to basically sell your skills.  boring.

so besides resume writing, i'm cleaning and organizing the house a bit.  and of course i had to send an email to my former CEO to thank him for the 1 1/2 years at a job i loved, but to also give my opinion of how some things were handled.  i am a girl who can't keep her pie hole shut.  sometimes i can, but other times it's good to speak my peace and be done.  so, there ya have it!

i'm super excited to see "the master" this weekend:

next week i have one interview set up, and lunch plans with my old coworkers.  and i want to try pickle-ball at the gym.  may as well use the gym membership since it's paid through the end of the year.  if i don't find a job, maybe i'll end up buff.  LOL!

gilly says hello!!!

unemployed, day one...

i thought about sleeping in, but instead went and swam for 25 minutes.  it will take a while to work back up to the hour i was swimming before surgery.  slow & steady...

i still can't believe i went to work on tuesday, got this awesome knitted uterus, and then got shit-canned the next day.  ah well.....

i went to get my haircut last night, and got there too early.  so i walked over to the gift shop next door and the first thing i saw was this card.  perfect message for me.

so after i swam i got on the laptop and worked on my resume.  i have a job interview wednesday next week.  i'm not getting my hopes up.  i need to take my time and find a job that's a good fit.

i meet my former work husbands at chipolte for lunch.  it was so much fun seeing them.  we compared notes over the lay-offs, shared job search info, and laughed our asses off.  nice to know life goes on after the job doesn't go on.

ok, day one was pretty decent.

unemployed, final vlog

this is my final "unemployment vlog" because i got a job today. i was only unemployed for 1 week. i'm real happy about the job. it's less money, but also less stress. i start in 2 weeks. i'm also sick of "vlogging" and i think the whole vlog thing has been an "epic fail" as the kids would say.

groundcat bossed me to blog, so here it is. this took me 10 minutes to create. see what i can do with all this technology?

unemployed, day 6

i look horrible, but cleo is so funny, i'm gonna publish.

unemployed, day 3

walmart now sells booze. chelada is on the top shelf!


vacation planning in the nook.


big ass apple.


kelly has a little bridge and a rainbow diving board.


also, the most beautiful lights ever.

and a dog that talks:

a vlog about a dog....

(thanks to kelly & romeo for making today fun!)

unemployed, day 2

home office:

i'm not having fun. i don't know how to relax. i think going to walmart yesterday killed my spirit. i did set up my "home office". i need to work on a "vlog for today". i want to record some kind of video every day. today needs to be musical.... i must dust off the dulcimer!

lessons learned:

• do not go to walmart, ever
• if you threaten to kill the dogs too often, they stop taking you seriously
• do not listen to your "elliot smith & nick drake mix" on itunes all day
• if the "wine fairy" does the dishes, she doesn't always do a good job & you might have to rewash them in the morning
  
• if you watch daytime tv, you will question life
• get out of the house each day, if only to get overpriced coffee

that's all i got.....

here's my bad dulcimer playing. i need to learn how to tune the damn thing. but i put on lipstick, and tried to play "swanee river". i was reading sheet music, and got my lazy eye on!

unemployed, day 1

so today is the first official day that i am unemployed, out of work, without a job. it feels weird. i know there are worse things that can happen (see dr. z zombie's a go-go blog) and i am lucky to have my health, and a husband who has a job. i got me a sugar daddy!

i woke up with dan at 5:30am but stayed in bed. he left and i bet he wishes he could have stayed in bed. i know i wished i could be up & getting ready for work. and if i were up at 5:30am getting ready for work, i'd be bitching about it and wishing i could stay in bed.

day 1 lesson learned: no one is really happy about going to work, and no one wants to be unemployed. if you have curly hair, you want straight hair, and vice versa.

words of wisdom, and only my first day off!

i shot a little test video. a vlog. i used music from bon iver's "for emma, forever ago" as inspiration. the album was recorded in a little cabin in the woods, after the guy went through a bad breakup and some health problems. i'm hoping that maybe i'll find some way to be creative on these days with nothing to do. "for griffin, constantly underfoot" will be my hit album.

or at least i'll get the kitchen cleaned up and maybe paint the bathroom pink.

i am sporting some pretty awesome bed head in this....