Musings over a morning smoothie
I've got a lot of sighs in me - but I'm feeling better than I have in months. Mainly because I quit my job that was causing me uber stress and possibilities lay before me again.
I'm alternating, hour by hour it seems, between hopefulness and hopelessness as far as finding a job goes. God knows, I'm not jumping ship now just to get another low paying job. No, I'm holding out for what I deserve dammit! But I'm deeply afraid that the couple hundred bucks I have to my name to sustain me will run out before I find that job....
I don't think asking a minimum of 28K a year is too much, but in the shitty wage-world that is Tucson, it can be. If anyone has any advice as far as landing an interview or anything that I should be doing that you think I might be missing please speak up!
On the brighter side of things, I'm now on Day 6 of the 9 day detox phase of The Fat Smash Diet from Celebrity Fit Club. Yeah, I know, sounds goofy and kitchy, but it's a fairly common sense, healthy approach to dieting and exercise. We'll see what kind of results I get when the first 9 days are up. I'm just hoping to look half decent enough to feel comfortable wearing a sleeveless top to a wedding I'm attending on the 22nd. That's my modest goal.
And Go Me! btw, I've been riding a bike for my morning exercise and slowly ratcheting up the difficulty. I like to explore areas, both urban and desert, around my place, and yesterday I decided to take the Forest Gump approach and just keep going until I didn't feel like it anymore. I measured it in my car after I finished - 12.8 miles in 1 1/2 hours!
So that was pretty cool.
Yeah, I'm a ping pong ball of optimism. Or something.
Addendum: Forgot to mention that the reason I chose a detox program to begin with is that I've basically been self medicating for years now and I felt I've probably punished my liver and kidneys enough now - considering I can/could take down half a bottle of liqour without a hangover the next morning... yeah. It was time for a change. On the up side I know for sure now that I wasn't an alchoholic - in the sense that I was physically (or mentally really) addicted. No withdrawl symptoms of any kind - so that's a plus. Not to worry anyone :)
I'm alternating, hour by hour it seems, between hopefulness and hopelessness as far as finding a job goes. God knows, I'm not jumping ship now just to get another low paying job. No, I'm holding out for what I deserve dammit! But I'm deeply afraid that the couple hundred bucks I have to my name to sustain me will run out before I find that job....
I don't think asking a minimum of 28K a year is too much, but in the shitty wage-world that is Tucson, it can be. If anyone has any advice as far as landing an interview or anything that I should be doing that you think I might be missing please speak up!
On the brighter side of things, I'm now on Day 6 of the 9 day detox phase of The Fat Smash Diet from Celebrity Fit Club. Yeah, I know, sounds goofy and kitchy, but it's a fairly common sense, healthy approach to dieting and exercise. We'll see what kind of results I get when the first 9 days are up. I'm just hoping to look half decent enough to feel comfortable wearing a sleeveless top to a wedding I'm attending on the 22nd. That's my modest goal.
And Go Me! btw, I've been riding a bike for my morning exercise and slowly ratcheting up the difficulty. I like to explore areas, both urban and desert, around my place, and yesterday I decided to take the Forest Gump approach and just keep going until I didn't feel like it anymore. I measured it in my car after I finished - 12.8 miles in 1 1/2 hours!
So that was pretty cool.
Yeah, I'm a ping pong ball of optimism. Or something.
Addendum: Forgot to mention that the reason I chose a detox program to begin with is that I've basically been self medicating for years now and I felt I've probably punished my liver and kidneys enough now - considering I can/could take down half a bottle of liqour without a hangover the next morning... yeah. It was time for a change. On the up side I know for sure now that I wasn't an alchoholic - in the sense that I was physically (or mentally really) addicted. No withdrawl symptoms of any kind - so that's a plus. Not to worry anyone :)