At least I don't have to dress up ( Read more... )

"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til its gone..."

I'm not feeling too well today. Yesterday had its ups and downs. I couldn't sleep the night before, and then I called a realtor to get some ideas of how to prep our house for sale. Plan is to try and stick it out till #1 graduates, and then if things haven't ( Read more... )

 R put in for retirement, generally takes 6-12 months to process.

He's gone Dec. 31.

So as of January we're down to 30% of what our income was last January. That is, if my contract that ends Dec. 31st gets renewed and at a similar level.

Pray one of those 'sure, we'll hire you' guys meant it when they talked to him last month. More than all the ones ( Read more... )

 
"Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us."


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My consultant job wants me to work longer hours (i.e. as long as it takes) for a set fee (i.e. less money), but still as contractor/consultant/non-employee. I'm afraid they know they are the only game in town. I guess it's a plus that they value what I'm doing enough to want to keep me.

For now.

I went to a career changer seminar last night, to ( Read more... )

 I was so busy and hopeful yesterday and today was smackdown time and I just sat outside and read Robin Hobb.

And cleaned some of my filthy house.

Tonight I plan to finish off box wine left by my SIL and read Robin Hobb.


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 You know how sometimes your media obsessions mirror what you need right that moment, due to real life circumstances?

You don't? Maybe it's just me.

Anyhow, as I've been binge watching Ghost Whisperer and wondering why, I realized every episode Melinda has to confess her 'gift' of seeing the dead to someone, someone who is liable to reply with scorn ( Read more... )

I don't think I'm ever going to work again ( Read more... )

I realized why I fell into the abyss this week. It's been two months since I stopped working--full-time, for pay. After the first flush of hopeful interviews, the anger and tedium of application for unemployment, the rushing back and forth to help my parents, the changeover from school year to summer... the new normal is here, and it's scary.

My ( Read more... )

Dad had to go out of town so I came over to babysit Mom. Please don't tell her I said that. Also to work on a report for company #1. Lots of reading. Lots of research. Not getting that done, actually.

I seem to have stopped applying for jobs. Which I need to go back to doing. I hate it so...the tedious search, the mind-numbing forms, the shooting ( Read more... )