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During the time that I've largely vanished from LiveJournal, I've also largely vanished from pretty much everything else. Nothing particularly terrible happened to make this happen; in fact, some of the events were pretty positive but, well, when I'm unemployed pretty much everything kind of surrounds the fact that I'm not working and that's a drum everyone gets as tired of hearing as I get tired of beating.
So I've been applying to places, coordinating the cleaning of the house (which has so much stuff in it that coordination is required rather then the more familiar light dusting-and-pickup), doing the day to day chores, and gardening. So, I am a miserable gardener. I guess everything takes practice, right?
I honestly haven't been playing many games - neither role-playing, Magic, or video games, honestly. I've gotten incredible amounts of stuff done, but gaming isn't one of them. I did see Avengers, and I suppose that's worth a brief comment at some point. I finished Fantasy General the day I was canned, but I don't know what to say about that, either. If I want to write, I have to get my shit together at some point, because the block that I've run into is pretty frustrating.
One thing to take away from this, and it's probably the big one, is that we're probably ok for a while. Katie's gotten a job at a dental office for about 35k a year, which is enough to live on. I'm looking for work, and I'm getting a scant amount of unemployment insurance money, so that should do fine for us until I'm working again (which is hopefully both soon and not 100% terrible). I'll probably spend the day getting a lot of my stuff in order, but since Katie's gotten hired, we've both felt a burden lift off our shoulders a little bit. There's a feeling that we don't really trust, but that says we're not trapped under a ticking financial bombshell. For what it's worth to me, that makes me feel like I can sit down and work on my writing and not feel terrible guilt for slacking. What that means for us in the long run is to be seen, but hopefully my next several posts are a little more entertaining.
So I've been applying to places, coordinating the cleaning of the house (which has so much stuff in it that coordination is required rather then the more familiar light dusting-and-pickup), doing the day to day chores, and gardening. So, I am a miserable gardener. I guess everything takes practice, right?
I honestly haven't been playing many games - neither role-playing, Magic, or video games, honestly. I've gotten incredible amounts of stuff done, but gaming isn't one of them. I did see Avengers, and I suppose that's worth a brief comment at some point. I finished Fantasy General the day I was canned, but I don't know what to say about that, either. If I want to write, I have to get my shit together at some point, because the block that I've run into is pretty frustrating.
One thing to take away from this, and it's probably the big one, is that we're probably ok for a while. Katie's gotten a job at a dental office for about 35k a year, which is enough to live on. I'm looking for work, and I'm getting a scant amount of unemployment insurance money, so that should do fine for us until I'm working again (which is hopefully both soon and not 100% terrible). I'll probably spend the day getting a lot of my stuff in order, but since Katie's gotten hired, we've both felt a burden lift off our shoulders a little bit. There's a feeling that we don't really trust, but that says we're not trapped under a ticking financial bombshell. For what it's worth to me, that makes me feel like I can sit down and work on my writing and not feel terrible guilt for slacking. What that means for us in the long run is to be seen, but hopefully my next several posts are a little more entertaining.
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