Biting the Budget Bullet
Gas prices and grocery prices are killing me. Actually, it’s really that the consumer debt I’ve racked up over the years eats a lot of the paycheck. So I don’t have the wiggle room to adjust for a $40 fill-up. Or apples at $1 apiece. I had made a good-sized hole in paying off the […]
Ho Blinkin’ Hum! This Job Search Thing Is BO-Ring
It wouldn’t be so bad if there were something I could do, but there isn’t really. I go online every Sunday and print all the ads I might be qualified for, write my little cover letters and mail, fax, or e-mail them all first thing Monday morning. On Monday and Thursday I hit the job […]
Is It Life? Or the Weather?
I just cannot shake this funk. It ebbs and flows a bit, as I keep busy or not, but it’s always there, lurking. It could be the weather. It’s been overcast and mostly rainy here since Sunday, though I did get out and mow the backyard on Sunday afternoon. But it started raining that night […]
Preening My Feathers
And no, not because I’m a chicken. Because I got myself back on track this weekend. The pace of life got very crazy when my boss left in mid-March, and I fell out of a lot of good habits I had been trying to cement into my life. Like getting up early and exercising, eating right, […]