Domestic Geek

Man, I hate when I have a movie I want to see and say to myself, "I need to put that in my Netflix queue," but when I have the Netflix site open in front of me, I can't remember what the heck the movie was. Grrrr.

Well, my stupid glasses broke yesterday. I shouldn't be surprised, the things are over five years old. The frames are so thin, I can't even glue them together temporarily. *sigh* Oh, well.

I've been unemployed a whole month. I think the lack of work is making me edgy. All I could do was pace today. I couldn't concentrate worth crap. I have tons of stuff I could be doing, but I just can't seem to focus. Not cool.

I need to get back to sorting stuff and throwing stuff out. Our stupid landlord raised the lot rent again. Once I do find work and get my bills back on track, priority number one is going to be getting out of here. Our house sits right next to a main power line. I know that the energy affects me strangely. That's probably also a reason I'm so restless.

I can't believe how quickly my health deteriorated this last month. It's amazing how much excercise I got going back and forth to the printer. I gained over 10 pounds in the last month, despite the fact that I've been eating less. My metabolism must be in conservation mode. I went biking with Marcus yesterday and I sucked so bad. I'm basically carrying around two people everywhere I go. I'm going to take better care of myself. It took a week for the swelling in my legs to go down after the blogathon. I'm not young anymore, but I'm not that old, either.

I'm kicking myself for my stubborness and not applying for unemployment sooner. I'd be getting checks already if I had overcome my pride sooner...or faced reality sooner. I kept telling myself that I didn't need to apply, I'd have a job before the checks would kick in. Yeah.

OK, gonna go see if I can relax enough to get a few hours sleep.

Here I sit...far from bright-eyed and busy-tailed (where did that expression come from, anyways?)

I was up quite late last night. I've written before how I can't sleep very well when Marcus isn't home. I haven't been sleeping well period lately. Between the stress I'm under, my weight, our neighbors, the local wildlife, the dog and Marcus' alarm, I can't remember the last time I slept uninterrupted for more than 4 hours.

I took every precaution I could to get as much sleep as possible. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to turn off his darned alarm. He's got one of those cool Timex Atomic Time clocks that keeps in sync with the Atomic Clock in Boulder, I'm guessing. It's awesome after a power outage because it will be correct within a few seconds. The bad thing...you need a mechanical engineering degree to work the darned thing. I doubt the paper copy of the instructions that came with it still exist in our household. Marcus' position is that, "Instructions are for girls." Yeah, well, hello? I am one. A search on the Timex site produced nothing. I can only get instructions for the watches currently being sold, it seems. You think they'd archive the old ones somewhere. I finally found a guy on the internet that was as frustrated as I with the convoluted process of setting the alarm. Fortunately, he scanned the instructions and I printed them out. Yay!!! I decided to let the dog have free roam of the house so he wouldn't pant all night. I went to the bathroom so my bladder wouldn't wake me up.

All for naught. I woke up at about the same time Marcus' alarm would've gone off. Boooooo! I tried to go back to sleep. By then, the dog knew I had stirred and he wanted to go out. I GIVE UP!

Marcus and Mike left a little while ago for their annual Pikes Peak hike. Nina and I normally go along and spend the day hanging out in the Springs until it is time to pick them up at the summit. I just wasn't in the mood this year. So, I'm all alone at the homestead this evening and almost all day tomorrow. If I had money, I'd order myself in a pizza. *sigh* Oh, well.

Being unemployed really, really sucks. I don't see how people can stand being in this state for very long. It's been thee weeks since my last day and I'm going CRAZY! My new job is out there, I just need to find it. I have skills that want to be used.

I have decided I am NOT doing this freelance thing. Not right now, anyway. I still want to own my own business of some kind, but the time is not right. I really need the stability and security of full time job. Come on, employers, you want me!