so bored

what surprises me about being unemployed is that I still manage to have stuff to do most of the time. My house is cleaner, we don't lack for laundry and the dishes are always done and I water the garden. I've been doing a lot of job applying mostly and also researching the series 7 exam (which I found out I can't take unless I'm employed by a company that is registered by the NASD) Anyway I'm bored out of my skull so feel free to call me and chat my ear off I won't mind. I'm going to go be super productive and hope I forget that I'm not bring home any bacon.

Crush, Kill, Destroy

My company's (well former in a few days) new 2007 motto or at least what it should be. I've been feeling icky the last few days, we are talking really icky. I think that due to all the stress from losing my job and searching for a new one my body just wants to give up and doesn't really care to "fight back" anything that comes to ail me.

I'm ready to have another job lined up, I would love it if there was nothing more than a weekend between this job and the next. Mostly the weekend because I have plans this weekend. Tim and I are going to the San Francisco to do the free museums in May thing and other wise putz around for the day.

In other news, on May 15th Pan's Labyrinth was released on DVD. I know that it wasn't available in theaters everywhere (especially for my Kansas readers) but it is out now so you have to see it. Don't be deterred by the subtitles at all, it is one of the best movies I've seen. It is pretty graphic but the movie does take place in Spain right after their Civil war. It doesn't have a clear ending and you can choose to believe in the fantasy or not. I highly recomend it.

One week

So my head is spinning with all the applications and calls I have been getting because of the applications. I had forgotten how tiring the full time job search can be. I am now trying to take a new look at this "opportunity" because if I can get a job relatively quickly I will have 3 months of double income!

That sounds like a vacation to me, I want to go to Disney World, Tim wants to go to the mountains (If I can get him to the Rockies I will be quite willing to cave.) I'm trying to stay as positive as possible. I'm not on the street pan handling or anything yet.

Tonight starts the last "weekend" of my job before I go on the permenant weekend. I'm really excited, tonight is the first wednesday night market in downtown Santa Rosa along with a free jazz concert in the park and Tim and I are going. We will probably finish the evening assembling our new lawn furniture we got last night. Ah the weekend.

Downsized

There are so many good jokes that come to mind: We aren't picking up your option, you are part of an outplacement program, were movinging in another direction. The main gist of these is the fact that I just lost my job. The rent went up for my location and my company decided that we weren't profitable enough to merit paying more to keep us open. So I sit before you jobless in 2 weeks time with a lovely severence package and a soul full of worry.

"when one door closes another opens"...yes yes I've heard it, it's been a main theme in my life since yesterday, that and "it's for the best", and "you didn't really like that job anyway." My very favorite was "Do you want to go on vacation?" that was from my own dear, sweet Tim upon hearing the news between my tears and gulps for breath.

Overqualified. I've taken my time looking for the "right" job knowing that I had this one which I was good at I had been there for years and I had good benefits with. My biggest fear now is having to find another "in between" job. No one wants a bank teller with a bachelors degree in finance. Cold, cold world here I come.

PS this is a cute picture of Tim and I and his niece to brighten up this sad post.

your commute just got longer

The gas truck explosion that took out a section of Oakland's I-580 happened early Monday morning, but it wasn't until yesterday that I got to expirience the fun of the new commute (story). Normally I don't commute to work, I live less that a mile from where I work so I walk, ride my awesome bike or if I'm feeling crappy or lazy then I might drive. However, I recently got a small promotion at work and so now being a part of the "management team" I needed to go to a special training in the South/East Bay. Living in the North Bay the drive is normally an hour and fourty five minutes to two hours, but yesterday it took me no less than three hours. So all in all a fun five hour commute (the drive back wasn't during rush hour.)

To add insult to injury because I was going all the way down to the Oakland area, Tim asked if I could run a small errand to my favorite of all places: The Emeryville Ikea. We decided to combine all of our Ikea bookshelves into one big stair stepping kind of bookshelf unit which we realized we were 2 shelves short of achieving so I grudgingly went (I hate Ikea, it sounds like a good idea in theory but there are so many choices many of which are partical board and then everyone has the exact same ugly furiture) only to find they were out of one of the shelves I needed. Meaning we get to return at some point to pick up one shelf!

Today is a new day, and a day I have off so I'm going to clean and sit in the sun and read and do something else fun. Hooray for days off!