In which I check in.
I’ve been off the ‘net for a couple days because — surprize, surprize — I didn’t pay my phone bill and so I can’t get online from home. Right now I’m at the coffee shop with NLW, waiting for my frappuccino.
After getting laid off, I went to get drunk. Don’t ever let anyone tell you getting drunk doesn’t solve your problems, because it totally does. After half a bottle of wine, getting laid off stops stinging. Somewhere during your second bottle of wine, you’re stoked you’re unemployed because you know you’ll never make it to work in the morning.
I spent two days with Raybo and her brood. The first night I crashed at her place, the second night she and her kids came to the farm. There was Middle Eastern food, there were pina coladas, smoking on the porch. Talking. It was soooo goood to have women and children around me.
Raybo lost her job in June, so she didn’t have to be anywhere either. She and her kids and I swam in the triangle pond yesterday.
NLW showed up at my place today just after I finished lunch. She didn’t have my new cell number, and I’d been off the Internet, so she just drove out to check on me. I’d been recovering from two days of having kids everywhere.
So NLW’s abducting me for coffee in town. Plus I gotta go buy benadryl and flea shampoo and dog food in time to be back at NLW’s man’s store by four. Ciao, babies!
In other news, I’ll be spending a few hours in the employment office on Monday. Filling out paperwork, waiting in uncomfortable chairs, talking to bored and overworked government employees, being told either I’m not eligible for unemployment benefits or that I am but it’s only $22.50 a week. Yay. *rolleyes*
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Glad you are alright and not hibernating… was starting to worry!
it was good to read your entry. i’m glad you’re home and hope that something turns up for you soon in the job department. if for nothing else, to keep you from getting bored. we don’t want that, now do we?
I was concerned, but I just assumed you needed some Mush time. I’m glad you were actually having fun.
That reminds me of the wise, wise words of one Homer J. Simpson, “Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life’s problems.”
Alcohol is almost always an answer, if not necessarily the best one available 🙂 Drop me an e-mail and tell me which e-books you were looking for/missing, and I’ll either e-mail them to you or upload them again!
Oh, I’m home again so I no longer need it. I was in Indianapolis and needed the 3rd of the Galactic Milieu series because I didn’t have it with me but had left it on my home machine. Thank you! -m
Ahh yeah, I’d have to agree on that one. I used to think otherwise but alcohol is a friend, as long it’s not done excessively. I hope they treat you alright at the unemployment office, though I’m aware government employees can be a*holes sometimes. Heehee Not all of them though, not all of them *smiles I hope they try to help you out in anyway they can If you need anything, do let us know. Ya know we’ll do what we can to help out *Hugs
I miss you! Hurry back to Internet Land!
HURRY!
Faster.
*smooch*
I’m glad to hear you have plenty of friends (and wine) around. Fingers crossed that the EI dweebs don’t rip either of us off!