Another Day 45: Life Goes On

Holidays and weekends don't count, so today marks 30 days unemployed. Considering I'm getting paid, am I really unemployed ? I guess so. It's going to continue to be a scary place until I have a job and unless the Accenture job comes through, I don't know when that's going to happen. For now, I consider this time off to be an extended vacation. This past Friday marked 6 weeks without a job. I haven't been unemployed since 1985, so this is a hard adjustment.

I haven't heard anything from Kurt, but I'm going to be patient. He is trying hard to get me hired and it's going to take time convincing the upper management. If he had any news to share I know he would. I guess it's good that he hasn't given up yet !

I put out the trash just before 10 am and even though the thermometer said it's "only" 77 degrees it felt a lot hotter because of the humidity. The forecast high is 85 and rain is expected early tomorrow morning. Even so, the forecast high for tomorrow is 86 ! I will remember these hot days when I'm freezing my ass off in January ! The trash men came at 10:22 so it's a good thing I didn't procrastinate longer ! They don't usually come to my street before noon but they might be trying to get done early today because of the heat. The high temp I saw today was 85 but by 8 pm it had dropped back to 77. I barely moved all afternoon because it was so humid. I did change the coverings on the couch, that's about all I accomplished. 

Some days I struggle with using past and present tense in my blog, because I write throughout the day. I won't be able to do that once I start working again, so I'm not going to worry about it.

I spent the morning doing my usual: YouTube and Cookie Jam. I am on level 2464 as of 10:04 am today. I thought I was doing great plowing through the levels until I saw a post on their Facebook page asking people to comment their level for a chance at a giveaway. Some people are up over 11,000 !!!! OMG .. by the time I get there they'll probably have 30,000 levels in the game. Clearly I will never "finish" the game, which is fine with me. I imagine I would be impatient if I had to sit around and wait for them to release new levels. Right now I have 20 days of unlimited lives and I love it, because it's so frustrating when you get stuck on a level and the game limits you to 5 or 6 lives. There were times I'd be stuck for days on a level, but that hasn't happened in a long time. I think they modified their algorithm to help you pass a level after a certain number of attempts. People tend to abandon the game if they're stuck and keep running out of lives. I earned the unlimited lives by completing challenges over the past few weeks. I'm surprised they let you build up that much time, but I'm grateful for it as I really enjoy the game ! I watch plenty of ads but I don't really pay attention to what they're advertising and I don't click on any affiliate links. I just watch them to get powerups.

Breakfast today was waffles and a yogurt with a few Biscoff cookies. Lunch was a chicken bacon ranch quesadilla with salsa and light sour cream. Afternoon snack was 3 string cheese and some multigrain crackers. Dinner was a pizza. I have 3 crusts left and that'll be it for pizza for a while. 

I still need to go to Wegman's for produce and I might do that tomorrow. I'm going to rock & roll bingo at Point Place but I don't have to leave here until 4:45, so I have all day to grocery shop. I don't really need anything else at the store, so I don't think I need a Walmart stop.

There was a little conflict going on at the neighbor's house today. I'm going to guess it was with her baby daddy. She has 4 kids and I have no idea if they all have the same father. I suspect they do not. Not long after a car roared away with her shouting at it, someone else pulled up with a big folder of papers. I'm going to guess that was a social worker. She wasn't there long and things have been quiet ever since, so hopefully all is well with the children. While I was out snooping around I noticed the glass in the broken window on the porch had slipped. I managed to get the window out and used electrical tape to secure it. I need to get some exact measurements (again!) and buy some plexiglass to seal the window. I have 3 broken ones and if I get the Accenture job I may go forward with the porch remodel next year. However, I would like to pull out the broken windows now and close up the frames with removeable plexiglass. I just need 3 pieces of plexiglass and some L brackets. 

I was sitting here thinking how much I'm going to miss the pizza, but then caught a glimpse of myself in my computer screen. I am gigantic again. I am approaching 300 pounds again. I have to stop. I'm so disgusted with myself. I spent a ton of time and money and effort to lose 150 pounds and here I've gained just about all of it back. What a freaking moron I am.