kicked when down

so it's been a bit. and i haven't fallen off the world. promise. well, maybe i did for a bit. but for the evening i've rejoined.

the past week i've been yuckily sick with mysterious sickness of no name. just symptoms of fever, backpain, and the amazing ability to sleep 17 hours a day (and other random irritations i will not mention). i really think sleeping this much is really quite a talent. i heard on CNN several weeks ago that NASA was running tests on sleeping and looking for volunteers to live in bed for three months straight and they weren't allowed to get up. i think this week, i would have been a fine candidate for such testing. The report said it was paying quite a bit for people who willing to stay in bed for three months.... and with the new status of jobless, this could come in handy. maybe i'll look into that for a new job... NASA volunteer. could look good on the resume. its' an option.

so we will rewind to the week after i got home from Arkansas and before i became ill and couch ridden. that week i spent feeling empowered. having spent that first weekend in shock and depression that for the first time in my life i had been let go from a job. been told my services were no longer needed. the last thing remaining from my "old" life of marriedom... i got to my feet determined to kick some job finding butt. and one thing stood in the way... a laptop cord that had a unrepairable short that caused it to REFUSE to work. i could jiggle. i could hold. i could do a little dance and pray and beg for it work... and it would not. it might as well been snapped in half. this little problem was discovered while i was still in Arkansas and trying to be proactive and on top of things ordered a new one over the net with "free shipping". if only they said... it's free but it will take an ungodly amount of time for us to get it to you because we send it around the world on a vacation before you get it. but they didn't. and it took over a week and a half to get the cord. a week and a half in which i was empowered to find a new job, with no ACTUAL way to search for one since my only means of technology only has a two hour battery time that had run out days before. not to mention, my little laptop friend holds all my top secret files... like my resume and my super duper cover letter.

so i tried to be resourceful and go to the library... but you can do very little in one hour increments. but i do now have an ypsi library card (go me!). i also successfully and quite humbly applied for unemployment. i thought i was not eligible... apparently i was wrong. this was good news as it will give me a little more time to find a job and not lose the roof over my head. so with the job stuff on temporary hold since i didn't actually have access to my resume, i spent this week to finally put my apartment together. i hung pictures. i went through my files and filed. i organized. i threw out 6 boxes of crap. i painted a table (which turned out great i might say) and i changed my address with the post office. i simply worked my butt off around the apartment. and then... i got sick. the cord did come the beginning of last week, but too sick to ACTUALLY use it. so. that brings us up to date.

so with any luck... i will stay well. who knows, i seem to be sick a lot and i'm pretty sure that even if this "spell" is over. i need to take actions to get to a doctor. this is not my forte. not a big doctor person. but i think it's time this changes.