Too much time on my hands

[judecorp]

I guess I will soon have a lot of time on my hands to get my house in order. Spring cleaning and all of that. I suppose that's good, except for the paycheck part. I wonder if they are going to buy out the rest of my time. That would be nice. A girl can dream.

I am going to send Punk to day care for the most part and just try to get things in order. I want to finally hang the blinds in the spare bedroom and the dining room. (We have them, they are just not up.) I want to really scrub the floors and vacuum the carpets. I want to clean up the yard. We were going to use our tax refund to get a bunch of stuff done in the yard (sod, seed, whatever it takes, and clean up the landscaping) but who knows if that is going to be able to happen. I suppose it depends how quickly I get a job. I know I /will/ get a job, even though the pessimistic, fatalistic part of myself says that I will never get a job again. I am not going to let this job ruin me.

I am saddest about not being able to transition out my clients. Most of them know I am leaving, because I started telling them when I gave notice. But there are a couple I haven't seen in person (and therefore haven't told). Who knows what they are going to think? Who knows what they are going to be told? Sigh sigh sigh.

I need to take a little inventory about what foods we have in the house because I'm guessing it would not be a bad idea to stretch out the groceries a bit. Maybe we'll be eating some creative meals. We'll have to chill on the eating out. Thankfully I already have a good amount of a spring wardrobe for Punk (and some summer).

We refinanced our house yesterday. Not much different, but a little lower. Every little bit helps, you know? Thank goodness we closed on the refi yesterday, because it meant that the mortgage company did my employment verification on Thursday. Thank goodness. And I had to close our home equity line with the old mortgage company, and they had a $200 Visa gift card buyout. Thank goodness for that, too. And extra thanks to my mortgage guy who not only did some yard clean up with us yesterday (ILY, Jeff!) but also gave us a BRU gift card as a thank you. That will buy us some day care diapers, which is good.

Time to tighten the purse strings and hope for a decent job with a decent salary soon.

Comments

Food

[amyura.livejournal.com]

Well, with gas prices being what they are, this might be feasible. We have food that I've been cooking all fall and winter that I'd be more than happy to share if you guys would like a free meal or several. If you want to use some of your new free time to take a little trip out this way, give me a heads-up and I can give you some soups and/or casseroles that make great meals, especially with some fresh bread, which I would also be more than happy to throw together for you. (You know how much I like cooking.)

I'll be off in three weeks anyhow and could meet up with you somewhere closer to your place as well.

Finally, I haven't read through all the comments but do you now qualify for unemployment since they let you go instead of you just quitting?

Re: Food

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer! Right now I am hoping to land a job in the next couple of weeks and then we should be fine with a little belt-tightening and a little help from the tax return. Because we refinanced, we aren't paying a mortgage payment for April (I don't think) and that will help quite a bit, and I am filing claims with my flex spending accounts pronto since I am getting terminated. Fun times.

Hopefully it will not be an issue, but if it comes down to that, I will totally come out to you or meet you during your break and take some of your food, because you are an awesome cook! xoxo