Things I Have Learned While Unemployed.

• People in general have been very supportive.  Then again the people I surround myself with know the sordid details leading up to the unemployment.
• I have been grateful for the downtime.  Some things happened and I was able to give of myself fully to people who needed the support.  That and how nice is it when you suffer a back and elbow injury, how nice it that you can heal on your time and not worry about sitting behind a desk in a chair all day?
• Pulling weeds can cause a lot of back and elbow damage.
• I am getting old.
• Taking care of two litters of kittens is exhausting.  Unless you don’t give a damn about their health when you give them up for adoption.  A fact that I knew existed but shielded myself from its existence.  They were all adopted out within 48 at the shelter.  One was adopted by a worker there at first sight.
• Kittens are messy.  Very, very, very messy.  The dust they stir up alone whilst running amok is, well dust makers.  Kittens are little cute balls of dust makers.
• Dust+ asthma is bad.  Very, very, very bad.
• I have the patience of a saint.
• I now wake up around 4:30 convinced that This Is IT!  I am going to have to go to the ER.  I can’t breath.  Even when the house is clean and those kittens are gone.
• That is a nice time to have a Bloody Mary.
• It is not fun and yet it is fun to have the hubby around so much.  See, he lost his job too.  Scary shit.
• He hovers over me a lot and I don’t like it.  I will ask for help when I need it.  Not sooner.
• He finally got to see the a lot of the madness that happens over at The Trailer Trash Mama’s house now that she has made a reappearance.  I secretly ate up every part of it when we he said, “OMG!!!  Your are right!!!!  It is really crazy over there!”
• I am a good cook.
• New habits have formed.  Namely from waking up at 4:30 AM.  Biggest one is the dog likes to stay in bed, under the covers.  He yaps at me if I don’t get him and put him on the couch.  Or, better yet, he silently jumps off, pees on the floor and sneaks to another bed.
• Not happy with dog.  I think he is trying to control me.  He only weighs ten pounds.
• Made some day trips and new memories I never would have the delight to have were we working.
• It sucks being broke but we are getting by much better then imagined.
• I see things I don’t normally see.  Like how many of my neighbors have their TV’s on at all hours of the night.  I have joined their ranks.
• I am babbling too much.