The cold from Hell

For the past 10 days I have been sniffling, sneezing, coughing and overall feeling like crap. Finally, this week I have had the chance to relax, drink orange juice and eat chicken noodle soup. I am finally starting to feel better. Although it was a good excuse to not clean my house for a while. ;) I'm not sure who actually gave me the cold, since I was at a hospital with lots of sick people 10-14 days ago. I blame everyone who was sniffling that weekend!

Yesterday I made my first call to the Michigan's Automated Response Voice Interactive Network ("You can call me Marvin") a.k.a. the Unemployment hotline. They are sending me my first check this week. Hooray for unemployment compensation! It certainly takes some of the pressure off of not having a full time job right now. I did substitute teach on Monday. And I am subbing tomorrow morning. I will probably pick up a job for Friday too. My favorite part about subbing, other than playing games for 7 hours on my computer, is getting to be the favorite sub at the charter school. I have three more sub jobs at the charter school lined up for the next two weeks. I am the first one the teachers call, they like me so much. :) One of the administrators there asked if they had my resume on file. I said no, not yet. She told me to put it in, because you never know. They like me! They really, really like me!

Sigh. I've stopped shopping. It's been really hard. I don't like it at all. I've moved beyond selling my shoes on ebay to selling some of my many pairs of jeans. Who knew that I had 6 pairs of jeans with the tags still on them?! Selling the clothes is not nearly as fun as buying them, that's for sure. But in a financial crisis, I am sacrificing my wardrobe. Hopefully, I get a full-time job soon, so I can stop this selling nonsense and start buying and stimulating the economy again!

I've been working on updating my resume again for the real world. I have three different resumes. One for teaching, one for restaurants, and one for other jobs. I'm working on the one for "other jobs". I did send my application to a couple of places, but who knew that you need a degree in business or communications to get a full-time office job that pays well?! Crazy. My degree in History just isn't doing much for me right now.

Hopefully, Jason will decide that it would be good for us to move out of the state in the spring so I can get a teaching job and use my $40,000 education for something! In the mean time, I'll just keep subbing, selling my posessions, and job searching. It's not much fun to be me right now.