Okay, so, having no job, and currently feeling a WEE BIT better than death warmed over, it is VERY easy to get bogged down by negative thoughts and feelings! So, my purpose here, today, is to say "out loud", if you will, a few words about my blessings, or at least a few of them! I gotta be my own personal PollyAna, and if you're here, reading this, then you can watch me pull myself up by my bootstraps, and give myself a proverbial SLAP upside the head!
Here goes - I'm calling this my "Top Ten Reasons to Be Happy, in This Season of Unemployment"
1. Hey, no need to set an alarm clock! Those applications can wait until I am dang well ready to fill them out! AND, I can fill them out at 1:00 am, if I want! Bein' my own boss . . . LOL
2. My good friend hooked us up, literally, with a washer and dryer, in exchange for some tasks . . . THAT is the kind of payment that keeps on paying! Thank you, Tina!! (We spent $16.00 on the trip to the laundrymat last week . . . that's average for us!!)
3. Nobody is going to count these sick days against my record . . . hey, I'm off work either way! LOL
4. I've got plenty of time to organize my time, my thoughts, my spare bedroom . . . and still be available to wait for phone calls about job interviews! Multi tasking at its best!
5. I can have lunch with my mom, or my niece and nephew and sister-in-law whenever I want! Even if it is just peanut butter and jelly, because that is all the budget will allow!
6. Instead of focusing on the things that I don't have, or can't afford, I can congratulate myself as my budgeting skills improve! (Needless to say, my trips to the scrapbook stores have decreased!!)
7. I get to spend more time on Facebook then EVER before! And POGO, and iTunes, and wherever I want, out in cyberspace! And nobody will be busting me for wasting time "on the clock"!
8. My appreciation for those who don't have jobs, or can't find jobs is growing, because, Hey, I am one of them! I know I'm trying, so who says they aren't trying too??
9. My DVR is being cleaned up . . . some of those CSI episodes are almost 2 months old!! SLACKER!!
10. Plenty of time to ponder and reflect on what it means to have trials and how they make better people out of all of us. Seriously, this too shall pass, and my job is to focus not on "WHEN?" but "What will I learn from all this?" instead.
So, there it is, albeit a little tongue in cheek, but hey, you gotta keep your sense of humor, you know??
2 comments:
Yeah, sometimes it's hard to see the silver lining, but you know this isn't forever. Something will come along at the right point, and you will have been able to enjoy some of the 'non working' things for awhile.
Like going to lunch and things like that. Enjoy it!
Hey, and that is super cool about the washer and dryer! Man, laundrymats are expensive!!
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you! Love ya!
Oh that was me by the way. Duh. I forgot to sign in.
(as if you couldn't tell by the epic long post! LOL!)
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