Terminated

Its day five.  

Time flies when you're re-orienting yourself.  I was laid-off Tuesday.  During that first sleepless night I made plans for Wednesday. 

Planned:  Update the resume, begin networking, make medical appointments, budget, workout, clean house, harvest the garden, and mow the lawn.

Accomplished?  Called career counselor!  Applied for unemployment benefits!  Yeah.  And…watched Dr. Oz:  Soaked in the tub scented by lavender and chamomile fizzy bath bomb. The bomb was a Mother’s Day gift from my granddaughter which I hadn’t had time to use.  It was relaxing and cleansing as advertised.  This might be a good side to my new status.  Following the bath, a nap was in order.    

It wasn't the most productive day.  But, I did feel better after the bath and nap.  Needless to say, I had plenty of time. 
 
Thursday morning I met with Linda Rolie, http://www.lindarolie.com.  We spent quite a bit of time discussing my feelings and ideas about the future, then she offered specific and constructive suggestions on how to improve my resume.  It was a greatly helpful session but left me completely exhausted. 

Thursday afternoon was spent looking for book shelves for my study since I think I’ll be spending quite a bit of time there and I’ve never really gotten it fixed up since I moved into my home.  My oldest son went shopping with me and we picked up two 72” mostly wood bookshelves from Fred Meyers.  The rest of the afternoon we put one of them together.  The other is still in the box.  Friday I bought a desk to go with the bookshelves which also needs to be assembled.  We’ll work on that next week, since I’ll be home, time’s no problem.

Money is.  I probably shouldn’t have bought the furniture.  Somehow it seemed imperative.  We comfort ourselves with material possessions.  I'll love my study when it's done.  And these items were inexpensive, on sale, but nice.  I worked out a budget to figure my total monthly minimum.  I’m anxious to find out how much unemployment benefits will be. 

Monday I’m working seriously on the new resume, hoping to review it with Linda later in the week and begin seriously submitting job applications.  But, I’m also wanting to investigate establishing a home business, probably web based, possibly computer programming. 

Friday, breakfast, bike ride, budgeting, lunch, shopping, dinner in downtown Medford and Next Stage Repertory Company's production of "3 Viewings" at the Craterian.  The day was over. 

Time slips by so quickly.