Long time no post, and I'm only back after using the promise to blog as leverage for a story I wanted to pry out of my favourite Goolywog, aka my mentor/savior/sounding board and surrogate auntie. She's convinced the ups and downs (mostly downs) of my life will make for fascinating reading. I'm not so sure, but since she produced a deliciously fun Supernatural/Wizard of Oz smash-up fanfic for me, I'm honourbound to live up to my side of the bargain.
Since you last heard from your heroine, I have left the employ of Reiki Woman, and spent the last year looking for another job. (Remember that suck economy I mentioned two years ago? Yeah, still going...) I managed to whittle down expenses to bare-bone, though I could probably drop..., well, theoretically I could drop the cell phone, internet and satellite, but I really need the phone for finding work, though it hasn't been too helpful thus far. Same goes for internet, and the satellite is pretty cheap. Likely I'll drop it when I need to renew. Fortunately I managed to renegotiate my car loan payment down to a reasonable amount, and got a deferral on the student loans for six months.
Where things are about to get dicey is in about one month when the last of my meager cushion I've been hoarding through my unemployment, is exhausted since my unemployment benefits expired and things aren't looking too promising with the Congress and President coming to any kind of agreement. I'm trying not to dwell on what will happen if the emergency unemployment doesn't get reinstated or if I don't manage to get a job in this coming month. I've already bummed $500 off the Goolywog and while I can make about $240 a month selling my plasma (no, I'm not kidding), that's just not enough to pay the rent, let alone utilities and the car loan. And we haven't even talked about the last ten weeks spent desperately trying to grasp Java programming going by at the speed of light in a training program. Something to look forward too, right?
