Still Unemployed ....

Last time I was on here it had been five months since I lost my job, well, now it's eight and I'm still unemployed which by the way still blows. I've applied everywhere I can think of. At this point I'm not picky, I need a job!!!! So, if anyone out there in internet lands happens to stumble upon this blog and reads this and you have any ideas related to finding and actually getting employed please let me know. I'm desperate, people. I've even applied to Wal-Mart and the local convenience stores, but they won't have me. In the last couple of months, I've been to three interviews all of which I thought had gone okay but none of which panned out. So, internet gods, I implore you I need help with this job thing. I'll sacrifice my first modem for any help on the job front.

I'm running low on sock yarn. I only have 15 skeins left and I used up by Knit Picks Andean Treasure in Wild Rose last week when I knit the Springtime Bandit. I really loved the way it turned out, but I've sent it off to my best friend up in Dallas since they actually have winter like weather there.



Currently on the needles is a Log Cabin Afghan, a giant granny square blanket, and Traveling Woman Shawl. Those are the ones that I'm pretty sure will get finished.

OHhhhh, I almost forgot I also have one sock done of Monkey Socks. I'm sure the second one will

get done eventually. I made the leg much short with only three pattern repeats instead of six. I really don't like long socks.


Also on the needles, but about to get frogged is February Lady Sweater and EZ's Tomten Jacket which has been languishing for the past two years. Although I love the Feb. Lady Sweater, I've decided in my old age and wisdom that I don not have the patience for sweater knitting. That might change but for now the yarn that I'm gonna get from those two projects will become scarfs or hats or something easy and fast to knit.

Unemployment Blows

So, I lost my job back at the end of February almost exactly three years to the day I started.  I was part of what at the time was called a "reduction in the workforce" attributed to the fact that business had been sucking the last few months and banks weren't making loans.  At the time I was "let go" I was told that as soon as business started picking up that they would call me back.  I wasn't holding my breath for this because let's face it unless your business is porn or liquor it was highly doubtful that it would pick up any time soon.  And at first I was okay, no biggie, I'll file for unemployment, look for a job, take a mini vacation.  Right?  

So everything was all good, but now it's almost 5 months later and I still don't have a job.  Five months!!! And unemployment has gone caput and I still don't have a job.  So I spend my time looking for a job, not as easy as it sounds, updating twitter with inane comments because my life sucks, trying to knit, which is not as easy as that sounds with the stress of maybe running out of yarn before I find a job and am able to buy new yarn, and trying not to go insane in a house full of people all of which in one way or another are associated with the local school district so they are all here all day long because it happens to be summer.

As I said unemployment blows.