Happy Birthday, USA

Happy 4th to all of you. Those that ran the Peachtree Road Race, congratulations and your new t-shirt sure is nice. To all of us who didn't run the Peachtree, way to go. Congratulations, but you don't have a new t-shirt...

Something Good
Read this today in the AJC. Sometimes it's good to hear some Good Things about the US. Leonard Pitts is one of my favorite columnists, he says it right. I started reading his columns when I used to get the Miami Herald, so I was pleased to find him in the AJC, even once a week.

Crash and Burn
It's a beautiful day, not too hot (yet) and not terribly humid. I'm still in the purge and clean phase, today (maybe) I'll be moving my matress into another bedroom and at least getting ready to paint the master bedroom and bathrooms. The bathrooms are all attached, so if you paint one, ya gotta paint them all. I went to IKEA yesterday and bought a lovely kitchen light. It's a really cool one that hangs down, but now that I've gotten home, I've got too many things hanging, so to make my life easier, I'll take that one back and get a smaller, cheaper light fixture. In the meantime, I don't have an overhead light in the kitchen. I'll get over it.

I will take one of my happy pills in a few minutes. I still haven't heard from the company I interviewed with almost 2 weeks ago. That's not good, especially when the Headhunter said they wanted to move quickly. Even the guys I interviewed with said that one of the managers would be on vacation last week, and with the 4th falling mid-week, I'm guessing that other important people will be on vacation this week, but it's a bit unnerving. I had a phone interview Monday that didn't go very well, I couldn't give this guy the buzz words he was looking for and he basically told me he won't be back with me. It's frustrating because I know I can do this job, I'm adaptable and can learn, but I can't even get a chance.

So staying in Atlamta or not, I have to get a job, soon. I'm running out of money, patience and confidence. My COBRA health insurance will run out in a few months. In November I had the skin cancer thing, and I have high blood pressure. I had a mammogram last week and I have to go back for 'additional evaluation'. It could be nothing, just a bad picture, but I don't need this stress.

I'm frustrated in everything I do. I don't have money to make the improvements I want to my house to be able to sell it or even rent it out. I don't have the money to do much of anything. I've become a hermit, not going anywhere, not doing anything, mostly by choice. It's tough to get out an socialize when you've got nothing to talk about, nothing is happening in your life, and you don't know when (or if) that will change.

The alternative is to go hashing, walking thru trash, brambles and poison ivy in 90 degree heat, all for the purpose of drinking cheap beer. Used to be fun, now, not so much. Not in the mood for that stuff.

I have to get some of this weight off, but not working, not socializing, not having much to look forward to makes it extremely difficult to deny yourself comfort food. It could be done, but by someone stronger than me right now.


More to come...
As things happen, I'll be posting. Thanks for taking the time to read. You're opinions are welcome but if you have to start calling me names, don't bother, I won't read them. As my Dad says 'Opinions are like a**holes, everyone has one.'