Well,
since I last posted I have completed my last days at my former job.
The last day was kind of hard. The office manager had gone to visit her
oldest daughter & granddaughter in SC and so I spent my last 4
days there in the main office by myself. The last day, every time I did
something, it would cross my mind that this was the last time I would
do this task. But I made it through and have been unemployed since
leaving work at 5 pm on October 29th.
I have applied
for unemployment and if I am doing it right, I expect to see something
next week. Through this week it is saying that nothing has been
processed, but I think that is because there is a 1 week waiting period
& last week, which I applied for on Sunday of this week, was my
1st week of being unemployed. I don't know for sure, it's extremely
hard to get through by phone and I have never applied for unemployment
before!
I have also emailed my resume & letter
of recommendation to several companies for consideration. I told the
temp agency that they could submit my resume for 2-3 companies in
addition to the ones that they submitted it to prior to my last day at my
previous
job.
I
have been doing more cooking than I had been prior, mostly because now I
am at home during the day, so even when D works evenings, I can cook
before he heads to work. This is something I haven't done a lot in the
last 5 years - mostly because I hate to cook for 1 or 2, but I am not
miding having left-overs right now. D also has been kind of picky
about what he would or wouldn't eat for a while, checking everything to
make sure it didn't have hydrogenated stuff in it & so on. But
he seems to right now at least, not be being so picky about things.
I
also have done some more knitting, crocheting & just plain
resting up a bit. I have even turned off the alarm. Am still waking up
about 7-8 am, was 5-6 before, so not sleeping in too badly. I have had
to fight with myself some to keep from staying up quite so late at
night. My more natural inclination is to stay up until about 4-5 am,
then sleep in until at least about 10 am.
I took my sister out for her 47th
birthday on November 4, made her a cake (wanted to make it look like
siamese cat, but after giving it to her & the looking at the
pictures I took I realized that I forgot to trim the bottom of 1 ear
with black icing) & gave her a crocheted scarf as a gift. I am
going to be going out to brunch this coming Saturday with 2, maybe 3
women I went to school with from grade school. We have all reconnected
on Facebook (at least 3 of us have, the other is not on FB, but I keep
running into her around town, so trying to get her to join us, but she
doesn't have a phone) and have decided to get together. It's been 33+
years since we all graduated high school. I remember the one being in
class with me in 10th grade, but she left to have a baby. The other I
don't re
member
seeing her at all in high school and she says she doesn't remember
either me or J from high school. That is kind of what happens when
you combine about 8 grade schools into 3 junior highs, then all into 1
high school of about 1500 people total for 3 grades.
I
have had 2 of the granddaughters for their visits with me. The oldest
wanted to go to Wichita to the Museum of World Treasures and wanted to
invite my youngest to go with us there. We ended up getting in on an
"opening" of a redone exhibit. The youngest decided she wanted to go to
the movies to see MegaMind and to the Kansas Cosmosphere to go through
the museum. I ended up losing a knitting needle somewhere between an
Apollo 13 exhibit & going through Wal-mart, so guess it was a
good thing I had also tucked in some more yarn & needles just in
case. I was able to start a scarf for the youngest during the movie. I
got home and was able to transfer the 1st scarf to another set of
needles, so have finished it now, except for double checking sizing as
soon as I see the kids again. I have decided that at the moment, at
least until unemployment kicks in, my time is more plentiful than money,
so I will try to use stash yarn & make things for the kids for
Christmas this year. Maybe will make a meal or 2 for our adult kids as
our gift to them.
I
saw a picture of a scarf online that the designer was selling the
pattern. But I could tell by looking at the scarf pretty much how she
had done it. So I decided to try casting on & duplicating it for
the most part. I added 1 more hole to the design on each side, then I
decided to try adding a hood to it. The orange one is the 1st set that I
have finished. The multi is made from yarn I had left from a project
for the same granddaughter from about 5 years ago. She still likes the
yarn. I decided to make hers a bit different since I now had a real
feel for the design, so I turned every other one upside down &
did it in reverse. I think she will like it! I have thought on
& off for years about trying to add a hood to scarves so th
at they are all in one.
I
also finished weaving in the ends on a baby blanket that I had done a
few years ago. It is now being used by the latest new family member -
my sister's newest grandson that was born October 18th.
Yesterday
I started rearranging our bedroom. I need to move a few more things
& then I think I may take the recliner in there as well as a
corner desk. Set the desk up so that D can have his typewriter set up
all the time (he refuses to learn to use a computer, but is always
wanting to make copies of things to keep - just cannot convince him that
things would be so much better if he had it on the computer) and the
recliner will allow me to have a place to sit & crochet or read
in the bedroom, if I want. Because of D's back, he prefers to lay
down on the bed than to sit in the living room in the evenings anyway,
so I could sit with him.
I have also done some knitting
on another shawl for my mil, but I find it hard to work on in the
evenings when the light is lower. So it isn't getting as much progress
as the scarves are right now. I have 5 grandkids to get something done
for, so that will take a bit of time.
I am
also trying to figure out exactly how to add Ravelry Progress Bars to
my blog of the projects that I have up on Ravelry. I seem to be missing
something because I copy the api info & put it into the bigger
box for the widget, but the only thing that shows up in my title for
that section. Guess I am going to have to do more digging to get that
set up.
Well, probably should get around & get something done for today! Hope you all are having a good week!
So sorry that your job is ending. How hard do you think it will be to find another?