Unemployment Isn’t So Bad

Easy to say when it’s only been a week.  Outside my window there is Japanese maple exploding in orange and red colors against a blue blue sky.  Not a bad view.  Swan Lake was a pleasure, though I don’t think either Mom or I really anticipated men in tights to be so very… distracting.  I thought that I was going to get used to it, but then… nope, still mesmerizing.  Classic and widely admired ballet, music by a master and all I take away from the performance is from the waist down.  Ah well.  The prima ballerina was lovely, and it was great to see such a strong production from our very own Oregon Ballet School.  That being said, maybe next time we’ll just do the opera.  It’s safer.  I did make one catcall to the French horn player on the sidewalk outside the auditorium, to salute a kick ass horn section.

My week of unemployment has thus far offered me time to knit, hours of video gaming, a little fretting about what to do next, and some semi-productive entreprenurial scheming.  It may even pay off if I play my cards right.  I’m going to look at it as an opportunity in disguise and do everything in my power to make a little profitable lemonade with these dumb lemons.  Self reflection being foremost on my mind lately, here’s a little list of WHAT WE SHALL BE WORKING ON NEXT:

• Finding an excuse to wear those strappy shoes again.  I love them.
• Oh, and get a job.
• Or maybe a business liscense and set up my own little thing.
• Possibly participating in NaNoWriMo, since I’ve failed the last 3 times I tried to do it.
• Travel if I can possibly manage it on the cheap.
• Go fishing.  Because I might as well.

Simple list, some of the items are fairly ambitious, though.  For the time being, I’m going to go do some housework-related task so it looks like I did something other than just sit on my ass all day.

~ by Hillory on October 22, 2008.