The Life of the Unemployed, Day 34: Busier Than a One-Armed Paper Hanger

Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a little. But that is the best explanation for my absence in the blogosphere as of late.

Being unemployed is incredibly time consuming.

My days are filled with all sorts of things that don't always have immediate results in regards to employment but must be done just the same -- spending entire days at the unemployment office, career workshops, resume revamping, teaching myself PowerPoint, posting status updates to Facebook, watching Barefoot Contessa, etc.

Of course, I also spend a good deal of time sending out resumes to potential employers both here in my hometown and in Chicago.

Add in my yoga workouts, my daily devotionals and the occasional errand and the day can get away from me pretty quickly.

Even though I am as busy during the day as I was when I was working, the busyness doesn't seem to have quite the same effect on my body or mind. "Working" from home, at my leisure, doing mostly what I want to do, does not leave me as physically or emotionally drained at the end of the day as working in an office did.

This causes the days and weeks to just fly by. I start the week tackling my little to do list and, before I know it, it's the weekend. And how refreshing is it to spend a Sunday evening not dreading the coming Monday?

I could get used to this lifestyle.

But. I won't. I'll just revel in it instead.

Oh, I'll always diligently look for full-time employment, but I'm also going to savor every second of every day that I don't have to work for "the man".

Snow!

Okay, we don't get much of that stuff here in the South so it's a big deal.

I'm putting the digital camera I got for Christmas to work.