Laid Off. Again.

OMG! Has it been almost two months since I last posted?

Wow. Sorry guys.

A lot has happened in the past two months, namely I got laid off from my job at the non-profit agency.

I was completely shocked, though I shouldn't have been. With the signing of the recent budget agreement, President Obama and Congress completely eliminated one of our the agency's programs, causing a $400,000 budget deficit. That funding shortfall had to be dealt with somehow. I just didn't think solving the agency's budget woes would involve eliminating my position.

And I didn't handle the whole getting-laid-off thing as professionally as I would have liked. I cried in the office of the CEO, who did her best to be compassionate, but she's done this enough times to know that being overly sympathetic doesn't make eliminating someone's livelihood any easier. I was given a tissue and then promptly sent on my way.

So here I am, at home, jobless and living with a man who uprooted his entire life to move across 3 states to be with me so that I wouldn't have to leave a job I enjoyed only to have me be laid off from said job 2 months later.

Can you say ironic?

Oh, and speaking of ironic, I was laid off one day after I did a photo shoot with a local newspaper for an article a friend of mine did on people who found work through volunteering. That previously scheduled photo shoot bought me one more day of employment, otherwise I would have been let go on a Monday instead of a Tuesday.

I have no idea what's going to happen now but I'm open to any and all possibilities.

I've been keeping myself busy by taking a cake decorating class at my local hobby store. After posting some pictures on Facebook, someone has already asked me to make a cake for their kid's birthday in September.

Again, I remain open to all the beautiful and wonderful possibilities life may hold.