Messed Up Week

I’d like to start by apologizing for not blogging for the last two days. I had an unusual personal crisis and to be honest… I wasn’t in the mood.

But today is a new day…so let’s see if we can crank this up.

I sit here patiently waiting for UPS to deliver my books for school. Classes start Tuesday. Labor Day is Monday. Yeah…

Labor Day. I have found since being unemployed that holidays are starting to feel ‘meaningless’ to me. As a matter of fact, the weekends are just as meaningless. There is nothing to look forward to.

I remember at work, in January, the Company Holiday Calendar would be sent out and we’d start plotting out our vacation days around upcoming holidays. It was exciting. Even looking forward to the upcoming weekend was exciting; it sort of got you through the week. Now each day is the same. I’ll assume this is how it will be when (if ever) I retire.

Last week I was walking into Stop and Shop and ran into an acquaintance who said “Thank goodness it’s Friday” my response back was, “Every day is Friday to me”. I don’t know if he took that wrong, I was just trying to tell him I can’t tell the difference between days anymore. One blends into another and I actually have to stop and think what day it is.

Hmmm No UPS yet!

I’ve been thinking to myself… ‘Can you say… RUT?’

So today I signed up to volunteer via AARP. I don’t know if I’ll be accepted or not, I haven’t got that far into it, but they are looking for volunteers to take a five week course (1 day per week) and after the course you are able to instruct older people on Medicare sign up procedures and explain things to them. I figure it’ll be good for them AND good for me. I’ll know how to do it PRIOR to getting to the point where I’ll need it. I’ll keep you posted (no pun intended) on what happens.

Okay… so UPS just arrived, I tore open the carton and BEHOLD!! (insert lightning bolt sound here) The Beginning of My New Career was contained inside. I’m kind of nervous.

I’m taking two courses: International Management (which should be cake because the job I just left I dealt with Germany and Thailand on a regular basis… and we aren’t at war with them, so I must have done it correctly. The second course I’m taking is English Literature, I received three books for that class: O Pioneers!, (that sound pitifully boring) Never Let Me Go, and one that seems very appropriate for me: Brave New World!

And with that I am off...To start my new adventure… my new career! … My new life! Now if I can just make through the weekend…let’s see...laundry… grocery shopping… weeding….. and so on.