Category: Daily Life

A New Day!

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So far this morning:

* Woke kids (after waking with the room spinning)–slept while they got ready

* Took kids to school

* Slept until my interview. I was getting dressed slowly to keep the room spinning at bay and the phone rang early so I rushed to answer the phone literally falling against walls and trying not to throw up. It was my wife reminding me about the phone interview. I ruded said “that hurt. don’t do that again.” and hung up. That was wrong. She had the best of intentions but I was in agony by the time I reached the phone. I know its probably psychosymatic related to stress but that still doesn’t mean the room didn’t take off like a jet plane when I ran to answer the phone.

* Phone interview was tough. They will make their decision next week.

marketing out

In what is certain to be a wasted effort, I distributed marketing flyers to 4 or the 5 “dance” clubs in town. I figure no one else will touch them, why shouldn’t I try.

Without the plastic covering the back doors, the outside air flows through this room like wind whipping through a canyon.

I should work more but I’m going to sleep.

* have now rested–feel better but still queazy

Jeff Foxworthy Speaks:

-IIIiiiF you have a major appliance stored on your back porch with hopes of repairing it ONE DAY, then you might be a redneck.

-IF yooouuu own and use a hand cart to move a major appliance in and out of your house, you might be a redneck.

-IIiiiiF YOU open your basement door to exchange the old appliance with the new (used) appliance AND the temperature of your bedroom DOES NOT change, then you might be a redneck.

It seems… I’m a redneck! 🙂

* feel like crap. I kinda waver between wanting to pass out and wanting to lose my lunch

* apparently the kids are scared of me when I use the tone of voice that I use with them.. try harder or give up?

* I gotta rest a sec

* bathed then had incredible dizzy spell and almost passed out. Had this vertigo condition a year ago when things were bad. It’s obviously stress induced. Without warning, the room will take off and its everything I can do to hold my stomach. Closing eyes doesn’t help and actually makes it worse.

* took some meclizine and slept 2 hours. felt better. took more meclizine and went to kinko’s then father in law’s to pick up their old dryer as a hold over for our broken dryer.

* Contacted headhunter to get a “yeah.. everyone is kinda busy getting back from the holidays but we expect things to pickup” type of answer

* got home to find that I won’t be going immediately out with marketing materials as planned

* phone interview rescheduled for tomorrow

* worked on my website for a bit

* preparing to make sales calls

* still waiting

* Just received word from a good friend that a position I applied for locally will probably turn into a job interview. Crossed fingers.

* Anxiously awaiting my 2nd phone interview for a contract job that would have me away from my family the better part of 6 months. Yuck.

It’s begun!

* Art computer lost the brush plugin for Illustrator. This nice piece I made last night now can’t be used. Ugh. Reboot and the machine hangs. The laptop is just sloooow. And now every time I flip between machines on the analog switch box I lose the keyboard on the XP machine and can only get it back by logging into a non-administrative account (without a password) then log out of that account and back into the administrative account. Time for some food.

8:00 am Kids are off to school. Oops. Must give medicine to the home schooler and then prepare for my phone interview.

It’s cold as all get out! I so need to fire up the wood stove but none of the wood is split; I can’t afford to buy split wood; and the flue hasn’t been inspected in 2 years.

A New Day!

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* After declaring zzs last night I proceeded to stay up until 1:30 working on my design concept for a site that I hope will produce money for me although I have failed to follow my business plan and launch ahead of my competition

* Woke 10 year old half an hour ago to have her finish her school work. Now grabbing another 30 minutes of sleep against my better judgement. I should be greeting the day with stretching exercise or work.

* pondering zzzs – Should work on a website..

* Went upstairs to help the 10 year old finish a long term project for school. Told wife she was tired and snippy then proceeded to let the tone of her voice set me off at which point I became angry and now I feel like crap.

* Finished marketing brochure for a unique market. Hopefully this is a nice angle.

* Hind quarters getting sore. Have now applied online to one job possibility and signed up with another recruiter. A good friend helped search out several others and has inspired me to barage people with resumes and cover letters at a rapid pace. Must break for coffee and maybe a brief bit of reading. I am disappointed that I did not get marketing materials out today. I’m detecting a pattern since I’ve been trying to get these into the right hands since before Christmas–fear? procrastination? ambivalence? decision through lack of decision?