Hmm . . .

Well, I haven't blogged in awhile because the only thing I can really write about would be something like this . . . Greg got up around 10am . . . I got up around 11am . . . ok, let's be honest, 11:30am. I ate something . . . stayed in my sweats all day long . . . took a shower in the late afternoon . . . oh yea, and we watched t.v. I would LOVE to say I'm being sarcastic, but I'm not. Not even a little bit. Greg's a lot better than I am. He'll actually work out and study Spanish and look for a job while he's waiting for the Police Academy in June. I actually HAVE a job, though you wouldn't know it. I've been consistently getting two clients a week. TWO! We don't get ANY walk ins, just phone calls- so there's no point in being at the salon if I don't have an appointment. So this gives me a lot of hours in the day/week/month to do . . . um . . . yeah, not much. It's pretty embarrassing. I find myself sleeping in later and later because I don't want to face Pat in the morning- yet AGAIN- feeling like a big fat loser (to put it rather bluntly). This wonderful routine I have going has kinda of gotten me depressed. Ok, REALLY depressed. I don't like this unemployed feeling. But it's so dumb because I technically AM employed. February, in general, is a bad month for salons, not to mention how people just don't have money to spend anymore. I'll have my optimistic days, where I'll dress up and go hand out flyers I printed up and try to approach people. But, so far, this hasn't really generated ANY business. It's only been 3 weeks, so I suppose some people still might call, but I'm starting to wonder if my efforts have all been in vain. As of today, I've formed a new plan to advertise. There's this Valpak thing that's mailed out, basically an envelope with coupons in it, and I'm going to design a coupon to put in it. I think it will pay off because they mail out to 10,000 addresses at once! And they make you sign up for 4 months the first time, which will end up being 40,000 coupons sent out in 4 months. It's going to cost more money than I'd like, though in all reality it's a very good deal for what it is. I figure with THAT many people getting it, SOME will have to come in, right? I mean, even if one person out of a thousand came in, that would be 40 new clients! Which is huge! But maybe that's hoping for too many. I got the whole idea, because a salon I considered working at in the area sent out a coupon in this very pack and they told me it got a huge response and that she was going to do it again. So I'm hoping it pays off, we'll see. Either way, I've run out of options and just can't sit around like this anymore. And we're completely broke. I've never been so broke in my entire life. So that's where I've been the last 3 weeks.

Greg has passed the psych exam and will finish up his medical stuff soon. Assuming everything goes okay with that, then he has the job and will most likely start the police academy in June. It's possible there will be an academy at a sooner date! It's not decided yet- but we are really hoping for it! Feel free to add that to your prayers if you can remember!

As for him getting a job in the meantime, what a hopeless pursuit. It's so terrible out there! Terribly depressing! It has been a complete wake up call the last month. You hear about it, you read about it, you know people experiencing it- but until it's you, you just had no idea what was really going on. And it's terrible. Greg looks at the classifieds and craigslist everyday to find almost nothing that doesn't require experience and if he IS qualified- it's sending in a resume and never hearing back again. So we finally just drove around to all the fast food places to find that McDonald's has so many people coming in that they can't keep their applications stocked, so they didn't even have one for Greg. Some of place's applications don't even go through a manager, they go straight to corporate somebody, so there's no one to call or check in with, so your just the one in the thousands. One place he grabbed an application to see all the filled out ones in a giant stack on the same counter. It is HOPELESS!!! You HAVE to know somebody! And when the competition is that steep, why would somebody hire Greg 'till only June, when everyone else would be willing to stay much longer? This situation SUCKS and I feel SO BAD for everybody in it. I had no idea it was so bad, even though everyone says it is. It's really hard to shake the thought, "What's the point of even trying?" And when you have nothing to do and nowhere to go, it gets harder and harder to keep your drive and you sink lower and lower into depression until you just want to get in the fetal position and cry. This is where I would say, "Ok, I'm exaggerating," but I'm not. I have felt this way even though I DO have a job! As much as I hate everything concerning this topic right now, I just feel bad for everyone else. Atleast we have a place to live and people that are willing to feed us. Atleast we don't have kids to support and worry about. As often as I feel it couldn't get any worse, I know that's not true.

Other than that . . . has anyone else been COMPLETELY disappointed in LOST? I have been. I don't even have a desire to continue watching, which is SOOOO disappointing. I have loved LOST. Every season got better and better. I don't know what's happening now, but I don't like it. Why are they adding in so many new characters? I'm so annoyed. And they've just been on the island this WHOLE time and no one noticed? I'm so annoyed how nobody tells anyone anything. And everything looks like a set now. So fake. It didn't used to be that way. Well, that's it, I suppose.

Everyone's watching the Olympics. I just don't really care. I love the figure skating, but everything else is BORING. That's how I feel about the summer as well, I only like the gymnastics. Skating, skiing, swimming, it's the same motion in 30 second to 3 minute intervals over and over and over. It's not exciting. I might be the only one on the planet that feels this way. I think that's about it. Our life in a nutshell.