Sorry For My Absence

So these past three months have been absolutely horrible for me. I’m still out of work and still without prospects for a new job.

I just celebrated by 40th birthday two weeks ago and even though several people at my “party” told me they would have thought I was still in my 30’s, I’m beginning to feel older and older with each passing unemployed day. My confidence level is dropping and dropping and bringing my mood right down with it.

I keep trying to find ways to at least improve my mood so that I can have a positive attitude to bring with me on a job interview. Oh wait - I can’t even get an interview…    

About three weeks ago I started on a freelance project that I thought would take about a week. I over-thought the project and it turned into a two and a half week long project. It actually worked out quite well because the client was quite pleased with the “admin” section I had developed for him. Absolutely no changes were made at all to the original design. Even though I wasn’t a huge fan of the design (lots of bright yellow), after speaking with Delayne about working on his project I found that the content and the design really fit him perfectly. If I would have thought about a trendier design I think it would have seemed kind of like false advertising.

There’s another freelance project that was supposed to have started about seven months ago. They’ve finally gotten to the point where they are ready to start to actually have me work on it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to matter that I’ve been hanging out here waiting for more work and I’m expected to leave the project at the price I quoted at the beginning. Fortunately, they also had a brochure designed independent of the new design style I had come up with and they preferred the brochure design over mine. Why is that fortunate for me? Quite honestly, I wasn’t huge on my design at all. I like the design of the brochure and I’m looking forward to incorporating it into the site design.

So…needless to say I’m at a point now where I need to start thinking about finding a temporary home for my kitties. My friend Kelley has said that I can flop at her place until I get back on my feet. LOL like I can really get on my feet working at McDonald’s or Burger King? Not bloody likely that’s for sure. And while it’ll be great to have a place to stay, because of cat allergies and her two VERY playful Dalmations there’s no way can I bring my kitties. I hope they’ll understand and forgive me for breaking up our family for a little while.

On a positive note, I do have another freelance project coming my way and I haven’t been evicted yet. Kelley is going to go with me to try to get unemployment or welfare - whatever it takes to help get me through until I can find a job worth getting up for in the morning.