My Horrible, No Good, Rotten, Pathetic Day

I did a little rip from Alexander and I apologize for that. Today just hasn't been totally awesome and I have a migraine. Bummer.

First, I waited on hold forever to speak to someone at the state's Unemployment Insurance Agency. I called because, though I have been officially unemployed since the end of October, I have not received a red cent from the guvvie. Well, apparently the state is doing an investigation, that could take 6-10 weeks, because I QUIT my job last fall to attend law school. Now, I didn't go to law school then because I got recalled to active duty and had to enjoy a high paid vacation in Afghanistan. Yay me! So I get back in October and cannot start school until January at the earliest (my intention) but I am also without an income and apparently no one is keen on hiring me right now (even when I fail to mention that I will be a very temporary employee). I kind of thought that I could get a short term gig at a retail store this time of year. The bright spot is that there is a "waiver" that may allow me to continue collecting UI while in school, the clerk put my intentions on file, so at least something got done, however small. Of course, my luck will be that my UI claim will get denied altogether because I'm planning to attend school.

Okay, so after that I was feeling broke and sorry, but decided to run downstairs and get something out of the freezer for dinner. OMG! The veggies in my veggie freezer were thawed, the freezer apparently has not been working for at least a couple of days now. I didn't get into it yesterday. I think I may have saved everything, the middle parts were still frozen and I had some room in my meat freezer and in the refrigerator freezer. I did have to take four paper bags full of strawberries over to the neighbors (they have three chest freezers!). Needless to say, we are going to be eating a lot of veggies over the next week or so, because everything was still cold but I want to eat up everything that was thawed. Might cook some things up into a veggie soup that I can refreeze in lunch portions for my upcoming school days.

So, I'm still working on a post about my friend Dave Camp, perhaps I'll get that out to you tomorrow. For now, I'm going to enjoy a glass of wine (not that it will help the headache but it will help me feel ultra-rebellious and I like that right now).

My wish for you is that your day is much better!