Weekday blues

Yes, it seems that lately all the posts are about how crappy my job is and how horrible life is and while the majority of it is true, it's not all bad.  Everyone has money woes (at least I hope they do because that would make me feel a lot better) and everything else I've complained about, so I'm thinking that I'm not alone in how I'm feeling and where things are going.

It is a Monday yet again and I'm back at the school.  This blogging thing is making it a bit easier to get through the work day because any of the emotions or problems that arise I can quickly write down and get them out of my head so they aren't always bogging me down. 

This past week has been a bunch of ups and downs, but at least I got to see a few friends and received some nice stuff (thanks Court for the cookies and thanks Beorn for the leather bracelet and leather notebook).  I never really took into consideration what my friends do for me and how I feel.  I can't help but feel a little happier when I look at my friends blogs or at the pictures from stuff we've done.  I feel better when I'm digging through the bins of fabric in my rooms downstairs and looking for inspiration from movies or nature for a few of my designs.  My cats make things better and worse all at the same time because they want to be "involved" in what I'm doing but being cats they end up playing with the fabric or the pattern pieces because they're moving; and while that makes me laugh a bit, it also gets a bit frustrating when I'm trying to figure things out.  Feathers are a completely different story.

Yesterday was the first day in a long time that I was actually able to spend some time with Jakob without other things getting in the way and what did we do?  We cleaned the house because it was ignored for almost 3 weeks.  Its hard to get things done when you come home at 3:30-4pmish and have to be somewhere at 5:45pm.  And then your days off are spent sleeping to make sure you have enough energy to get through the rest of the things that actually need to be done.  Plus, I spent some time in my garden yesterday because after looking out the window and seeing the weeds taking over 1 bed of veggies and my tomato plants falling over because of the weight of ripe tomatoes I needed to do some TLC for them.  I'm not a very organized person in general, but it felt good to be able to put the 1st floor of the house organized and cleaned.  We'll see how long it lasts (which I'm hoping for a while). 

I'm happy that the show now moves to weekends instead of the entire week.  That means that I'll hopefully be able to get some stuff done and actually be able to cook/bake this week.  Since money is very very tight Jakob and I haven't eaten out for a long time and I'm sure he's getting sick of eating PB&J sandwiches hopefully I'll be able to put the veggies to good use.  Plus, it is less gas that both of us need to spend.

I'm still looking for another job and it seems that the job market is getting smaller and smaller as the days roll on.  I'm not sure if I have the guts to actually start my business as a full-time thing yet or not, but I'm hoping in the next couple weeks I'll be able to have my Etsy shop up and running.  Here's hoping.  My mom and I have some fun designs with jewelry that we've been trying and I hope they are going to sell.