My Spinsterlicious Freedom!

I lost my job on March 4.   It's been a month and a few days and I'm a bit disturbed to admit that I'm enjoying having this time off!  It's a little embarrassing, really; I should be more upset.  It makes me sound like a real slacker, doesn't it?   

Here's the deal: I've been working since I was 15.  I'm tired.  While I've had lots of time off in my lifetime, it's usually a vacation so I'm traveling.  This is the first time that I've had an entire month of doing nuthin. 

Of course there are a few things that aren't great about not having a job:

•  Ummm...the money thing.

• Going on job interviews.  I've been extremely fortunate to have lots of interviews; I realize that.  The problem is that I have to tell the same story over and over again at each one while trying to sound interested and excited and convincing like I didn't just have this same conversation the day before. 

• Busying myself when my cleaning lady comes.   (No, of course I didn't fire her. I would have to be close to homeless to fire my cleaning lady.  I don't have a single cleaning gene in my body).  She comes too early (9a) when I'm still wandering around in my pjs.  Then I have to throw something on and leave the house because I feel ridiculous sitting around on my butt while someone else cleans my apartment.  So I have to leave.

Here's why I'm having such a good time being unemployed:

• Going to bed when I feel like it.  When I work, I need a full 7-8 hours sleep, so I try to be in bed by 11p whether I want to or not.  No more.  I go to bed when I'm sleepy.  I like it.

• Getting up in the morning when I want to. I schedule my interviews for the afternoon so I can sleep in.

• I've cleared out my DVR!   Plus, I'm watching all kinds of delicious junk on TV.  (I don't know who I love more: Judge Judy or Judge Mathis).

• This has been a real boon to my social life because I can now go out every night if I want to.  Ordinarily, I don't want to go out too many nights during the week and I certainly don't want to drink that often, but now I can... and do.

• Long, leisurely lunches. 

• Long, leisurely walks with the dog

• There's no Sunday night meltdown.  I used to dread Sunday nights because, when work stopped being good, I'd get that ugly feeling in the pit of my stomach when I thought about having to go back in.

• I was able to get away with not loaning a friend some money.  I generally think loaning money is a bad idea and this would have really been a bad idea, but I might have done it anyway because it was so pathetic.  But, I have no job so I can't possibly, right!?  (Whew).

• And lastly, the best thing about this?  Being the Spinsterlicious lady that I am, being unemployed affects no one but me!  I don't have to worry or feel guilty about the husband and children I don't have who might have been relying on the money that's not coming in. 

It's all good. (I know, I know.  I need to find a job at some point)


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