Things I miss about working #1

Days Unemployed: 229
Weeks of Unemployment Insurance Remaining: 2 and then on to the extension
Jobs Applied To Date: 80
Phone Interviews To Date: 1
In-Person Interviews To Date: 3
Pounds Gained To Date: 8
Entertainment of the Day: Grocery Shopping, Rome S2 E1-2, Dead Again, Secret Diary of a Call Girl S1 E1-4.
Lunch of the Day: Salad

Weekends. I miss the glory. There are no weekends if you don't work. No TGIF, no leaving early on Friday, no relief that the long hard week is over, no Friday department lunches with your favorite co-workers or Happy Hours at the bar across the street. Without an office to go to there is no office to come home from, no joy at staying up late and knowing that you don't have to get up early in the morning. It was looking forward to these things that used to get me through the week. Now it has to be the occasional new recipe, Netflix delivery and surfing Craig's List. The best thing about working was not having to go to work. The worst thing about not working is not being able to enjoy not working.

One of the great joys of my life was making sure the alarm was OFF. I don't remember the last time I set the alarm to go off in the single digits.