Holy Cow

Well, this is kind of sad. I haven't posted since early 2008, yet my personal description is still pretty much the same...not that I've been unemployed since 2006, but I sure as hell am unemployed now - since early 2009. Yeah, I'm not suicidal, but I wouldn't object to a freak accident...

But wait! In the intervening years I picked up warm glass as a hobby - so on evenings where I'm not mourning my station in life, I may just post information about my ongoing projects :-)

Right now I've just wrapped up my homework for the day (more on that later), and I've got 2 episodes of HGTV's "Selling NY" to watch, I've never seen the show before, but Mom recommends... and I'm living in her basement, and splicing off her cable, so, what the hell - let's drink a little dram while we dream a little dream....

The People I Don't Want to Be...

I ran with a “bad” crowd, back then.
Scammed for deceased grandparents’ Medicaid checks.
Cashed food stamp dollars so there would be enough change for cigarettes and beer.
Slept in a basement storage room.

So romantic,
We made love on top of buildings….
But it was really because we had no other place to go.
I remember listening to early rap in the basement of an old folks’ home…
We could camp there because no one was awake after 10.
Had sex on the gravel of their roof, and in their basement.The occupants all blissfully unaware…..
He used more gel than I did, but it was the 80’s
Not unusual to try to run your fingers through your lover’s hair
And find them stymied by hairspray….

HALLELUJA!!

I haven’t been writing lately, kind of working on the “If you can’t say something nice…” premise.  I had nothing good to say, everything that I’d worked for was being stripped away, and I was going to get through it, but I certainly didn’t want to write about it.  Now, the light at the end of the tunnel has not only appeared, it’s given me a damn pretty tan.

I won my unemployment case!  I got a job with better pay, hours, vision, and ethics than my last one!  I am suddenly solvent AND employed.  I am thrilled and a little overwhelmed, given that these events transpired within a couple days of each other.  But holy cow, it sure felt good to get up this morning and go to a meeting…how often does one say that?!

Will write more later, just wanted to share my joy with the world.