LaToya M. Davidson-Perez

In the interest of being more productive I’m blogging today so that I won’t forget to do so later. Last night, once I was finally able to go to sleep, I slept from around three hours prior to my hubby returning home from work. I was then up for a few hours and went to sleep for another six hours. I’m still feeling a bit tired since my sleep schedule is off but I’m at least a bit more rested. I’m also still keeping my employment options open. While I will likely start working the retail management job that I was offered next week, I am holding out hope that I will also pick up some things via Elance so that I can earn some cash by doing some work-from-home opportunities. Ideally I’d like to work entirely from home but I know that there is a lot that goes into that. And although I’ve done a lot of the legwork and have a fully equipped office, it may not be something that I can do as my primary job. So if any of you out there needs a personal/virtual assistant, please let me know! If I could stay home and work full-time for at least $20/hr. I’d be quite happy.

My former house, wow, that’s strange to say, it’s now sold and everything has been paid for. As I mentioned yesterday, we didn’t really make much on the sale. We basically broke even. And while I’m happy that it’s done, I do wish I was able to make enough to pay down and pay off some bills. However, it’s just enough to carry us for about a month. So, me starting a job quickly is the utmost priority at present. While I am still at home I am planning on doing some other online activities such as culling my social network connections. More specifically, I plan on trimming my Facebook friends list as well as decide which, if any, professional affiliations I will maintain. In anticipation of starting back to work next week I have a list of tasks I’d like to complete at home so that I don’t feel as though I’m overwhelmed in any one area of my life. However, today I think that I’m going to try to get some additional sleep so that I can get myself in a position to be more productive as a whole.

Well, it’s off to get some additional rest. I think I’ll curl up in bed and do some leisure reading for a while and then take a still much-needed nap. Until next time, be sure to check out today’s poem, Push.

I feel as though I’ve been quite negligent of my blog. To be honest, sometimes it’s a bit sad that I don’t get much feedback on my posts. Sure, I can see the WP stats but there is little to no real dialog generated by my posting. All the same, even if no one read anything that I wrote, I’d still feel compelled to do so. It has been more than a week, ten days to be exact, since I last wrote. On the one hand I don’t know where all those days went and on the other, I realize that I have just been dragging my feet.

There was a few days in my blogging absence that I was just really depressed. Last Monday I was in a horrible mood and I think that as a result I was a bit of annoyance to my hubby and to my brother. Since then my mood and outlook has improved. For a good portion of the past few days I have been fairly down about things. I felt as though the weight of being unemployed was, not so much too much to bare, just draining. I like to be busy and although I have still not yet fully unpacked our items from the move, I was in no mood to do so. I have been really horrible about my sleeping habits as well. At present I’m extremely sleep deprived. I tend to go to sleep around 3 or 4am and have been waking getting up only after about 4 hours of sleep. The days, of course, have been running together. Although it’s Tuesday my body feels as though it’s much later in the week. And despite the nerves in my eyes hurting and the fact that I am having difficulties keeping my eyes open, I didn’t want for another day, or another moment to go by without updating my blog. I find comfort in writing, even if it’s about trivial things. However, I’m tired to the point of delirium and so this will have to be quick.

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This week has been filled with ups and downs. Chaotic insurance issues that took up all of my day yesterday gave way to the anticipation of an upcoming week of me waiting to hear back regarding two of the jobs I hope may lead to employment. I’ve been out of the office since early December. With the hysterectomy that I had in the early part of the month, I haven’t been steadily in an office environment for months. I must say that despite still being slow to fully unpacking, my home office is fully functional. If I need to work from home, I’m fully equipped. What I’ve been doing is lightweight compared to what I can do. I’ve been cleaning up my email, working on cleaning up my profiles on various social network sites, prepping for my name change and a bit more.

Yesterday’s chaos resulted in me and the insurance agency being unsure as to when my cover has or will end. Additionally, I have signed myself and the hubby up for the Affordable Care Act (aka Obama Care). Say what you will about it, I am glad that it’s an option. There is no way we could afford to continue health cover under COBRA. It’s crazy, really. COBRA, while great in theory, is absolutely horrible in practice. If you’re not working, who exactly would you be able to afford the employee and employer portion of the premium cost? In our case, in order to keep the health plan we presently (or formerly) had under COBRA it would cost over $1,600 per month! If things work out as they should, we shouldn’t have a break in coverage. That would be nice. Upon learning that we likely still have insurance coverage, I quickly refilled all of our prescriptions. In all their cases we have 3-month prescriptions so at least we’ll have 3 months of meds regardless of what happens.

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