Things I've Done With My Time Off Due To Lack-of-Work Unemployment

• Attended to my social life (visited friends, talked to people in person--see below, called everyone back)
• Disconnected the internet
• Solidified my whistling skills
• Wrote six different versions of my resume
• Bottled last year's apple wine
• Learned how to make a sock monkey
• Got addicted/further addicted to new TV shows on DVD (Six Feet Under, The Wire)
  
• Bought things with change
• Hung out laundry
• Went camping with my family
• Visited friends' families
• Argued with Daughter, who has been out of camp for three weeks and is blessedly going back tomorrow
• Cut coupons out of the paper and let them expire
• Cooked beans
• Walked
• Walked a lot
• Went gardening
• Spent a lot of time at the public library for free internet
• Used three online services to search for jobs
• Applied for twelve jobs (and still counting)
• Made lists of things
• Forgot what day of the week it is
• Thought about knitting
• Went to the beach twice
• Made a list of things I would buy if I had unlimited money
• Got sunburned
• Picked strawberries
• Got definitely rejected from two jobs
• Made at least four different budgets
• Forgot about important appointments
• Became despondent about my job prospects
• Became ecstatic about my job prospects
• Took a nap