Eating bon bons and getting fat on the couch

So you would think I'd be blogging and twittering and such every day now, right?

Since I have all this free time.

*snort*

In the past week, I have cooked a couple of elaborate meals, baked cupcakes, painted the breakfast nook in the kitchen, painted the wooden dog-baby-gate-thingy that guards the doorway to the kitchen, painted the kitchen island/recycling station thingy, done several loads of laundry, vacuumed and dusted, rearranged the furniture in the bedroom, reorganized my closet and dresser, gotten groceries, gone to the library, reorganized my entire iTunes library, finished our taxes, filed unemployment, gotten hooked on Lost, and slept in once or twice.

I know I'm missing some stuff too. This being unemployed is wearing me out already.

Financially, I think we'll be okay for a month or so (knock on wood or wood byproduct or wood-based material or whatever you have readily available to you, please), due to a big ol' tax refund (thank you, educational credits!) and B's last GI Bill check that should be here any day now, and of course the unemployment benefits I've applied for. And hopefully by then I'll have a better idea of whether this lay-off is really as temporary as everyone said, or if "temporary" means "Don't sell the bike shop, Orville." In which case, I'll find something equally temporary to get us through until B's graduation, then adios muchachos. I hope it doesn't come to that, but closing doors/opening windows and all that. You never know. It might be time for a change.