Saw this and realized that with everything going on in the world I'm doin' ok.

I could be this asshole

I'm so over politicians cheating on their wives. This guy did it over Father's DAY!!!

His poor wife and kids!

One of my favorite shows is Kathy Griffin-My life on the D-List. Kathy Griffin is so obnoxious and gossipy I loooooooooooooooooooovvve her.

Anyway, this week she had a long sit down with Lily Tomlin, who I've always thought was a very cool chick. The interview was as hysterical and awesome like I expected. I did learn something unexpected (and in hindsight I'm kind of like umm DUH) is that Lily Tomlin is a lesbian.

With all the shit I read and hear why didn't I know that?

Also why do I remotely care?

Thirdly, is it wrong that I am now going through random actors and actresses from my childhood trying to figure out each of their "deals"?

Please don't misconstrue, I'm very supportive of the Gay community and for their rights (make marriage equal now bitches!) But despite my liberal leanings there will always be the sheltered Catholic girl in me still who finds unexpected/obvious outings fascinating.

This reminds me of the day in college when I realized the over-arching storyline of Three's Company was Jack pretending to be gay to be allowed to live with two women. I actually interrupted my roommate's studying to tell her what I realized and she was like, "um Thanks Tips.....did you know that the two ugly chicks in Bosom Buddies are actually men too?" Yeah, it was pretty embarrassing.

I guess in some ways its similar to my shock when I found out that Rick Astley was white after hearing him on the radio for a long time. Pasty white boys just don't sound like that!!! It was surprising, and yet it was bothersome that it was surprising or even something I was thinking about.


In my heart I hope that when things like sexuality or race or handicaps surprise me its analogous to me finding it interesting when I realize someone is Lithuanian like me or how surprised I was 9 years after meeting her I found out my sister in law is a good singer than some deep rooted prejudicial bullshit.

Argghhhh my head is spinning!

I'm going to quit while I'm ahead, file the sexual preference of Lily Tomlin under something that I probably should have known that really doesn't matter and mosey down to the Regal Beagle to wrap my head around all of this....

Dear Congressman McDermott,
I'm looking for a job and don't mind if people call me Liz....

Got an email today saying they'd be in touch by Wed if I made it past the first round.

While I know they were being polite there's something comedic about being contacted by email that I will be contacted when they make a decision.

Had an interview on Monday...No word yet, not optimistic...


Sigh

You know you have a problem when your day is partially ruined because a facebook game called Bejeweled Blitz isn't working for several hours.

Even worse when you start discussing it with people!

Kate, really, go read a book!


I just checked, It's back up!!! YAY!

Can you imagine broaching this with your friend?

"Um Hi, ya know how guys really love porn??? Welll..........."

"Worst...Conversation...EVER!!!"

Two Months ago on April 15th I was laid off at the end of the day which was around 6ish.

When I got home I called my mom right away. Here is how part of our conversation went:

Me "Bad news mom, I got laid off"

Mom "OH NO!"

(a few minutes of particulars being discussed)

MOM "Well Katie you know what this means....no wasting time like last year, you have to start your job search right now!!!!!"

Now some background regarding my last layoff. I had an interview within 3 weeks of my layoff and that includes a holiday weekend. I started a new job less than two months after I was laid off and I was still getting severance. I'm not exactly sure when I was wasting time...

But wait, there's more to that. This conversation was no less than 1 hour after I was fucking laid off!! Aren't I supposed to get drunk before I have to get the job search lecture?

Grrrr that royally pissed me off. I didn't think that could be topped but my father wins in that department.

He called me the next day and was very sweet and we made fun of mom for the wasting time comment..Dad is really cool...but his words of advice were priceless

"Now Kate you spent all these months losing weight, and you look great. Don't undo that by sitting around the house eating potato chips all day"

WOW

My parents are awesome.

I could be this guy. All I can think of when I see this picture is "Shiney Heiney"

Kenny G Hangs Tenor

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The origin of this Blog is based on the conversations I've had with friends about the ridiculousness of being unemployed and staying with your parents.

While I was recounting some of the cringe worthy moments my present situation has provided me with some friends one urged me to look on the bright side, suggesting it can be "The summer of Kate"

When I asked when did I become George another one reminded me, "Well you do have all your hair, so you have that working for you." Yeah I know, that guy is kind of a jerk. ha

In case you don't get the reference:

"Summer of George"

So tonight I went out to dinner with my sister-in-law Suzy who is a blast. You know you're back living on Long Island when you head to Houlihan's but I have to say I really enjoyed my nachos and burger. After dinner Suz invited me back to see my brother and to chill out. Since I'm living at home, I had to call my Mom so she didn't expect me home and worry (I'm freaking 32 and I'm checking in....someone kill me!)

I call my mom tell her the plan and she says "make sure you don't stay too late-- they have work in the morning!!!"

Translation

"Don't overstay your welcome. They have to go to work and you might stay later than they want you to. They will be annoyed and probably only invited you to be nice"

The tone is saturated with disapproval.

She finished the call by asking the time and when I said 8:15 her response was, "sigh...well its not THAT late"

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I don't know about you but I'm all about finding useless sites to make me laugh. Here is a "cute list from Huffington Post".

One thing about unemployment--your (or at least my) sleep schedule gets royally fucked up. You don't have to wake up for anything, you don't have a lot to do all day and well you don't have any reason to wake up at a reasonable hour. That and you have a lot of time for napping (yeah I guess unemployment isn't all bad)

Which is why its 3:12 am and I'm wide awake typing this for you. This wouldn't be so bad if I were back in MA in my apartment where I could dance naked in my living room at all hours and no one would know or care...but I'm not home. This week I'm down on Long Island because I was depressed on Sunday and decided to bring down some clothes and furniture to ease my move. For some reason when I'm depressed I like to drive for 5 hours and listen to depressing music. Its soothing.

OK where was I? Oh yeah, I'm at my folk's house. And when you're at mom and dad's house you have to live by their rules and revert to your 16 year old self. Which for me means sneakily staying up very late. Considering I'm 32 years old its pretty ridiculous but my sweet mother becomes terrifying after midnight and I sure as hell don't want to piss her off.

I used to hang out in the den but I got in trouble for that last visit. So here I am, in my old bedroom typing in the dark hoping that she doesn't wake up and notice.

The problem with hiding in my bedroom is that its across the hall from the bathroom and my door has glass panes over it (don't ask me why they're kinda dopey--it's just an old old house) so the glow of my keyboard and the tapping of my keys will certainly tip her off.


ugh...I just realized that in 3 hours my part time 1 year old roommate arrives. sigh, well that is a story for another time.

I'm gonna play some bejeweled blitz, the most addicting facebook game ever.

goodnight

I was laid off on 4/15/2009. Thanks. Not only did I lose my job for the second time in a year ( I got laid off in May of '08 too!) I also had to pay my fucking taxes on the same fucking day. Considering I'm a liberal there was some irony to the whole thing, but I'm still figuring it all out.

To be honest, the first lay off wasn't terrible. The economy was bad but not awful, I had 8 weeks severance, several months of insurance and it was summer. It didn't suck. It also didn't hurt that I got a job before my severance ran out and even got an overlap check!

This time, the economy is subterranean and being employed only 9 months I got a whopping one week of severance (well technically 3 but that's a whole story you don't need to know.) Whoopeee! These facts trump the good weather.

So on April 16 I began my job search in the Boston area where I have lived for the last 4 years. Now I must begin by saying that I have a decent skill set and have never had difficulty getting interviews and have about a 90% success rate in being offered a job after interviewing. Because well, I'm awesome. But no need to tell you that as you will learn that on your own. ;)

That said, I sent out dozens of applications online, contacted numerous head hunters and waited for some phone calls. And waited, and waited and waited. Over a month went by and I had not spoken to a soul. This was disconcerting. Well, more than that it was terrifying.

While doing my job search I noticed that for every job that fell within my search criteria there were about 10 jobs in NYC (close to where I grew up and where I worked for 5 years)

I also heard horror stories of people unemployed for 6 months, 10 months, and over a year. The longest I've ever been out of work is maybe 8 weeks at most so this completely freaked me out.

This along with other considerations I won't bore you with I made the hardest decision of my life to move back to NY and even more difficult move to move in with my folks until I have a job. This will save money during the indefinite period of unemployment. Also, once I do find a job the location will determine what part of the City makes the most sense to live in.

So I've given notice to my landlord (my lease will end at the end of July) began my NY job search, even started packing and bringing stuff down to Long Island where my parents live ahem, where I'll be living...

I don't know how long this is going to be for, so do me a favor and Pray for me! ;)