Day 1

Today is my first official day of unemployment!!!!

Yes, please,  congratulate me!

I now begin my new adventures as a house-husband/rock star/entrepreneur!

And I though I should document some things here!  Tasks, plans, laziness, hard work, et al.

For those of you who don't know me, well, you'll get to if you read this, I suppose.  

But, to begin, I've worked at my company for 5 years and 3 months.  Last week, whilst I was on vacation in sunny and beautiful Tulum, Mexico, I learned that, due to these difficult economic times, the company had to lay off about 200 people, myself included.  Did I mourn this job loss?  Hell F'ing NO!  I really was done with that place.  I had 6 different jobs while I was there, and didn't see anywhere else to go in the company.  Not to mention, I was really getting tired of the corporate life, and a job in a company who's sole purpose is to make rich people's lives better.  I need something more fulfilling.  So, I grabbed a bottle of Tequila and celebrated!!!!

I returned from Mexico on Saturday, the 24th, and found my package of forms to fill out and severance information.  I got a pretty good package, actually.  Welcome to early retirement!  Today, being Monday, is really the first day of my unemployment!  And I have plans, oh boy do I have plans!

So, today's accomplishments:

1. Woke up at 745 am, and drove my wife to work (she has a broken foot).  I will do this every day even when she's better, because otherwise I'll sleep the days away.  Scraped the frozen snow from last week off the car, broke the damn scraper!

2. Dropped off the wife at her office just after 9 am

3. Stopped at Starbucks for my Quad-Grande 3-pump Vanilla Latte

4. Went to the office!  WHAT??  Yeah, well, I wanted to return the paperwork in person, ask a few questions, hopefully get my W2, and visit some friends!

5. Met with my friend in HR for a while, went over the package.  On my way back out of the office, the CEO was walking buy.  She gave me a hug and asked how I was doing.  Not sure how wise this was, but force of habit, I exclaimed 'I'm GREAT!'  Then, realized this potential faux pas, I put my hand on her shoulder and asked how she was doing.  

6. On my way out, a few friends joined me and we chatted for a while outside.

7. Drove to downtown JP.  

• Went to the bank to deposit my final paycheck (can't wait to get that severance check!)
• Went to the convenience store to buy a scratch ticket (why not?)
• CVS to pick up a few things the wife needed (poor thing needs a shower seat for her broken foot)
  
• The Hardware store to buy a new Scraper (damn broken scraper)
• Blanchards Liquors, cuz if I'm gonna be home, I'm going to need lots of beer.  My one present to myself, they have 8 different kinds of Allagash (excluding the normal one, which, funny enough, I didn't see) that I've been wanting to try.  Big bottles with corks!  So I bought one of each, plus a 12pack of Shipyard, and a 6pack of Mayflower porter (new local brewery in Plymouth, Mass, near my Mum's house!).  That's right, support your local companies.  Screw the big biz and their bad beer.  2 Maine breweries and one from here in MA!  Yeah, lots of beer
• Java Joe's for another coffee and a Greek bagel sandwich (eggs, kalamata's, onion, feta, and spinach)

8. Finally got home, and I'm guessing it was about noon.  I ate my brunch while watching the season premier of the new Tim Roth drama, Lie To Me . I love Tim Roth, so I checked it out, and it was actually quite good.  Thank god for DVR.  

9. After that, went outside to get everything out of the car, and chatted with my neighbor for a while.  Too long, in fact, but what can you do!  

10. Now I'm here, on the computer, which I said I'd do just for a second to check my facebook and email, but I was thinking about doing this blog, and here I am doing it!!!  Its now 3, and I have to leave in an hour to go pick up the wife and head to acupuncture!  

Final thoughts, quite a nice first day of freedom!

Upcoming projects:

1. Clean this House
2. Empty the litter boxes, and begin doing the daily scoop
3. Clean out the basement so my band, Burnt Fur, can finally move into my house!
4. Work on music a lot more, since the band is in the house!
5. Clean and organize my whole life's collection of stuff
6. upload my entire CD collection to iTunes, and downsize, and write reviews online at a music blog I'm soon to be taking over
7. Possibly create a blog that can be incorporated to my band's site
8. Create at least 2 blogs for 02 Yoga.  One for vegan recipes, one for people who went on the trip to Maya Tulum
9. Enroll for unemployment
10. Possibly start my own business, as well as maybe become a dog walker!  Personal reminder, check out Paws to Consider, my neighbors dog walker service
11. Learn Magic
12. Read a lot
13. Watch the entire Lost series again
14. Buffy too
15. watch all 3 extended Lord of the Rings movies, since I never saw the extended version of Return of the King.
16. Watch season 1 of the Wire before my friend who gave it to me kills me
17. Cook a lot of Vegan food

I'm sure there will be more!

Alright, first entry done.  I'll pretty up this blog another time.  Until then, have fun at work, suckers!!!!!