Mike and I have a lot of things to stress out over right now, my health being at the top of the list along with trying to find a way to get to Vegas to visit his family because he hasn't seen them in almost 2 years.
When we moved here about a year and a half ago, Mike had just lost his
job and I was working from home as a freelance journalist mostly part
time but steadily enough. It took Mike over a year to find a job. My freelance work ended last year in November but I had
started my own AVON business in June that I hoped to build up enough to
make a decent living from and I started working as a domestic aide in January.
My AVON hasn't been successful mostly because
I'm a horrible salesperson and I don't like to force people to buy from
me. I really am considering just closing up shop with it and moving on to something else when I can afford to. I quit my domestic aide job in August because the family didn't really need me and called me off work more than they had me come in.
Now, Mike has a great full time job that he loves and I've been searching for work for months. It has been a
difficult road for me. Because I have worked from home for so long, most
possible employers won't consider my application, and don't consider it
real work unless you have a successful company and are looking for
something on the side.
I'll be honest, I hate living
with my parents, especially my mother. She's a constant pain in the
butt, and even more so now because she lost her job of 30+ years in
August, so I have to see her all the time. I love her but hate living with her. I can deal with living with
my dad but my mom just doesn't know when
to leave me alone. I can be in our room working on the computer,
and she will be talking to me through the closed door because if I'm not
paying her attention, she's going to make me pay attention to her.
We really need to have two full time incomes so we can finally get back on our
feet. We both always talk about getting our own place and what we are
going to do differently than we did before. We talk about trying to buy a house again (or daydream about buying land and building a house) but there are so many things we need to do first, like de-stress our lives. We're working on it but it's one step at a time.
