It's definitely summer this week...

It's been in the 90's for days with high humidity and heat indexes in the 105 range - I have thanked GOD every day this week for my central air conditioning! And I have appreciated friends with a swimming pool who invited us over to swim a few times.

I have not had fun at the restaurant this week, it's a pizza place and we don't have central air, only stand alone units that don't make a dent in it. Because of this fact hardly any customers braved it this week and that is okay with me, it was 98 degrees in the dining room on Thursday (no lie) and I didn't want to have to move from the AC unit I had blowing right on my neck. It finally rained last night and it's somewhat cooler today but it will still be insane in there tonight and that is where I'm heading.

Updates - husband's SSDI got approved in May (after only 3 months) which has eased my concerns about finding full time work. My unemployment is extended through mid-September at least and I won't know until then if it's going to be extended again. I am looking for jobs - but finding anything closer to home that pays decent is turning out to be near impossible. A full time job about 20 miles from home that will want me to put in 110% effort but pays 1/2 of my former salary just doesn't appeal to me. Part time positions seem to be scarce at any pay scale. I applied for a lunch server position at another local restaurant and didn't even get a call - guess the owner didn't find me appealing. :(

My plans are to keep looking - and enjoy the summer because I think full time work is in my future again in the fall, maybe less stressful and definitely less lucrative but it seems I will need to do it if a part time position doesn't come up.

I do have one pipe dream/long shot that I'm working on. It involves a proposal to some very cosmopolitan guys from NYC who have become gentlemen farmers in our area. They have a TV show actually on one of the many Discovery Network channels and I have a skill that they are in desperate need of. The problem is they don't know they need me - YET - but I'm working on changing that. It could solve a whole heap of my problems if they agree that they need my skills and it could be VERY good for them too. So fingers crossed and maybe more info later on that one. I hope to make preliminary contact this coming week and schedule a face to face to lay out my proposal.

TGIF - Found Diesel Hanging with Brad & George

I found this picture on people.com and I had to stare - not at the two hot guys front and center (although they certainly are both pleasing to the eye) BUT instead to the guy to the right in profile. I know that Diesel of The Mattress Police Fame is known for inserting his mug into many celebrity shots and movie stills but how did he manage this one? Was he in Venice socializing with the A-Listers? Does anyone else see the resemblance?
Bravo Diesel! Bravo! (And if you are so inclined feel free to click here and give me a smile!)

It's sad that someone had to die...

to knock Brittney Spears and her atrocious behavior out of the limelight for 5 minutes. I was stunned to hear of Heath Ledger's untimely death, at the oh so young age of 28 and with his career just taking off. I hope the autopsy reports show something other than drug overdose as the cause of death, I'm not sure why but finding out he had a rare reaction to an antibiotic that caused his death would seem more right than finding he just took too many sleeping pills in his quest for sleep.

RIP Heath.

It's good to not be famous...

if you are going to have a complete mental breakdown. I was out today at BJ's Wholesale Club and every single magazine on one rack had Brittney Spears on the cover. Some called her crazy, others talked of her mental illness, one showed her in restraints being hauled off.

I'm no fan of Brittney Spears - never liked her music or particularly paid that much attention to her - but I am feeling sorry for her now. It seems she is going through a rough patch for sure - if she does indeed have a mental illness all the "crazy" press can't be helping. It certainly does seem she's been extremely manic since the birth of her kids if the tabloids can be trusted and maybe she needs some help and some privacy?

Oh well I rest safely in the fact that if I was going completely fucking out of my mind crazy - it would never make a single headline and at least that is something.