Benefits of Unemployment

It's official (ish). We are staying in Utah (98% certain). I sent an email letting my Korean employers know that because of the difficulty with the FBI that I could not tell them an exact date of me getting the background check and that I would understand if they needed to find another employee to fill the teaching position. I never received a reply. I don't know if that means they are going to wait for me or if that means that they are getting someone else.

Either way, I have started looking for employment in Utah. It's not as bad as it sounds, except for the whole, having no income, part.

Benefits of being unemployed

The mailbox opens and the flag moves, it's intense

• Catching up on my "around the house" to-do list, organizing, re-organizing, moving things around, improving the feng shui of the room
• Creating quiet books. Our Relief Society decided to put together quiet books for our activity this month and regardless of my childness (or childlessness) I wanted one. (Even if I don't have a young one to enjoy it, Daniel and I can play with it). My Relief Society leaders are insanely crafty and so I know it is going to be amazing. There are twelve pages, so everyone is in charge of making 12 duplicates of one page. Check out the one that I am working on now.
• Special time with Daniel. We have been blowing through our Netflix queue, cooking together, cleaning, and my new favorite, reading together. Daniel found some fun Math books at the library that he has been reading out loud to me while I cook, clean, etc. (that's like cleaning together, right?)
• Personal develop, I have been meaning to learn and do so many things that I have put off until I "have time" and so now I have time. I have been practicing piano, going through coursera courses, reading books, and not improving particularly fast in any of those areas, but at least feeling good while doing them. I would include exercise to this list, except for the air quality outside has been at near-death levels for the past week or more. If I can barely see my hand in front of my face because of the smog then I don't want to imagine what that would do inside of my lungs by going out and running in it.
• Always having time to hang out. Any time friends request hanging out, I always say yes. It's great.
• Updating my resume, except this mostly means changing it for each job that I apply for to make it specially formulated to show how I qualify for the position they are posting.
• Seeing weird job postings online, i.e.
• Professional flagger (you actually have to have a flagger certificate, who knew)
• Did you know that personal assistants earn an avg of 20.10 an hour
• Bore crew.. hehe
• Food demo specialist

It's a fun life. I am interviewing though so hopefully this fun life will meet another, newer fun life of going to work, learning new things, and earning money.