Job hunting

Honestly it would be my preference to stay home a while longer and ideally have another baby (that chuckling you hear, that's god). But since we've been without an income for a year, I have to suck it up and put myself out there and try to find something. But it's getting a little depressing. I'm sending resumes for jobs that are a perfect fit for me, I've let all my contacts know I'm looking, I'm finding connections through linkedin at the companies where I've seen positions. And nothing. I've even applied for jobs I'm way overqualified for, and part-time stuff that has health benefits. We're doing ok financially but it makes me sick to tap into our savings every month. I need to get a recession proof job like news anchor or comedy writer.

Oh and I read in the paper yesterday about a guy who I went to high school with. His family bought the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. So I guess the recession hasn't really hit them so hard.

Ok my pity party is over, I took dinner to a neighbor last night who was in a head on collision a year ago with her kids (kids were ok) and was badly injured and has had many surgeries and just recently spent a month in the hospital with a staph infection. So I totally get that I am in very respects, fortunate.

But it is a bit aggravating to see people like that dumbass Nady Suleman making money. I happened to catch a few minutes of that show of hers the other night. The part I saw was where she was holding each baby up and saying something about their personality. I think 7 of the babies were crying and she didn't really even seem to notice, she'd just pick one up and say "this is mikayahahaia (i can't remember exact names), he/she is very thoughtful" and then she'd do something like try to have the baby stand up. It was ridiculous on so many levels. I think it's so strange when people try and assign all these very mature labels to their infants. Oh we call him the professor because he's always in deep thought. Really? I know babies probably understand more than we think they do but a 3 month old baby isn't solving quadratic equations in his head, he's thinking - should I cry or poop? Also, It seems to me that people who are trying to have an infant stand up and are smothering their face with kisses instead of perhaps trying to comfort them since they are crying and so are their 7 infant siblings might not be all that nurturing. There was also a scene where her 2'ish year old slapped her and called her a bitch. And where she was talking on the phone to someone and told them that her mom got sprayed by a skunk so she made her ride in the trunk and she drove fast and crazy and it was hilarious to hear her mom rolling around in the trunk. So yep, a whole lotta crazy. I must revisit my friend Charlie's theory on people like this. Stupid people have lots of kids (also stupid) because when they go out into the world not all of them are going to "stick." I think it's really Darwin's theory, by my Charlie's wording is funnier.