A Typical Day

As many of you know, I have not started school yet and we are still looking for a job for Jamie. You may be interested what a day is like for the unemployed. Let me give you a glimpse...

Set the alarm the night before for 8:00 AM. You need to pick out an artist that you would like to listen to, because when you wake up at 8:00, you'll realize you have nothing to do...for the entire day. So you wake up at 8:00 to Ray Lamontagne's "Let It Be Me." Then it plays random songs for about 30 to 45 minutes until you actually get up. Go into the living room/kitchen/dining room to eat your bowl of apple jacks or raisin bran crunch. You didn't buy the cereal you're eating, it was all of your friends who bought you Wal-Mart gift cards (thank you for that, seriously).

As of recently, you do a workout from P90X, which takes about an hour and a half. Then, as you are cooling down, get on the internet to look for the most recent jobs, the ones that have been posted in the last 12 hours since you last checked it. Scroll through all of the nursing jobs that are available, probably 20 new ones every day. And we thought a business degree was practical.

So you finally find the administrative assistant or secretary jobs that you were searching for. Or maybe you got really excited to find a marketing coordinator position available. You put at least an hour of work into a cover letter, which you aren't even sure they read. You have your resume and new cover letter uploaded and application almost complete when they have the nerve to have you fill out a 20 minute survey. A survey? We just spent over an hour filling out the same information we sent to your company yesterday (3 times, actually) and you want to ask me if I like to work in groups, 5 being "I strongly agree." Now, it's past noon and you haven't even taken a shower yet.

Take your shower and eat lunch, a chicken sandwich on 100% wheat bread or maybe Tuesday night's lasagna.


Don't get me wrong, the lasagna was delicious. Turn on a Friends episode and watch a couple. You don't have cable yet, so you might as well. As soon as you finish the meal, you have to think about what to eat for dinner and if you have all of the ingredients. You probably don't. You're not too disappointed though, because that means you have something you have to do. So you drive the less than a mile drive through no stoplights to the Wal-Mart and grab everything you need (on gift cards still). Glance at the Red Box and pick one out, say Dear John. You should watch a movie tonight.

Go home and apply to 3 more jobs. Keep in mind, it's 3:00 PM and you haven't heard much from the companies that you've applied to. You thought this would be the day. It's a let down since you got an interview last week. Well, finish up those applications and then start cooking dinner, say cranberry chicken with corn on the cob. You should drink A&W Root Beer from the frozen mug. You deserve it for all of the hard work that seemingly no one notices. Very delicious dinner, especially the corn. Good ole Land of Lincoln. The company is the greatest too. Thank goodness we're going through this together. It's fun to laugh and joke about the small things that we love now. You may think we're living the life, and we are living well, but it's a lot different than what we're used to.

Clean up the kitchen. Clean the counter tops, sweep the floor, and wash the larger dishes that can't be cleaned in the dishwasher (curse those dishes!). Now, it's finally time to watch the movie, Green Zone. Sit in the recliner or on the couch that reminds you of home. It's over, not bad but not great. It's 10:00 and you're already tired. Where did your college stamina go? The fun in college used to start much later. Read the Bible before you go to sleep, the book of Joshua. Read about the allottment of land for the Israelites in the Promised Land. Zzzzzz, you're already asleep.


Go to sleep. Remember, set the alarm to an artist you like.

We love you all and miss you!