Ok, so while I told myself at the beginning of the year that I need to add this back into my regular routine, as you can clearly see that’s just not happening. The renewal for this domain is up in a few months and I’m really questioning as to whether or not the $30 would even be worth it at this point in time. I have no drive to do anything, I’d love to bring in some extra cash but I’m so out of the loop on things that it would be a learning curve to start from scratch again. I blame work, honestly. I learn so many new things throughout the day and as anyone would know – when you learn something new, you forget something old. The thing that kills me is that with two laptops, plus the Droid well equipped with the WordPress app, I still have no ability to physically sit down and do something. Hell, right now it’s about 12:30 and I know for a fact I should just be in bed.

As far as life is concerned, things are going really well. I bought a new car during my weekend Valentines day getaway with Sean (05 Chevy Equinox that I’m absolutely in love with), I’ve taken on another region at work that has pretty much doubled my daily inventory and now gave me about 42 people to manage, or micro manage as the company would prefer. It takes its toll on my brain, especially when there are so many different insurance companies involved and cycle times for both the files and the appraisers are through the roof. Needless to say, if you ever work for an appraisal company – make sure they hire someone who’s capable of actually completing a file within 2 days or don’t even bother giving them a second glance. My daily job is to babysit grown men, and while that sounds a little odd, it’s really what the case is. Needless to say, it’s an interesting position.

The alternate job search has had some good leads, but I think I’m so comfortable with where I am (considering I’m knocking on three years), I really don’t know what else I could do with myself. If it weren’t for my lack of ability to be able to focus on learning the estimates I’d get myself an adjusters license. For someone living in NY if I were to work for just about any insurance company I could bring in anywhere from $40 to $65 an hour. The work involved, however, would more than likely kill me so lets keep that on the back burner. For now, however, I’ll stick with what I know and what I’m comfortable with.

I had a relatively busy day, I woke up early (as usual) and got some shopping done. I bought a new dresser for the bedroom, I picked up two new rugs for outside so that my gazebo can come to life again. I’m overloaded on seeds and pots, I just need to pick up a couple of 50lb bags of soil and I should be good to go. I went out to dinner with Sean and my sister – I’ve been craving Bertucci’s for about three weeks and was finally able to get into it so I could enjoy it’s delicious culinary offerings. When all of that was said and done I sat down and booked my hotel room for April 8th-April 10th as Sean and I are going away on a mini-vacation down to Jersey to visit family. It’s good to get away every once and a while, plus having a working vehicle helps out alot too. Sean still has his Baretta, I downright refuse to be in it, let alone drive it. My personal opinion is it would pay good for scrap metal, his personal opinion is “but that’s my car yo, wtf?”, we obviously have a difference in opinion here haha.

So in a nutshell, that’s been my life for the past few months. Working like a dog, have a new toy to drive around, taking a mini-vacation one weekend per month just to get away and working so I can spend the bulk of my summer outside. I’m going to cut out vacations for two months or so after this only because there’s a very dreamy table/chairs set from Home Depot that I’m itching to pick up but my expensive tastes have me looking to spend about $700. Sean needs a new laptop so skimping and saving after we get back is first priority.

Maybe I will need to get back into the sponsored posts afterall. Before things went all bonkers with the google page rank stuff I was able to bring in about $3500 a month, that’d solve a lot of problems right now.