My Life as it is Now

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Geez, I feel like there is a huge weight on my chest. This past week we have continued to move and put our place back together, or at least trying to. We are closer than we were last time I blogged but I would give it another while before we have everything really good. But we have got our office/game room more put together and there is even a path to our guinea pig cage now.

We have also been working on finishing up the last part of our machining class. Job seeking skills. Which is harder then I had hoped it would be. We have found some good job leads in the process and have our instructor who is willing to vouch for us, but it is still a daunting task to find job in a trade I didn't know existed a year ago. I am having trouble writing a cover letter, partially because I don't know how necessary it is for our particular field. But I am hoping I can still write a relatively good cover letter despite having little experience in the field and not that many qualifications behind me.

But the thing that is weighing on my the most I think is our current job. It is still soul sucking, but now on top of just trying to do my job and not become depressed, we are trying to put a home together and finish up a class that actually requires attention. Part of the reason our apartment isn't more together is because we are so drained from our job when we get home that we don't want to do anything. And with finishing our class we either have to do it at work, which is a balancing act that is only frustrating and even more draining than just doing the job, or we have to do it at home where we still need to put everything together and also never want to do anything partially as a result of this job.

So that is a quick update about my oncoming panic attack. I am also sorry we didn't stream this Wednesday we got distracted trying to recover from working, while also adjusting to a new schedule. Oh that is probably also something that is adding to the weight. Well I feel that is enough for me for right now, I am going to go try and take a deep breath and calm down, so until next time:

Stay Cool!

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