So being unemployed isn’t all that bad, yet.  I had my HR meeting on Friday and found out that I’ve got three months of severance.  So right now I’m on payroll for two more months, I’m still accruing vacation, sick and sales bonuses.   Come the last pay check for me in December I’ll be paid out for sick and vacay.   Then my severance kicks in and I’ll be able to apply for unemployment, which I’ll bank because I still have a healthy twelve weeks of severance coming in.   The first thing I’ve got to concentrate on is finding some sort of affordable health insurance for the kids.  We’re looking into Mister’s job and I’m researching online, too.   So we’ll see what happens there.  My job is also offering two outplacement courses next week that I’m going to attend and take advantage of all they’re giving us.

So the nice side of being out of work is I don’t have to get up at 4:50 am to work out, now I can sleep til 6am and work out when the kids go to school.   I get to pick my kids up from school and help them with homework.  I’ve got more time with Mister, too.  As a matter of fact I told him Its a good thing you and I get along very well because we’re going to be spending A LOT of time together the next five months!  lol  I get to take care of errands and chores during the day while the kids are at school.  Monday Mister and I are driving up to Barstow to hit the Coach outlet for an incredible sale so I can pick up a couple of Christmas gifts.  I’ve yet to clean and organize the shit out of my house but that’ll come next week, when I don’t have to keep running back and forth to the office. 

It looks like I’m going to take advantage of this time off and work the stay at home mom thing for a bit.   God help me.   lol  This is the first time in almost fifteen years that I haven’t worked so its new territory for me.  Wish me luck!