I'm bored

Both kids have been in school full days since 2004, but up until now I haven't been bored. I filled my time with exercise, errands, and putzing around on the computer. When there was therapy, that took up a four-hour chunk of day between commuting on the el, the appointment, and lunch with hubby. I had temple Sisterhood and Girl Scout things to deal with, and of course micromanaging the boy's life. I felt almost no desire to work.

This year, the school days are longer and emptier. I find myself sitting like a blancmange in front of this screen much of the day (this is the thing I criticize my son for most often) and I feel myself shriveling like a raisin. When I was in my temple-lady days I was crazy for myriad reasons but I was blooming like a flower, not shriveling.

There are few jobs out there, fewer still in the area I trained in (journalism), but I need to do something. Money would be nice too. I'm strongly considering getting into Shaklee. I know, its kind of embarrassing. Its a little cultish. But its something to do, and I would be mentored and trained and I would set my own hours.

I'd have to deal with rejection, which nobody likes but I am violently allergic to. But I think that I could handle rejection of a product without taking it personally. Here's a little mission statement I came up with in my head:

People are more important than things
Friends are more precious than money
I'm sharing this in the spirit of promoting good health
but don't ever be afraid I'll be offended by hearing "no thanks."

Or something like that.