From Bathrooms to Bushes, or, How To Poing: My Continual Battle with Tangents

I started out my day--around 6 am today--cleaning my bathroom. It was sorely in need of good scrubdown, and I was getting into it. Witness:
I don't often, but when I do, I get nuts about it. The toothbrush was to encourage the CLR to do its work around the faucet and the nasty little drain holes, as well as around the back of the sink. We have really*REALLY* hard water out here, and the gunk it leaves is amazing.

I digress. It's what I do, evidently.

It's 9:43a.m. right now, and the bathroom still looks exactly like that. I do, however, have another photo to show you:
This is the massive trimmings from the honeysuckle bush between us and the neighbours' drive. It hasn't been sitting there for days. Oh no! I just trimmed, pulled, and broke it off that massive, nasty bush.

How, you might ask, did I go from scrubbing down the bathroom, to wildly hacking at a honeysuckle bush? The steps aren't few, but they're relatively easy to follow:

1. Scrubbing down the bathroom, including the use of CLR, which has to sit for a bit on whatever it is you're hoping it will de-calcify.

2. Take a "break" to allow CLR to do its work.

3. Wash hands at kitchen sink and decide that I should finish the dishes so I can run the dishwasher before 9am (energy saving thing here in the desert).

4. Washing dishes generally means also clearing away whatever paper towels and other bits of trash that might by laying about.

5. While throwing the trash away, recall that it's Monday, and trash day--better take the big bin to the curb.

6. Get into the back yard with the trash, note that there is still a fair amount of space left in the bin, and toss in a few errant branches and pick a few more weeds.

7. Haul the now mostly full bin to the curb, walking by the weeping honeysuckle bush.

8. Note to self that those branches that are sticking out really need to be trimmed. The bin still has room, and it would only take a moment.

9. Oh look! Weeds by the driveway out front as well! Spend a few minutes pulling weeds in the front yard--toss them in the increasingly full bin.

10. Walk *back* by the honeysuckle bush and recall that the branches need trimming.

11. Jog to the back yard for the loppers--too much for the job, but they are handy.

12. Proceed to lop off the offending branches and think to self..."Hm, those dead branches really need clearing out. Might as well do it while I'm here."

13. With each dead branch pulled out, 6 more reveal themselves as candidates for extraction.

14. Periodically jam a handful of branches in the brimming trash bin and think "I really should stop now..."

15. Keep hacking away

16. Realise that the pile of brush I've created is now going to fill the bin full *again* after the men have come to empty it today.

17. Use that, as well as the fact that the sun is starting to get in my eyes, as an excuse to wrap it up. For now.

After all, I've got a bathroom to clean...

Best Laid Plans?

So yeah. I've stuttered and stumbled and again fallen off the blogwagon. I was talking to a friend of mine the other day who asked if I'd given up on it. I hadn't really thought about it, but my immediate answer was "No, I just don't feel as though I have anything to write about."

Being unemployed, there is no ridiculous co-worker drama to discuss. There is no "corporate bigwigs are idiots" rant to be done. I don't have a surplus of cash, so I don't do a lot of shopping that doesn't involve chicken breasts, milk, eggs, assorted fruits and veggies. For the same reason, I haven't been on a lot of kick ass excursions. I have done a few really nice hikes, and worked at a Habitat For Humanity house, but for whatever reason I neglected to expound on the occasion.

I think, primarily, I've been a bit...down...about the whole job thing. I've actually started looking again, and, as per usual, I went into it with high hopes and a great self image. After being rejected and/or completely overlooked by everything I've applied for, I'm feeling quite shot down. I don't suppose most corporate managers can see their way to hiring a retail manager for a sit down admin job. Funny though, when I'd been a sit down admin for the past three years, retail had no problem snatching me up. Yes, I've bounced around a lot, and this is probably the major issue with my resume--3 years is the longest I've held a job in recent memory. Perhaps ever. I have a short attention span, I suppose. I get bored easily, or--more likely--disillusioned with my current situation. Or, I just move. At any rate, I'm sure many employers balk at the "dates held" section of my resume.

Anyway anyway, I didn't intend for this to be come a diatribe on my lack of gainful employment. I just wanted to say hi, and that no, I haven't given up on this. Really.