Yay!

A small victory, my first blog post from my new home :)  Sadly, it's only taken me four months of living here before I caved and got the internet.   I liked being forced to go out to Starbucks and blog, but I believe I will be saving much more money this way.  I don't like the idea of paying $50 a month for internet, but it's easier to see than $50+ a month on lattes.  I really need to curb that bad habit, I really can't afford it on my budget.  Hopefully that will change in the near future. I've actually updated my resume and I'm going to finally start applying to everywhere I can think of that might possibly be hiring for full time people.
I need a much better paying job, especially one that offers some sort of health benefits.  I figure if I start applying now, I will have a new job by the summer, no problem.  As long as I get something before October so I can easily get a place in the west end once more and not live in the crack neighborhood (j/k, Richmonders don't do crack, they do heroin and drink---heavily).
Anyways, that is the plan for this year: move back to my side of town.  It's more important I do it now than it was before, mostly because my friend who convinced me to move here is now being forced to move back in with her folks in Tennessee.  Her job decided to cut her position and she's now all unemployed.
She made the comment that makes me cringe: "If unemployment paid better, I'd be on it for longer."   Really?  THAT'S WHY WE DON'T HAVE PEOPLE ACTIVELY SEEKING JOBS!  Not that there aren't any jobs available, it's just that the unemployment pays better than the jobs that we have tons of do!  Who wants to work at McDonalds and earn about 1200$/month when they can earn about that if they had a better paying job, got laid off and now are earning 1400 or so a month in unemployment?  Where's the drive to get a job?  Seriously, either raise the amount of pay for food service jobs or lower the amount of unemployment money you give out.  Raise the rate of pay or lower the amount of aid...either way, you'd see a dramatic boost in employment and one way will get us out of debt just as fast as the other one would, which is way faster than what we're doing now.  Or do both and speed up the process, I don't care.   A free handout just keeps people lazy and fat and unmotivated to change their situation.   It may have been fine in the past, but it's not fine now.  /rant
And now on to something completely different: I'm leaving facebook.  I will be there til they make it mandatory to use the timeline.  I've already made it impossible to find me, you can't tag me in anything, you can't search or add me if you aren't already friends with me, you can't check me in anywhere, I've disabled all the apps.  So if you want to keep up with me, pm me and I'll add you on FB or something, but I don't feel up to keeping up with having to change the security features every time there is an update.   It's a bit ridiculous really and frankly, I don't have the time to worry about it.  If I don't have a FB, I won't have anything for future employers to use against me in the hiring process. I'm going to save all my pictures and then I'm out.