Four day weekend

Yep, I'm bored. SUPER bored.

My district had a "Bad Weather Make-Up Day" on Friday, so I am actually getting a four day weekend. I was excited about this, however, everything that could've possibly come up... well... has.

Bobby has gone back to work, so he won't have another day off until Monday. I had flute choir performances on Friday evening and Saturday morning. My parents are at their new house out-of-state, so I can't go visit them. We were supposed to have a couple of our friends come stay with us this evening, but they weren't feeling well and canceled. We were also planning to meet up with another family of 3+1, but the soon-to-be-mommy-again is getting together with HER mommy to put the new baby's crib together (a monumental event that I would not dare mess with).

So, I'm home alone and bored.

You'd think, since I'm an only child, I would be able to keep myself occupied. No. Not so much. I like socializing and doing things, and I don't really like to be alone very much anymore. Kid-only-child-ness was loads of fun... I could play whatever I wanted, and there was no one to fight with (or share with, which kinda sucked), and nobody made fun of me if I did or said something dumb. Now, grown-up-only-child-ness is mainly me cleaning the house and hanging stuff on the wall. Sure, I play with the dogs quite a bit, but then they start getting that crazy look in their eyes and that's when I know they've had enough.

I typically would go window shop at the mall or something, but we're trying to cut down our debt (which isn't THAT high....yet) so we've removed credit cards from our lives and are attempting to pay them down before we use them again. I did the math with our incomes, bills, and credit cards, and if we could get rid of our cards (i.e. only use them every now and then OR get to where we can pay them off every month like we could a year ago) we would have a couple THOUSAND dollars left over every month (I know that sounds ridiculous, but the numbers don't lie). That's a pretty big chunk of change that we're not in the least bit getting to enjoy. So now you see why I can't go shopping...yet...

I am thinking about getting a summer job to help catch up to that "extra money" a little faster. I may be going back to TRH and "waitressing" again. It would only be for about 3 months, and you get to basically manage your income directly...the harder you work/better you serve your tables, the more money you make (in theory), and you can easily set goals and manage the cash up front, rather than getting one solid, unchanging paycheck twice a month. I'll still get my teaching pay, but a little extra money on the side never hurt anyone. Besides, having another job will do away with these boring weekends alone. The problem is... how likely am I to get hired in JUNE now that all of the college kids have taken over?

Now that I've let you in on my predicament, I'm gonna go back to pondering what to do for the rest of the day. Here's hoping I think of something. :-/