Take some time to decompress. When you're ready, we'll get your resume and cover up to speed. No worries.

Schedule the down time.

I don't know what your usual schedule is - -but I can say that friday and Saturday - bad days to look at craig's list.

Do those one or two things that niggle in the back of you mind ( go to the gym more often , clean out that closet, explore new ways to cook) Things that you will not be able to do when you go back to work - but will be things that are taking care of your self and positive.

Start tellng yourself stories- so when you you walk into an interiew you have answers to those questions - when did have a coflict with a co-worker and how did you solve it? how did you deal with a difficult client? what do like about working with a team? what is the worst thing about you last job....

and when you decide on down time - Say - I need an hour at least , but I might need more...in an hour I will decide...

But mostly I am glad to hear that the worst of the anxiety has passed.

Beth gives great advice.

I actually have 3 lists going (the theory being that I will do at least one thing from each one every day): (1) shit to get myself employed; (2) shit that needs finished for the wedding; (3) adequate self-care.

I am coming up woefully short on the list for #3. Partly because "walking the dog/going to the gym/doing yoga" is on my list of non-negotiable stuff, like brushing and flossing. [Edit: what I mean by "self-care," I guess, is more than baseline stuff of eating fruits and veggies and personal hygiene, etc. Stuff like...go read a book on the front porch. Or go to the neighborhood pool for a couple of hours, since it is summer.] But I am lousy at self-care, because my jerkbrain tells me that it's self-indulgent bullshit that I don't deserve.

I totally have to clean out my closet and dressers, though. And -- holy crap -- the bookshelves. (I also have a list of stuff that needs to be cleaned, which is basically the whole house. Stupid baseboards. How do they get so dirty? I don't mean dust; I mean actual filth. I am looking at you, Kato.)

Hah--whereas my first thought was "don't do too good a job on those to-do lists lest he get liking the idea of a stay-at-home wife!"

"don't do too good a job on those to-do lists lest he get liking the idea of a stay-at-home wife!"

If we could live on just his salary, I would not be in a hurry to get a job. Totally true.

Ah... but new cooking ideas - can also take care of Tim. ditto dust reduction and stuff reduction hair and wardrobe are job hunting stuff

now back to mememememe

Today is my morning off. Usally i go to the coffee shop, grocery store do a little scrubbing somewhere. Today I am hanging with the elctricain. which meant getting dressed fo r work early - I can't really clean becaus e - work clothes. so all I can do is poke at the computer , read or watch tv. Please some one tell my brain not complain. I don't care that there are drill noises , radios and singing comming from the garage. Really, it isn't a horrible way to spend the morning

Man, Suzi, I don't know how I'd deal with that if I were you.

Coming in late on this, but I would also be one of those people going nuclear if someone did this to me and one of my kids. In fact, I kind of want to send Kbug a WTF email (I won't, of course, but I kind of want to)

What Lee said.

Thirding what Lee said. Suzi, that is just insane.

Teppy, I hope your severance pay is good enough to put your mind at ease for a while.