Concert

Last night my friend and I went to an awesome concert: Keith Urban with Sugarland. And in order to satisfy you music snobs out there, we left halfway through Keith Urban. He was too loud. And all his songs sound alike. And my friend was getting a headache from the bass.

However, Sugarland rocked the house. And Jennifer Nettles (the singer) will blow your head off with her talent. That woman can sing.

But they sang a song that I'd forgotten about: "Gotta Be Something More." I used to belt it out on my way to work. Which I haven't done in awhile because I haven't exactly been commuting recently.

But during the song while my friend and I were dancing and being generally joyful and happy, the words hit home again. And I realized that now I get to find something more. So while I would love to have any job, I hope that when I finally find something it won't just be another paycheck. And that it will give me time to find something more to do with my life than simply breathing in exhaust and staring at a computer screen.

Don't Worry, the Government's Here

I'm sorry it's been so long since my last post, but I have a decent excuse: crazy and insane sunburn.

See, last weekend I went tubing and even though I put lots of sunscreen on my pasty body, I got horribly sunburned and I think even got some sun poisoning. Good times.

But I love tubing. It's so fun and relaxing. And we even got to jump into the river off a rock. I blame my mountain upbringing for my love of swimming in rivers. I just wish there had been a rope swing. I love rope swings. Bust that's a relatively small complaint in the big picture of floating down a river with a bottle of wine and nothing to do but try to avoid the rocks.

But onto the title of this post: the incident of the school bus.

In order to get the multitudes of people who want to get on the river when it's nine hundred thousand degrees outside, Butt's Tubes uses school buses. And our bus driver got all hung up on a guardrail. It was marginally hilarious. Especially when the park ranger who was hanging around the put-in spot pulled out a sledgehammer to try to get the bus off the guardrail. And as he walked up to the bus with it he yelled: "Don't worry folks, the Government's here!" Hilarious.

But the bus got off the guardrail and we got in the river. And if the whole back of my body hadn't gotten sunburned, it would have been a perfect day.

Grocery Store Adventure

One of the things about being unemployed is that you have the time and patience to experiment and do things that you wouldn't do while you were employed. One of the things I wanted to do because it looked fun was self-scanning at the grocery store. And yesterday I finally got to do it.

This sounds boring to all you employed people out there, but for an hour yesterday I had a grand old time. It was very amusing. And I love how it totals up for you. No guessing. And since I hadn't been to the grocery store in weeks, it was a big total. But it also let me know that I could afford some shrimp to make shrimp kabobs for supper tonight.

Unemployment has made me feel much more patient with stuff like that. So yay. Because I might not hate people any more.

The Pool

So I have this friend and she has an old boss who has a pool in his backyard. And since he was out of town this weekend, she invited me over to hang out at the pool. It was 90 (bazillion) degrees yesterday, so I said "yup."

I love the pool (when I manage to keep the sunscreen on). You get really hot while reading a good book and then dive into cool water and splash around. And the best part is that I got to do that with one of my good friends that I haven't seen in awhile. And we got to update each other on everything in our lives. But since it's approximately 100 (bazillion) degrees today, I wrote a little limerick:

Oh the pool,

How deep and cool,

I left thee

Beneath the tree

Now I feel a fool.

Also, I didn't get sunburned. So huzzah!

Adventure!

I went for an adventure this weekend with my brother, his wife and their dog. And it was so much fun. We canoed, drank wine while sitting in the river and hung out with some of their friends. Which was pretty awesome. And just what the doctor ordered.

There's nothing that will make you feel more relaxed in life than floating down a river on a sunny day. Whether you're in a canoe or a tube or, even, on your back. And the best part is that I don't have to take all this relaxation and channel it into a job that I hate. Instead, I'm channeling it into cooking some delicious food for supper and writing this post and hitting the search engines for a job. Unemployment is kind of neat in that way.

And since I don't have permission to post pictures of the humans on the trip, I'll post a picture of the cute dog on the trip:

Isn't she cute in her PFD?