Been away

Well, I've been away for a while.  This has been due to the new strain of flu that's been going around.  Let's see....as of now I've had the flu for 6 days...I've still to put up with it for another 6-8 according to the doctor.  The frustrating part about it all is that this is the first year I've gotten sick after not receiving a vaccination (which I've never gone to get one, at least not a flu vaccine).  Moreover, this is the first year that I had an appointment scheduled to receive a vaccination and something came up - I can't for the life of me remember what it was - and I had to cancel.  I forgot to reschedule my appointment.  With my track record on getting sick, or lack there of, I was not too worried about it.  Clearly, my nonchalant attitude was a mistake.

Because of this virus, I have missed 2 school orientations, I've put off making many phone calls that should have been done about a week ago seeing as my voice comes and goes, and I've been living on my family's couch because if I lay down, the prospect of breathing goes away.  All in all, I feel like I've been hit by a truck, I have a thick and fuzzy piece of fabric stuck down my throat, and I have an elephant sitting on my chest.

As of this morning, my voice has returned and feels as though it will stay put.  I called my school bookstore to take care of a few questions I had and ordered my books.  I am glad that I have that piece of the returning to school puzzle over with even though it put me back about $600.  Now, $600 isn't a whole lot on the grand scheme of things, but at the moment I have $700 to my name and am still between jobs, so the grip on what's left in my bank account has gotten considerably tighter since I clicked the 'complete order' button a few hours ago.

With my voice back, I feel comfortable continuing to apply for jobs again, which I will promptly start to do as soon as the website I am using for such matters is done being under construction.  For everyone wanting CNAs, I'm having quite a time finding someone who wants me to fill a CNA position.  I suppose I was naive to think that I'd find a job quickly.

Between job searching, I've been working on catching up with my reading.  I realized that I left my book at my boyfriend's house, so I picked up another from my shelf: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.  I must say, I am pleasantly surprised to find the reading of this one much easier than I remember my last attempt at Jane Austen to be.  I'm not certain if it was the story, the mood I was in, or the age at which I tried to read a novel of her's last, but I am quite certain that I am enjoying Mansfield Park and wish my fatigued body could focus on reading longer than it's allowing me to at the moment.

I predict that I will have something to say on the matter of Mansfield Park once I get a little bit further into the story and will probably post something.  Until then, off I go to job hunt among other things to try to keep myself busy during my quarantine