Another Update
 
I'm not sure how much I'll update this summer. (I know that's a shocker; I barely update as it is.) I have a decent reason, however. I don't have an Internet connection on my laptop. Nate is using the router for his work and home computers. We could rig it up so that I could have a connection, but I don't really want it. I'm getting a lot done this summer and I know it's because I don't have the siren song of the Internet calling out to me. I can waste hours on that damn thing, still, after years of working online.
 
So what am I doing? I don't want to go into too much detail because the last time I kept track of my writing progress on the site, I didn't write for two or three months. Life got very crazy, it's true, but I'm a superstitious person by nature. I'm getting a lot done, let's just leave it at that. Much more than I had dared to hope.
 
In other news, I applied for two jobs today. Jobs I'm actually interested in. I also got turned down for unemployment. Some states offer unemployment benefits if you leave your job because of your spouse's relocation, but not all of them. So far, it doesn't appear that Illinois is one of those states. The denial letter said something along the lines of the employer not having any control over my spouse's relocation. Well, duh. Neither did I, which is why I had to quit. I suppose I could have exerted my wifely will over my husband's decision, but the job seemed like a good deal, so here we are. I'm appealing the decision, but if I don't get any benefits, well, I don't get them. I'm still having a good summer.
 
I suppose I can afford to be a little blasé about not having any money or a job because luckily, my husband has both. And we have the good fortune of living in a great house for a few months rent free (all we have to pay are utilities), courtesy of Nate's very generous Aunt Jay. So I'm still in the applying-for-jobs-I-would-like-to-have phase. We are not yet in the must-eat-must-have-paycheck round of job searching.
 
Speaking of the house, you should check out Nate's site. He has a pretty nifty gallery of our new digs.