Current internal debate:

Is working 6 days a week, but less hrs/day more or less exhausting than cramming the same amount of work into 5 days.

I'm really thinking about retracting my weekend availability at the coffeeshop to only be T, Th, Fr with absolutely no weekends..

Either way I'll have to work both places. It's just a matter of what days and what effect that would have on my overall attitude and exhaustion level.

I'm leaning on the side of having full weekends back. I like weekdays at the coffeeshop, I want to kill people during the weekend because I already don't want to be there, let alone putting up with their high maintenance bs, the inevitable supply shortages. And when it comes down to it, 1 day off a week is not enough to accomplish much of anything.....

My mind just might be made up.....

Meet a new Pampered Chef consultant!

That's right, ME!

After careful deliberation, I have decided to enter the world of being a Pampered Chef Consultant! It's kind of scary but I figure if it doesn't work out, I'll at least be able to stock up on discounted quality kitchen gadgets! I'm coveting a nice set of steak knives, a knife block and some new teflon cookware.....

I just really want to get off of unemployment. I don't like reading the news and hearing yet another congressman calling for the end of benefit extensions. I hate knowing that I'm completely dependent on our dear old government. I hate reading congressmen encouraging the stigma that unemployed workers don't want to go back. I'm just tired of it all. I'm a fairly independent person and to be this dependent bugs me.

While I don't believe the consultant business will completely wean me off the government cheese, I think it may be a step in the right direction towards controlling my own destiny. And if it gives me sales experience, time management improvement and the confidence I so need, I will only benefit from it when I try to find other work too.

My next steps involve finding potential hosts, signing my contract and just starting the admin stuff for this... Scary... exciting... happy.... Scary (Yes I know I said that about 3 times in this article but it's definitely a step in a different direction!)