A Personal Renaissance

As of today, there are 36 days left until we depart for the sunny land down under. Our tickets our purchased, our temporary housing is almost arranged and I'm still unemployed! I returned from Florida on Saturday feeling energized about our starting our new life, but at the same time feeling a failure for not having not a single one of my plans work out since, oh say, the end of July.

Upon returning from El Salvador I thought I had found a great job that would keep me employed until our return to Austrlaia, only it turned out to be too good to be true. Now that I switched to a temp agency that always seems to be "briming with opportunities" because they've "been really busy lately", but when it comes down to finding ME work it's a completely different story. I'm basically unemployed and have put a severe dent in our saving plan.

Mid-September I signed up for a personal chef certification course that I was quite excited about, as I had planned on starting my own personal chef business upon arriving in Australia. That was cancelled, which left me quite crushed. A satellite office of my temp agency found me no work down in Florida either. No work, no class.

On the brighter side of things, I spent a fabulous week with my mother in Florida, enjoyed the warm weather and I'm MOVING TO AUSTRALIA! Oh, and I won $20 on a scratch ticket.