Adventures in job hunting and budget eating

Well now that I'm home from Guatemala, I have no money, and no job.  But I still need to eat.  And since DC kindly puts a 1 week waiting period on unemployment, I've been having an interesting time.

I'm also spending inordinate amounts of time hanging out in my pajamas playing around on the internet.  The luxury of having a laptop is spoiling me.  And since I was semi out of touch for six weeks, I'm at least a month behind on any website I've ever heard of.  Not the best situation for finding work or even leaving the house.

So this is my attempt to be accountable to something for getting shit done.  And a place to put info about all the cheap recipies I've been finding.

Yesterday I volunteered for Earth Day, which was fun and different.  I got to see some friends I hadn't caught up with and I got out of the house and only had to spend $2.50 on bus fare and $3 for a cab share.  I got free food at a happy hour (empanadas, veggies and cookies) and a free beer and gourmet whoopie pie at another happy hour.  Gourmet whoopie pies are like cupcakes cut in half and filled with whipped cream.  AMAZING. And I made a few contacts, which might be useful in the job search.

Then today I did very little.

But I just had dinner for very little money:
rice (from cheap bulk bins at Yes)
ham (spent $5 on it at safeway, have used it in 5 meals so far)
mustard greens ($1 packet from cabinet, originally from Indian grocery)
Dal($1 packet orgininally from indian grocery)

This morning I had oatmeal (bulk from Yes), with raisins (leftover)

Later I'll have more mustard greens and rice and probably popcorn (bulk from Yes).

Now I'm going to make cobbler with an old can of peaches.

Tomorrow's money saving goals:
Go to bank with loan check (Thanks Mom!)
Gather spare change and hit up coinstar
If enough money in spare change jar, buy flour (reg and whole wheat), eggs, milk, canned tomatoes, dried beans and apples/bananas (Giant)
Also check out target for frozen veggies (bird's eye steamfresh).

Tonight's job goals:
Apply for 4 only semi interesting jobs.
Get a good draft of my resume together to send to the 2 actually interesting jobs.
Email the draft resume around for comment
Send emails to my references, reminding them that people will be calling to hear how wonderful I am.