Back to real life

My big accomplishments yesterday were sweeping the kitchen floor and getting through all the posts on my Reader. Really. I was really exhausted. There is something wrong when traveling home from vacation makes you more tired than when you left.

Today though I need to make myself get into the swing of things. I have to finish piecing Andrew's quilt. I really, really, do. I also have to do real work like prepare for my courses in the fall. The living room carpets desperately need to be shampooed, but I might just pay Gary to do that. He loves to clean -- or perhaps he just cleans compulsively. Either way, he will do it.

Still, I must work. Time to get up and go.

By the way, Andrew did not get the job at the grocery store. He has not got any job at all. It is really difficult for him to put himself out there. I know, we all have to do it, but I know he isn't lazy, just anxious. He is also a terrible liar. That is mostly a good thing, but when people tell him what his future plans are he tells them that he is leaving in the middle of September to go to college. It does not help. I have sent him to the temp agencies hoping they can find something for him. I don't know what will happen though.

Though I have told him that if he doesn't get a job he won't have any spending money I have promised him that I will make sure he has enough money to do his laundry without having to steal from fountains. I wish I had the ability to give him his first job. None of his friends have been able to find jobs either this summer. I don't know if they are all that bad at looking for them or if jobs are really that difficult to come by.