A Family in Chaos

I was laid off in November 2009! It has been a long, strange 17 months! I was fortunate enough to have saved a TON of money over the past 7 or 8 years! Add in the money from unemployment, and the insurance Jen’s job provided, we really made it through fairly comfortably! HOWEVER, with unemployment coming to an end soon, and savings hitting a critical low, it had become imperative that something changed soon!

Jen & I have both been home pretty much then entire time, with all the drama with the baby! It has been both stressful and great at the same time! Anyway, i just wanted to bring everyone up to date, as I know a lot of you dont follow our family like the sitcom that we really are!

So all that being said here are the:
TOP 10 THINGS I WILL MISS FROM UNEMPLOYMENT!!

10 – MLB NETWORK! 24 hours of baseball programming! This has been particularly awesome with Preseason Baseball!

9 – The Dan Patrick Show! I’m gonna miss you Danny! Not really, I’m gonna DVR ya! This is a great show! Its 3 hours long, and Jen loved it to! We would sit in bed and drink our coffee and laugh! It beats the SHIT outta watching all the negativity on the morning shows or crappy news!

8 – Tosh.0 reruns! The absolute FUNNIEST SHOW on television! Be prepared to be shocked & offended! You gotta DVR it!

7 – Drinking beer/rum anytime of the day I wanted! That’s always great! And it makes watching Yo Gabba Gabba so much funnier!

6 – Weekly shower, shave, & toothbrushing sessions! How great was
that? It wasn’t necessary! I could just let the smell or the itch dictate my grooming habits!

5 – Spending ALL day in either my underwear or my bathrobe! This was great, too! I used to see Hugh Hefner and think, “who does that?” But I have seen the light! It’s awesome! I would try to get Jen to call me Hugh! I even tried to get her to get a friend come over, and let me be Charlie Sheen, and they could be the Goddesses! That never happened, but it woulda been great!

4 – Spending time with the kids was great too! We had a lot of fun! I know you all will be shocked, I’m pretty immature, and loved playing with them, and teaching them how to mix a Cap’n & Coke!

3 – Laughing with my wife! She has the greatest laugh! And the best sense of humor! Obviously, she has to have a great sense of humor to put up with my smart ass being home for 17 months!

2 – Morning ummmmm, well, flag flying! See my previous blogs if you don’t know what I’m talking about!

1 – Watching my wife fold clothes, vacuum, dust, etc… There is absolutely NOTHING sexier than a woman cleaning up after a man! I would take clothes out of the closet and throw them on the ground just so she would have things to wash and fold! She would yell at me, “you haven’t worn clothes in a week, how do you have dirty
clothes!” I would just shrug my shoulders and smile!

There you have it……sigh…..well, it’s time to start preparing myself to re-enter society! I hope I remember how to act!