M.I.A. for quite a few months...

As many of you know I have been unemployed for quite some time. More specifically I've been unemployed for almost a grand total of 99 weeks. Which is roughly, or close to, 1 1/2 years. I say 99 weeks cause that's exactly how much time is allotted to someone on unemployment. There are exactly 99 weeks to collect. I've collected 95. Which means time has been running short. Due to this, I've been looking regularly for a job in just about anything and everything for a good 6 months. And as each month ended and I got closer to no money, I looked more often and harder. I slowly lessened my grip on my little fantasy world and started to grasp reality. At about that time I started to feel less confident and feel an overall change going on. Never having motivation or a real goal, AND being paid regularly for it was, to say the least, hindering in my capacity to grow as a human bean (yes bean, cause being sounds the same as bean and I can only be serious for so long).
At that time I stopped going swing dancing. Sure I danced a little bit, went once or twice on Thursdays. It becomes very difficult looking for a job and not getting ANY responses at all on resumes and applications. So needless to say, my confidence has been very low, hence the lack of dancing. Stress has been an all time high, and for those of you who know me, I've never really completely dealt with stress. It's all been a new experience.
Luckily I've got an amazing woman in my corner rooting me on and helping through it all. It's been a bit of a struggle here and there. But with the support of my girlfriend, family and a small group of close friends, I've gotten the advice and confidence to keep moving forward.
So now I'm pleased to announce that I have 2 jobs, one for sure that I start on Tuesday. Both in the game industry. With the two jobs my time becomes even more limited. But I'm sure I'll be seeing a lot of you fiends (fiends, not friends) soon as I would like to have some kind of a party, PLUS my annual bon fire is coming up soon as well.
On a side note, my sister's wedding invitations came out fantastic, and my neck isn't hurting so much as it was before. I'm almost through the woods on this one people. Almost there.