Unemployment can take its toll on you.  Don’t get me wrong—the first week or so of sleeping in and watching trash tv is great! But it gets old real quick.  I needed something to do.  So, I decided to do all those things people talk about doing if they had the time:  visit family, yard work, projects around the house, and hit the gym.  Keeping myself busy was definitely a step in the right direction, but I was still unsatisfied. There had to be something else I could do with all this spare time.  And then, with a little (more like a LOTtle–HA! See what I did there?) encouragement (definitely NOT nagging) from a friend, I decided to get out and volunteer my time to some organizations that could use it. And oh yea– I’m “blogging” about my experience. Feel free to read about my week-long volunteer happenings.