What am I doing with my life?

How exciting! I got my own blog! I’m patting myself on the back for this little achievement. The truth is that I have blogged before for the media and social media in the places I’ve worked, but I didn’t have my own. It was kind of hard understanding the process of setting it up and creating it, but here I go, step by step, no rush.

I called it “Todo Vanezuela” (Everything Vanezuela) because I wish to write about anything that crosses my mind; also, I want to experience that feeling of relief that comes out of putting your thoughts, feelings, and emotions into paper, (well in this case on the Internet), that many magazine’s articles talk about. About Vanezuela, it is a nickname that has been with me for some years now, and it tells a few things about me in one word: name, sex and nationality.

Okay, let’s talk business… What am I doing with my life now?

At the moment, I am semi-unemployed, let me explain: I quit my full-time job and now I work as a freelancer, every now and then during the week or the weekends. For three years, I busted my butt doing two jobs in radio and news for two different places. Very often, I had double shifts during the week and some hours during the weekends, I used to have one day off, some weeks none. Now, I only work when I am needed.

I can’t deny that I love the fact that I can go to bed late at night, wake up whenever I want, no alarms, no early morning and not leaving everything ready the night before. I feel healthier for sleeping in more, I am like a happier person.

As any unemployed individual, I am looking for a job. Everyday, I spend a couple of hours searching on indeed.com or linkedin.com. I have submitted several applications, and I have had many interviews. Now, I am just waiting to see if I get called, but I keep my search on.

I am working out more often. Before I was going to the box only three times a week, now I am working out four times a week. Yes, I know it is not a HUGE change, but Crossfit is tiring and hard man. I switched from going to the afternoon/night classes to the morning classes, so that’s a real change, I get that out of the way early on the day.

Now that I have so much time in my hands, I feel like I have no time because of my new habit. This habit is consuming the rest of my hours, days, my phone’s battery… I got Netflix. I can’t believe how addictive it is, it is like a disease. So far I have watched: Narcos, Gomorra, Suburra, The Crown, Black Mirror, Dave Chapelle, Kevin Hart, Lady Gaga’s and Residente’s documentary, Crossfit Games, The Office, I’m still watching House of Cards and, a couple of days ago, I started to watch Casa de Papel.

One of the downsides of not having a full-time job is that you start eating more. I spend more time at home, I get hungry more often and, I keep running back and forth between the living room and my fridge to see what else I can eat. Maybe it is anxiety, stress, boredom, but I gotta stop it somehow.

I am having more quality time with my family, and I am loving it. I have more time for Davide, more energy to do things together and, I am in a better mood. I am spending more time with the rest of my family, talking crap for hours, remembering childhood memories and Venezuela during its good days, speaking in our own slang without getting weird looks, laughing at our jokes… being ourselves.

Besides all that, I am reading the Bible more often, I am still on the Old Testament. I have read books in the Bible that I never read with so much detail. Judge’s book stroke me the most, I almost pulled out my hair because of Israel’s stubbornness; however, we are all stubborn in our own way. Currently, I am on the first book of Samuel.

This is it from my end, I’ll try to keep you posted.