bad week

I have been doing extremely bad with my money this week.  And my hours at work got a huge cut, so I should be watching what I spend, but I just haven't been.  Sometimes I think I use shopping to make me feel better.  I justify it to myself that I am not buying worthless things.  I buy lots of stuff for crafts, stuff to better organize my room, stuff for others.  When I am not working I do not want to stay cooped up alone in the house so I go out to stores and buy things so that I have something to do.  Not the greatest plan, I am realizing.  There is great flaw in my logic, because working less means I shouldn't shop as much, but since I am not working I have more time to go out and shop.  Yeah, I am trying to reconcile these two facts.

But in some ways I do think that my hours getting cut is a kind of blessing because I have been meaning to try to find work elsewhere, and hopefully above min wage, but I didn't avidly look because I thought that I liked what I was doing.  And while I still like it, it does not help me professionally.  I really need some professional work experience to put on my resume to put me in a better position for a better paying job.  So this hour cut has given me the push in the butt I needed to vigilantly being my job search.  -- though I am very picky about my hours and where I want to work so I don't know how successful I will be in my job search.