Thanks, morethingswrong, for the "welcome back" and saying that I sound better.

Once I was getting used to the idea of losing my job, then BAM! Here comes to possibility of not only being home alone all day while job hunting/drawing unemployment/searching for more clients for my sideline biz, now I'm facing the possibility of being home alone ALL THE TIME with the kid gone.

When I was working from home before I got this job, there were plenty of days when, if not for seeing my son when he got home from school in the late afternoon, I would have gone entire days without speaking to another human being.

As it is now, the only human touch I feel for days (and even weeks at some points) is his. And usually it's just a hug without any skin touching and I end up with ZERO human touch.

For now, he is still living at home. He hopes to be gone sometime in December.

I would say that I'm trying to enjoy having him home for now, but at this point I see him maybe 5 or 10 minutes per day if I'm lucky. He's always with the girlfriend or at work.

Plus I'm so stressed out that I have an upset stomach and end up running to the bathroom many times each day, so it's hard to concentrate on other projects. But I am still working on trying to get more clients. Nothing huge has happened yet.