So I just got off the phone with my brother...we will call him T. T recently started dating a new girl. At first it annoyed me...I am picky about who my little brother dates, he doesn't have the best dating track record, and I LOVED his last long term girlfriend, she was really a great girl. Also, this new girl is two years older than me...I didn't like that idea either. However, after talking with my brother about her, she seemed okay. When I got off the phone with him, I was thinking about her name...he couldn't remember her last name, just the first letter of it. He also said her first name was different so she went by an easier nickname. All of this sounded really familiar. She also had gone to my elementary school...
So I did some digging, literally. I went into the basement and started to dig through storage bins to find my elementary school yearbooks. I found them! And I found her...the new girl in my little bro's life. As it turns out...she and I were friends. We played on the same softball team, 20 years ago! How freaking funny is that?!
I had to call my brother back and give him this latest development. He thought it was hilarious. He is going to tell her about it tonight. It is just really a very small world...
Oh and I do now approve of him dating her. If she is anything like I remember her being 20 years ago, she is great. I hope that things work out between them.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
SNOW!!
The side of my car.
Me, pretending to shovel snow! ;-)
Lamp post, buried in snow from the plows.
Loser, once again...
I quit my job today, yep after only 2 days. It just wasn't for me...and I realize how irresponsible it is quitting a job with out another one lined up, but I was too unhappy to wait for something else. So, I am an unemployed loser, a stay at home lady friend once again...
I don't really feel anything about quitting...not sure what that means. After only 2 days, though, I don't think I really had any kind of attachment to the place. It really wasn't any one thing that drove me to quit. The people were nice enough, the work was meh...it was more the politics behind working in that type of industry...either that or working for a billion dollar company, sitting behind a desk maybe made me soft. That or the freedom to get up from my desk and move around at my own will maybe is just too appealing to me.
It was an experience and I do have to say I learned a lot from it. I really think the biggest problem was that this job reminded me of a job I had in high school, my first real job actually. It was working in a sub shop in Palmyra, PA. I worked after school and on weekends. It was slave labor as far as I was concerned. I came home smelling like meatballs and onions. It was so gross I couldn't eat subs for years afterwards. I only lasted there a few months. September until December. During my time there I went to Europe for three weeks and for whatever reason going back to that place after traveling around Europe just seemed dirty...I went back for one day and quit that day, never to return.
This place smelled similar to that place...the work was very much the same and the people were the same. It freaked me out...it made me feel like I was 16 again...a time I really don't wish to relive.
Maybe I am a chicken and I run away from things that frighten me. When I sold greeting cards I would intentionally leave the register if someone came in for the lottery. The lottery machine was confusing and people buy lottery tickets are very particular...it was just too much pressure. If I could see someone walking through the parking lot that was a lottery regular, I would hid in the store so I didn't have to use the machine. Pathetic.
Oh well...wish me luck in the continuing job hunt. Tomorrow I may hit up the mall, there were some help wanted signs posted when Grande and I were there last night. Maybe I will have some luck with something there. Fingers crossed!!
I don't really feel anything about quitting...not sure what that means. After only 2 days, though, I don't think I really had any kind of attachment to the place. It really wasn't any one thing that drove me to quit. The people were nice enough, the work was meh...it was more the politics behind working in that type of industry...either that or working for a billion dollar company, sitting behind a desk maybe made me soft. That or the freedom to get up from my desk and move around at my own will maybe is just too appealing to me.
It was an experience and I do have to say I learned a lot from it. I really think the biggest problem was that this job reminded me of a job I had in high school, my first real job actually. It was working in a sub shop in Palmyra, PA. I worked after school and on weekends. It was slave labor as far as I was concerned. I came home smelling like meatballs and onions. It was so gross I couldn't eat subs for years afterwards. I only lasted there a few months. September until December. During my time there I went to Europe for three weeks and for whatever reason going back to that place after traveling around Europe just seemed dirty...I went back for one day and quit that day, never to return.
This place smelled similar to that place...the work was very much the same and the people were the same. It freaked me out...it made me feel like I was 16 again...a time I really don't wish to relive.
Maybe I am a chicken and I run away from things that frighten me. When I sold greeting cards I would intentionally leave the register if someone came in for the lottery. The lottery machine was confusing and people buy lottery tickets are very particular...it was just too much pressure. If I could see someone walking through the parking lot that was a lottery regular, I would hid in the store so I didn't have to use the machine. Pathetic.
Oh well...wish me luck in the continuing job hunt. Tomorrow I may hit up the mall, there were some help wanted signs posted when Grande and I were there last night. Maybe I will have some luck with something there. Fingers crossed!!
Monday, February 12, 2007
the world works in some stupid ass ways...
So, as I said in my earlier post for today (hell yes, that is two posts in ONE day!!), working sucks. In desperate need for money I took a crap job working at a place that sells bagels and coffee...this job is paying me a little less than half the money I made at my old really shitty job...so I took one hell of a pay cut and instead of sitting behind a nice computer in a comfy chair where I have the ability to pee on my own schedule, I am standing all day, burning the heck out of my fingertips, coming home smelling like bagels...here is where the world works in strange ways part...
Today, the first day of my crappy new job, I got a phone call from a company that wants to interview me for a job similar to my last job (hopefully minus the insane people), paying more than I made before...why today?! Why after months of searching for a job do I start a job, only to have the hope that a better job is only a few days away...the world works in some stupid ass ways...
Wish me luck, keep your fingers crossed...I may have an interview for this job by the end of the week!!!
Honestly, I have felt so worthless the past few weeks...then to have to take a job slicing bagels really made me feel like one hell of a big loser. Not that selling bagels makes a person a loser, but I worked for a huge multi-million dollar company, as a senior level associate, I made enough money to pay my bills, buy all my beauty products from Sephora and shop at any store I wanted too...it just kind of sucked to have to take a job that wouldn't allow for that same kind of life. That and I, aside from the insane treatment at my last job, really did like what I did...
It would just be nice not to feel so worthless... :-)
So fingers crossed that this works!!
Today, the first day of my crappy new job, I got a phone call from a company that wants to interview me for a job similar to my last job (hopefully minus the insane people), paying more than I made before...why today?! Why after months of searching for a job do I start a job, only to have the hope that a better job is only a few days away...the world works in some stupid ass ways...
Wish me luck, keep your fingers crossed...I may have an interview for this job by the end of the week!!!
Honestly, I have felt so worthless the past few weeks...then to have to take a job slicing bagels really made me feel like one hell of a big loser. Not that selling bagels makes a person a loser, but I worked for a huge multi-million dollar company, as a senior level associate, I made enough money to pay my bills, buy all my beauty products from Sephora and shop at any store I wanted too...it just kind of sucked to have to take a job that wouldn't allow for that same kind of life. That and I, aside from the insane treatment at my last job, really did like what I did...
It would just be nice not to feel so worthless... :-)
So fingers crossed that this works!!
working sucks!
I smell like toasted bagels...my finger tips are raw from spreading (poorly I might add!) cream cheese on the bagels and my middle back hurts cause I am old and not used to standing...
But I needed money, so what else could I do?! I thought of selling plasm, but that sounded painful, if I had only known how hot bagels are when they come out of a toaster I maybe would have settled on plasm! ;-)
Oh well...I will know better for next time!
But I needed money, so what else could I do?! I thought of selling plasm, but that sounded painful, if I had only known how hot bagels are when they come out of a toaster I maybe would have settled on plasm! ;-)
Oh well...I will know better for next time!
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Cats are funny...
Yesterday I lost Pookie...
The house isn't that big, so I was a little bit worried when she was missing for about 2 hours during the day. I looked everywhere, closets, under the bed, in the basement, under furniture, even out in the garage...no Pookie.
Finally I for some reason thought to look in the spare bathroom...and sure enough there was Pookie...she pulled down the hand towel to sleep on in front of the heat vent...
So it would seem that Pookie isn't liking the cold weather of upstate NY...here are other shots of her in front of various heat vents in the house...
This one y0u have seen before, but it seemed appropriate to use it again in this Pookie and the heat vent display...
The house isn't that big, so I was a little bit worried when she was missing for about 2 hours during the day. I looked everywhere, closets, under the bed, in the basement, under furniture, even out in the garage...no Pookie.
Finally I for some reason thought to look in the spare bathroom...and sure enough there was Pookie...she pulled down the hand towel to sleep on in front of the heat vent...
So it would seem that Pookie isn't liking the cold weather of upstate NY...here are other shots of her in front of various heat vents in the house...
This one y0u have seen before, but it seemed appropriate to use it again in this Pookie and the heat vent display...
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