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- Out of the absolute blue, a job opportunity presented itself. I haven’t been looking for a job, but I felt like I would do myself a disservice if I didn’t at least interview for the position. Even though I interview job candidates as part of my current job, I haven’t been on a true job interview (other than for internal promotions) myself for almost 18 years. What a balls up THAT was.
- And because overanalyzing and agonizing over EVERY SINGLE pro and con of changing jobs after close to twenty years isn’t quite stressful enough for me, I went to an event this weekend and backed my car into another car in the parking lot. Not JUST another car in the parking lot…the NEWEST car in the parking lot. When the woman finally returned to her car after the event and opened her door to get the insurance info out of her glove compartment, I saw that she still had the dealer paper floor mats on the floor. Paper Floor Mats, People!
Egads.
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Journal Snippets from this day, years past:
- What Susan Sarandon doth tear asunder, John Lydon shall build back up.
- Did I mentioned that I dried my sheets on the clothesline yesterday? The outside smell that wafted off of them even after I put them back on my bed kept me happy for hours.
- Advice: Karma is a fact. It doesn’t matter if you believe in it or not. It believes in you.
- I want to be a muse. I want to be the one whose hair reminds an artist of a warm safe place where as a child they’d hide. I want to be the figure on the other side of a busy street who makes fleeting eye contact and momentarily causes that feeling of “home” and “rightness” before disappearing forever.
- Things that make me happy: My Boss’s Days off.
Don’t get me wrong. I like my boss. (actually, I have 2 bosses, and I like them both, but one is so low maintenance that I really don’t count her as my boss because I don’t DO anything for her.) And quite honestly, I miss my boss when he’s not there. But there is just something liberating about saying “my boss is on vacation.” It’s like Chicken Soup for the Peon Soul.
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The VIM is out of town for the week, so the job of putting drops in the two cats’ ears has fallen to me.
All I can say is AH HAH HAAAHAH HAHAHAH HAHAHh AHAHAHA. What a joke thinking I can wrangle up two cats who know what’s coming and keep them immoble long enough to drop liquid in their ears.
The OTHER thing I can say (quite clearly and loudly, punctuated by a few other definitely unElle-like words) is ouch.
Yesterday I was driving along, minding my own business, when I caught movement out of the corner of my eye. I knew immediately it wasn’t something outside the car. No. It was closer than that. At first I thought it was a yellow jacket, since I’ve had several of them in my car this summer. That’s always enough to give me a start, but no.
Even worse than a yellow jacket.
A spider.
It was just a little spider. Tiny by spider standards, I guess. But it was still a spider, and still walking back and forth on my rear view mirror, and still had the capability of jumping on me and sucking my life force out of my body. So I had to kill it. I mean, my safety was at risk…I couldn’t safely drive while keeping tabs on the spider’s whereabouts.
So I after I squashed it with the receipt for my new bed, I continued driving on. Feeling bad about the spider, but safer somehow. All attention and thought back on the road. Except for the thought that suddenly occured to me:
What if it wasn’t an adult tiny spider? What if it was actually a baby BIG spider? What if it just hatched from a nest SOMEWHERE INSIDE MY CAR????? What if there are more of them, just hanging out, getting bigger, just waiting for the opportunity to crawl up and say hi as I’m breezing down the interstate?
I’ve got me the shivers just thinking about it.
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End of the week.
Close to the end of my (working) vacation.
End of the moving (one more load).
End of summer.
Weird day. I’m a little blue, and yet a little excited because things are falling into place. I’m trying to get up and around early today because the bed is being delivered sometime between 12.30 and 3.30. Yay for beds!
It’s strange getting used to the difference between very-small town and medium-small town. I live on a quiet side street, but I can hear the traffic noises from half a block up. I can hear people walking RIGHT OUTSIDE MY WINDOWS – heading to the pizza shop on the corner. It’s strange to me to be surrounded by so many people all the time.
This is going to be a really good experience for me!
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For reasons not worth getting into here, I have never gone out and bought furniture on my own before. Never had the pleasure of choosing my own surroundings.
I bought a bed today. I had a blast trying out the different mattresses and scheduling a delivery time. I should have done this YEARS ago.
