Finally, the day has arrived. I got new contacts last night! You may be thinking: “Calm down, Sister Rain! It’s not like you won the lottery.” Oh, but I have. I’ve reached that age (and for those of you who have reached it also you will understand and for those…
I have always heard that the best time to search for a job is while you have one. True, you have some financial padding while you are working, but as the title of this blog suggests, searching for a job takes A LOT of time. So now I am juggling…
You may or may not watch American Idol. Either way, I’m guessing you’ve heard of Daughtry. I have been a fan since Chris Daughtry’s audition was shown on Idol, when he was wearing the straw cowboy hat. Even if I didn’t find him sexy (my husband is aware), I think…
I am the girl who never ever is ready to come home from a trip. Sure, in past positions, on a business trip, I’d get tired and need the kind of rest you can only get in your own bed in your own home. But normally, I love to travel…
This is my third night on the road and all I can think about is getting back home tomorrow. It is inconceivable that it’s only Wednesday night; it feels like I’ve been gone for 2 weeks! The hotels I stayed in the last two nights had no tub, just a…
There is something so inappropriate about sitting in a hotel room that the company is paying for, on a business trip, using the company laptop and the company wireless card, to search for a new job. And yet it gives me great pleasure. Is that wrong?
When I was helping my friend organize her house, we went to the Container Store. I told her, and I was as serious as a heart attack, that this was my idea of Heaven. Rows and rows of hard bins, the smell of plastic in the air, BLISS! I’m going…
DISCLAIMER: TO ANY POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS WHO MIGHT BE READING THIS. I “EXAGGERATE” FOR MY ART, FOR MY BLOG. SHOULD YOU HIRE ME, I WOULD BE AN EXEMPLARY EMPLOYEE. NO MATTER WHAT THE DAY OF THE WEEK. EXCEPT THOSE ENDING IN “Y”. ——————————————————————————– I have decided that Friday’s are like a…
This morning at the event I was working I asked a gentleman for his name and phone number at registration and he responded by saying: “Are you trying to sell me something already?” And this was the BEST part of my day . . .
