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 . . .

Hello Friends. I promised to do better and post consistently so here I am. Tired, sweaty (yes the temp is still hovering around my goal weight) and discouraged. A job lead that looked good dried up this morning. I then spent 9 hours at an event, followed by an hour…

Today it was 104 on our thermometer in the back yard. That’s my goal weight . . .

I have been coming to the New Jersey shore long before Snooki or the Situation. Truth be told, I am old enough to be Snooki’s mother and at my Jersey shore a “situation” means your monthly visitor came early and you have to go to the drugstore for supplies. (Sorry…

As I’ve mentioned in previous blog entries, I love this country and I love that its birthplace is right down the road from my home. My new company is headquartered in Florida. I was given a laptop for work, and for security and bookkeeping purposes, every laptop issued has a…

I knew that when I got the new job and started immediately, with only 5 days between the offer acceptance and my start date, that I was returning to the work force in a rocket ship. But I don’t think I realized the impact of that on me until today….

I am SO SORRY I haven’t written in a few days. It’s unacceptable to me and I apologize. This new job has taken over my life and I am struggling to not only stay afloat, but awake! I follow blogs myself and it aggravates me when they are not updated….

I am going to be a Road Warrior over the next month for my job. I’ll be travelling a lot throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey and other spots in the area. It’s quite a change from the months I spent in my house, in my home office, scrolling through employment…