This week my youngest has off from school. The school says it is spring break. When I was a child, it was Easter break, but then again, I went to a private religious school. We were allowed (in fact, encouraged), to observe religious holidays. Now, the tiniest hint of religion and there are screams of [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Plans always change
Posted in Day by day on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Temptations
Posted in Day by day, Personal on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hate temptations. I hate them with a passion. Some temptations are so easy for me to ignore: that bag of potato chips in the pantry. You know the bag I mean – the wavy ones, the ones my hubby bought with the intention of eating them late at night while watching TV, but then [...]
Recruiters
Posted in Work on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The recruiters have started. My former employer dumped me on Feb 29. I have mentioned it on here earlier. Last week, the recruiters started. I had no voice (bronchitis, pneumonia, something yucky that the doc gave me antibiotics for). I had two, alternating on the phone for me. I did my best to croak the [...]
Blind Ads
Posted in Work on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been trying to get a new job since the end of my very short term stint with the help desk software people. The Virginia Employment Commission hasn’t been much help. I thought they were supposed to help me find interviews. They haven’t done anything other than confirm that I wasn’t let go due [...]
The Brownster
Posted in Personal on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I received an email from my sister today. It was somewhat unexpected, but also somewhat expected. Earlier this month, she had to put her dog down. He had been her companion for so many years. More years than I really remembered. He was born in 1995. She got him when she was living in Indiana.
The [...]
Other people’s kids
Posted in Personal on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My daughter had a sleep over. This happens a lot. She sleeps over there. Her friend sleeps over here. Sometimes I get mistaken for the mother of twins, even though they really don’t resemble each other – fraternal twins, I suppose.
We always have the same problem though – meal time. From the very beginning of [...]
Ducks again
Posted in Nature on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It has been a while since I wrote about ducks, but I wanted to touch on something I saw the other day.
It was Easter Vigil. Our church has a Mass the night before Easter. It always starts with the Ceremony of Light. We start in the Memorial Garden, with a fire (now in a ceramic [...]
Twice a year
Posted in Personal on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am a Christian. I go to church each Sunday. I volunteer time with my church. I am in the choir. Yada yada.
This morning, my family and I got to church a bit early. I knew the choir was going to have some extra songs, songs we don’t sing all the time, so I wanted [...]
At Will Employment
Posted in Work on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“At Will Employment” sucks. Last summer, I interviewed with a local software company for what appeared to be the perfect position. It was a programming position with a company that has only one product (help desk software). The company appeared to be very progressive – fancy coffee machine in the break room, very casual clothing, [...]
Been a While
Posted in Personal, Work on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know I said in my last posts that I was going to be posting at Geekend, and I have, but not as much as I thought I might. Instead, I have mostly spent my time in trying to change to a better job. Last I spoke about it, I was working for a non-profit [...]
