Sunday, October 22, 2006

Describe Yourself



Sneak peek of an upcoming kit for November at Scrap Addict. I did a layout of the five ways my girls see themselves, and my list below theirs. It's interesting to see how they really see themselves. They weren't too far off base. Katy thinks she's insane, a band geek, intelligent, a jester and athletic. Shona says she's beautiful, smart, sweet, silly and loves games. My lists are in the last post.

Ah, another week another headache. Or so it seems. I was called for an interview late last week. Of course the one time they wanted me to come in is the one darn time of the week I had something planned, so I had to shift that around to accommodate their schedule. That's not the way to start off a good working relationship with me! ;) To be honest, I hope I don't get it. It's full time, I'm just looking for part time, and it's kind of out of the way. I would have to drive a bit out of town to get there on windy, twisty country roads and I don't think I have it in me to do that in the dead of winter when the weather is at its worst.

Our neighbor called to tell us people were looking at the property this weekend. There is an open house scheduled on Monday for it. I would almost rather not know people are looking at it. Then I am not disappointed when no offers come in. Selling a house is by far ten times (at least) worse than buying one. At least on the buying end you are in the position of choosing. I hope to be in that position soon instead of being stuck on the selling end.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

My kids in a nutshell

Annette issued a blogging challenge to describe our kids in five words or phrases. Soooooo mine are:

Katy
Outgoing
Intelligent
Fearless
Independent
Worldly

Shona
Leadership Material
Social Butterfly
Artistic
Quick Learner
Larger than life

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

I can take a hint

My blog misses me. Sooo funny. I can take a hint! Truth is, I've been kind of hiding from the world. Things are starting to suck here. I've been applying for jobs steadily since I got here three months or so ago and nothing has materialized. I'm not even getting a chance...I've had exactly two, count them, TWO interviews since I've been here. Either competition is fierce or they see my resume, assume I wouldn't work for what they want to pay (which is incorrect), and don't bother to call me. That's even when I send a follow up letter. It has reached the point that I pulled out my cell phone the other day to call my house phone. I was *sure* that I'd been writing the wrong phone number on my applications. Nope, it was right. I'm more than qualified for what I'm applying for, so I don't know what the problem is. Even the factories aren't calling me and all the local job office can do is take my resume over and over again for the jobs that come open through their office. It's crazy and depressing, especially considering my house still isn't sold. Not only isn't it selling, it isn't even being shown because the market apparently died a couple of months ago. I feel completely frustrated and helpless on both ends.

So with all that going on, I've been very down in the dumps. Money is really tight, John is having to work a lot of weekend ball games and things to make some extra cash. I will say the school pays very well for those things....$40/pop for a few hours of taking money. That will probably carry us through, but with Christmas coming on, I'm really starting to feel the pinch. Plus, that means I don't see him much. Katy is always at some activity and that leaves me and Shona to entertain one another. At least she enjoys artsy stuff like her mom.