October -- three birds on a wire

I interviewed for the trainer position for a third time yesterday. The TL gave me exactly 20 minutes of her time. I didn't get that position, no matter how you slice it, this was prehired as well. Of that I'm certain. It's frustrating of course. From a coporate view point, to take the time and go through the interview process with all of the qualified applicants helps to keep those applicants interview skills up, gives TL's a chance to know more of the people available to draw on, even after they've already made up their minds who they are going to promote. From a personal point of view, why bother to get my hopes up or put me through the paces wasting your time and mine if you have no intention of seriously considering me for the job? I could go on and rant a great deal more, there were several other indications that I was never seriously considered for the position, but the end result would be the same. So, no rant. A little disappointment and frustration voiced.


I am going to revel in the fun aspects of my job (job, not career) for the winter. I work from home and can wear bunny slippers any time I want to. I don't have to worry about a bad hair day, I can be a dreadlock baby if I want to. I am not in the office watched for 'coroporate appropriate behavior', again this means I can do what I want between calls and while it's on the 'not appropriate' list in the office, at home no one can censor me for it. Like reading a book between calls, or picking up the knitting or crochet, or folding clothes or just watching the squirrels at the feeder. I can play light classical in the background all day. I never walk into the bathroom and smell other ppl. I won't have to drive on ice and snow to get to work!


*sigh*


Carpal Tunnel or Arthritis?


I don't know yet. I'm making the appointment today. For the past several years its been primarily in my right hand, my dominant hand that handles the most tools over the course of a day. Now it's in my left hand, and putting any weight or pressure on my palm is enough to get a small girly scream out of me. dammit. And I don't know if I blogged this earlier but I got a stern note from my Ob/gyn office pointing out in CAPS that I had failed to make an appt at 6 months on the dot from my last one (they were supposed to be every 3 months but she agreed to 6 mos last time) and that the cancer I get isn't somthing you f*ck around with. So. Two Dr appts this month for me and one for Japes. We got the dental thing squared away for my kiddo. I like this new Dr office. They are good ppl with reasonable rates. It's going to cost me less than a quarter of what the first dentist quoted. Crikey he was a greedy man.


14 yr old has got the blues. There is a lot of angst that goes with being a spoiled rotten teenage girl. I wouldn't go back and be that age for real money. Hovering between childhood and that first taste of adulthood. It's a hard place to be in and I sympathize but i had no idea how much hell I put my own mom through with this behavior and I wasn't nearly as spoiled. LOL!


I'm going to price carpet and carpet installation this week too. We brought all the outdoor furniture indoors this weekend, did a good deep feed on the yards and put the big grill away for the winter. Mabon has come and gone and while I spent the day admiring the coming fall and the cool weather, I can't say that I marked the day with a heart and mind reflecting on rebirth. I did think about Laura on the flip side of the planet celebrating Ostara. She is a girl with energy to burn. She kept the day and kept it well.

Here is October. Caesar crossed the Rubicon in October. I was born in October. My second favorite commercial holiday and Holy Day are in October. With enough tylenol and aleve in me I can and will crochet a blizzard of warm, fuzzy, girl bits to sell at the craft fair. I've posted some nifty stuff on Etsy for sale and there will be quite a bit more as soon as I have hand models for the warmers. The craft fair committee is underway and it's time to put a wiggle in it.


Their are two juvenille gray squirrels who have taken up our yard as their home. I'm going to make them a squirrell house and put up a feeder in the big June in the front yard.


I think I found more than 3 birds sitting on the wire . . .

The jewelry is in my shop here and here.