Sorry, sorry, sorry

Last week a tree next to our house was struck by lightning and I meant to take pictures and video for you, but really, you could just Google search it and be just as bewildered. This is where I found it: www.photographyontherun.com/LightningTree.aspx

Anyway. I got an interview for a Copy Editor position for a personal finance Web site in North Palm. I was offered a temp to hire position there for the next month. So, here's hopin' they still like me after a month!

I've been making things for people that replied to my FaceBook note a few months ago. There were 8 people that replied, so they're all getting things made by me. I just sent 3 today and 1 a week ago. I think everybody's please. Three more to make, four more to send out. Here's a picture of a blueberry:

Won't be going anywhere for the 4th because I want to save money. And I have a book to proof, so I'll have things to do.

If you haven't seen it already, here's a trailer for the most brutal freak-out ever made by Jared's best friend Nolan:

Pigopotamus

Hey, girl, heeeey! I'm truly concerned about the amount of sleep I'm receiving while still feeling absolutely exhausted. I got some egg crate cushioning, but I still wake up later than I should feeling more tired than I should.

Yesterday, I learned to iron. Well, I knew how, it's just I like to pretend that I don't to avoid doing it altogether. That's called honesty. I also went to the post office to send off some freebies to friends and some items to an online consignment store Out of the Blue Delivered. I can't show you the freebies I made because some of you won't be receiving them until the time is right. Oh, all right I'll cut out the surprise one:
So I tried to make a hippopotamus, but it kinda looks like a pig-opotamus. I wasn't really that interested in checking my gauge because making animals aren't something I necessarily want to get good at. Every leg on that octopus was too many. haha After the pigopotamus, though, I'm considering making a magnus opus called MANBEARPIG.

I applied to be a Content Specialist in Coral Springs and a Copy Editor in North Palm. I doubt I'll hear back from either of them, but at least I'm trying.

I love postcards

This is my shameless plug for Postcrossing.com. It's going to be my one-year anniversary of being a member of a weird international postcard exchange program. I've received more than 20 postcards in the past year and sent just as many. I've accumulated quite a collection, so I'm hoping that one day I can put them on display in my future "office."

This one continues to be my favorite. It's from Sweden:

Who doesn't love getting a postcard from Sweden of a ginger baby confused over an orange in the woods? I mean, come on! Here's a link to look at all the ridiculous postcards I've gotten in the last 12 months: http://www.postcrossing.com/user/PriscillaMcE

Next, Jared has an interview with the Best Buy closest to my parents' house. He got another call today from the other Best Buy not so close to my parents' house. So, hopefully, he'll have to cancel tomorrow's because he was offered a job today. Ehhhh, I'm trying not to get too excited, but I just know this will be the boost that's been so vital to overall morale.

In other news, I'm deciding to take control of my eating/exercise habits. I need to unlearn eating because I'm bored/stressed and start to learn to incorporate resistance exercise in my daily routine. It's one thing to take a walk every day, but it's quite another to push yourself more and more each day, little by little, mind you. I'm going to try and eat more protein, less sugary/salty snack foods, and less bread things. Not completely, but I've noticed that I eat a waffle, a sandwich, potato chips, and something else bread-related purely out of laziness. I'm trying to remind myself that I really do love cottage cheese, carrot sticks, grapes, and the bean family.

This is right after I inhaled a bologna sandwich with melted provolone cheese, salt and vinegar potato chips, and a half a glass of low-fat chocolate milk. Goooo.

Lastly, yay for my cousin's baby boy Nolan! YAAAAYYY! And yay for my other cousin's baby Warren who can now stand up on his own. AAAHHHHHH! And yay for my friend Anne's baby Phoebe 'cause she's so freakin' precious and funny! BAAAABIIIESSSSS.

Ahem. Sorry. Baby freak-out.

Very lastly, My Milk Toof.

Huzzah!

Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

I just can't get a break.

During an argument while I was out, a decision was made and Jared and I moved out of his parents' house in 90 minutes. We stayed with Janine on Friday night and then Saturday we drove to my parents' house and moved in there.

Almost one year ago, I was doing the exact same thing, but at that time, I had a job, goals, and a plan. Now. I don't. Kinda.

It takes a lot to get me down, but life is doing a pretty good job of taking a crap on my plans and any sort of stability I thought I had.

Still no job for Jared, but not due to a lack of trying, believe you me. Seriously. I have never seen anybody apply to so many jobs. It's so hard to see him so discouraged and frustrated. We have done everything that everyone has suggested or recommended. Everything. No, everything, but put his resume on people's windshields like fools on the evening news. That's just ridiculous. And kinda dangerous.

So. I may not have anything to say or report about since I'll be doing nothing, but watching my bank account evaporate.

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I had to move again...

Scant details to follow.

It Can Be Argued...

that I give too much of myself. I drive for hours, I fly on airplanes, I sacrifice my emotions, etc. for the approval and love of other people. Would those same people do the same things for me? Well, that's a slippery question because some people have jobs, children, homes, and bills. I try to make the impossible more possible.

It could be argued that sometimes I let people take advantage of me.

DOG WITH A PIPE!