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These Foolish Things

by Ginger Snap

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September 30, 2022

Bad Idea

I was missing a few of my former work colleagues, and it was supposed to be a beautiful evening, so I invited a couple of the ol’ workmates to a happy hour. The plan was, I’d come close to the of...


September 25, 2022

Head Spins

Here are some bullets since my mind has been jumbled a bit lately: Holy schnit, did I get tooooo caffeinated yesterday or what? Now that I’m over the Covid bivalent booster, I went to brunch ye...


September 23, 2022

Moderna Covid Bivalent Booster

Crawling out of my skin a bit. On Wednesday I got the new bivalent Covid vaccine. All of my previous vaccines had been Pfizer and had zero side effects, but this one was Moderna and I wondered if...


September 18, 2022

The Secret to Faffing

Ugh. So lazy today. I woke around 8am and did not get out of bed until after 10am. This is not normal for me, and I don’t want to get in a groove like this, but sometimes it’s just so decadent to...


September 09, 2022

Noodles with Strangers

I last left off talking about how I was heading to a meetup.com event at one of my favorite noodle houses. This was going to be a first for me with the meetup group and I knew exactly ZERO people...


September 08, 2022

Some Updates

Regarding Tuesday’s entry, Mom got worse and went to her doctor today. She has been diagnosed with bronchitis and NOT Covid, so I’m feeling better, though she has COPD, so any kind of situation...


September 07, 2022

The Passive-Aggressive Prayer

I’ve been visiting my parents very regularly since the pandemic began. At first, we’d sit outside on the front porch, at least six feet apart every time, and chat for a while. Then I’d go do thei...


September 02, 2022

Joke's on Them*

As we approach the Labor Day Weekend, here I sit in the Treehouse all up in my feels this morning. I woke up late, snoozing my alarm over and over because I don’t really have anything to do toda...


August 31, 2022

Lack of Sleep

Had another phone interview today. It was scheduled and confirmed by both the company and myself. The interviewer simply never showed up. This is becoming a common theme, unfortunately. It’s tr...


August 28, 2022

I'M The Idiot?

I was walking Martini the other afternoon and was at the end of the walk and back to the apartment building. I was about to walk through the parking garage to get to the stairwell closest to my a...


August 26, 2022

Non-Event

Guess what I did today? I decided to go to a networking event! I’d seen this event posted somewhere online - I can’t remember how I found it (probably LinkedIn) - and had signed up for it a coup...


August 23, 2022

Recap of the Last Few Days

Last I left you, I was floating on a high of having completed 10+ interviews and a strong feeling that I’d hear back from two companies before the weekend. I was also kind of ego-stroked by a you...


August 19, 2022

"MA'AM! ARE YOU SINGLE?!"

Hey everyone. I had Interview #FIVE with the Structure Company today. Ughhh. I am getting so weary of interviewing! This time it was with the president of the company, and he was pretty cool, but...


August 13, 2022

Containing My Dreams

Have I ever told you that I dream about living in a container house? I’ve been thinking about this for years, and the thought just doesn’t seem to go away. A few years ago, I took a little road ...


August 11, 2022

All the Things In My Brain

Thank you for all the juju from my last entry, all! I had four separate Teams Meeting video chats with the fashion shoe company on Tuesday. They all seemed to go very well, but just like dating, ...


August 09, 2022

Juju**

Super quick this morning - I am video interviewing with four people from the fashion shoe company today. I’m very, very, very excited about this role, even though I don’t know too much about it y...


Okay. So I wrote yesterday’s entry after I wanted to come on early-ish on Monday to get an optimistic start of my week. But then I couldn’t get on the site and THEN the emails started rolling in....


Hey everyone. Happy Monday! I wanted to write here earlier this morning, but the site was timing out and I couldn’t get on to even log in. I was starting to think that this was the end of PB so ...


July 30, 2022

Nothing to See Here

Happy Saturday. Pretty quiet day so far. I took Martini out for an early morning walk on the downtown trail (alas, did not meet anyone, ha!). We walked for about 4 miles and then we went to the...


July 28, 2022

QuickTok

In from my dog walk and then shower and just freshly painted my nails. Next to get myself primped for my two interviews today: (1) The Structure Company - this will be Round 3, and (2) The Shoe C...


July 26, 2022

Annoying Updates*

[Shoe Company] Interview: Got all ready, zhuzhed just in case it was video instead of phone (was ready for both), reviewed the job description, crafted my questions for this particular role, then...


July 26, 2022

They Are Looking at Me!

So today is my first interview with HR recruiter for [shoe company], so I’m getting myself put together and ready for that. I thought that this was going to be a video conference, but all of my c...


July 25, 2022

Funemployment Week #21

Monday again. The start of another job hunt week. What week of Funemployment is this? Let me check… OK! Greetings from the beginning of Week #21 of Funemployment. I’m over it at this point. I am ...


OMG it is 6pm on a Friday evening and I have spent ALL WEEK creating a presentation for a company that I don’t even have an interview with! I put this project together hoping to get my foot in th...


July 16, 2022

Ketchup

Man, I have so much to catch up on that I don’t even know where to start. Seems like every time I pop on to read a little bit of your entries, there are 50+ entries to catch up on! I’m overwhelme...


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