NJM #11 - 11/11 in These Foolish Things

Not much to say today. Cold front blew through today and I made a huge dent in the Holiday decor department - all just as planned. Still have more to do, but it’s gonna be cold again tomorrow, so it’s perfect hibernating and decorating weather.

Got my first week’s schedule for my Holiday Retail Job that starts on Sunday. The Store Manager gave me 21 hours, which is not a super lot, but probably a good way to ease back into working. They are all 4 - 4.5 hour shifts. I’m sure the first week will determine if I get more hours or if they’ll put me in the stockroom to unload the trucks or whatnot.

Updates on the other job situations are all kinda pending. I get bits and pieces on the daily.

I heard from the Utah Home Decor company outside recruiter who told me that she has not heard anything from the company, but hold tight because they are still making decisions. That’s the same thing that the president wrote in his email back to my thank-you email. We shall see. Not holding my breath, but not NOT holding my breath. I’m starting to feel very “meh” about this opportunity, but I won’t turn it down if it’s offered to me.

I heard from another recruiter about the interview I had with the British company earlier in the week and she wants to speak with me again early next week. Now I have an actual schedule I have to work around, ha!

And then I was contacted by the head of HR for a fashion company I’ve been targeting for years and years…and YEARS. I’ve tried and tried to get someone to talk to me to no avail - and yet, now they are reaching out to me. Interesting. It’s for a job I’m not necessarily qualified for, but I will certainly talk with the head of HR. Who knows what could come of this? We are talking on Monday.

In other news, I really have no other news.

I’m trying to get Maria to go out with me next week. She’s in a funk and I’m kind of worried about her. One of her favorite musicians in playing in this sexy little club that’s close to her neighborhood and I texted her about it and she never even answered me! That’s not like her. We both could use a good night out - pretty desperately!

I had peeked back on Bumble and matched with this hot physician a couple weeks back. We’d messaged back and forth a few times and he asked me super last minute about going out last Friday but I received the message too late, so he then asked about this Friday (which would be tonight) several days ago. I told him I was available and then gave him my number so we could text outside the app, and he disappeared.

Oh! Speaking of no follow-through and bad dating behavior, I’ve been meaning to write about this and I always forget: I somehow stumbled across this private Facebook group called “Are We Dating the Same Guy” and was fascinated by this prospect so I applied to become a member. Once I was let in, it was like a goldmine of spilled tea and massive red flags! Hours upon hours of entertainment! There are 33.1K women from [my city] in this group already and the group is growing by the minute. There are hundreds upon hundreds of photos of different guys and just about every single one of them has 75+ comments about what a dog this guy is and what they’d done to screw multiple girls over. I was quite surprised not to come across any of the dudes I’ve been out with (yet), but I’m a little older than this demographic. Still, I could spend hours and hours just reading over comments, and yet…remember yesterday’s entry about how I still believe in love? If I spend too much time scouring the comments of this group, I’ll never get myself back out there.

And that’s really the bottom line, isn’t it? Getting myself OUT there?

Must work on this.

Okay, Happy Weekend, loves!
GS