Job Update

So unfortunately there was "no room at the inn" for little orphan amber... (Courtney, this is the last time I'll be able to say this... unless I manage to be laid off a third time in three months...) I did not get the job I recently bloged about.
Dry those tears, kids, the story isn't over.
Thanks to the fact that Cathi Workman is pretty much awesome... (If you don't know who she is, then you single guys out there are seriously missing out- if I was a guy, I'd date Cathi)
I now have a temp-to-hire job at Vanguard University! At the risk of sounding, I don't know, totally honest- they love me. And I love them.
It's pretty much awesome.
Just like Cathi.

man-tastic

I want to talk to the people in charge of marketing/fragrance selection/naming of the fragrances at bath and body works...
I recieved a tube of lotion as a gift from bath and body works- great gift, even better gift giver, but here's the deal: 1) it smells like a man a)wearing really good smelling cologne who's b) chewing gum and 2) it's labeled "stress relief"
Did NO ONE in their testing sessions notice this??
so now I myself smell like a man wearing really yummy smelling cologne chewing gum...
I'm more stressed out now than I was before I put it on...
Does anyone want some lotion that smells like man?

let's get this party started!

So today I had an interview for what can only be described as my dream job. (no, I did not interview in missions with Bob Bradberry for those of you who know me- I wish...)

so I arrive for my interview with my A GAME on... ready to go.. bring it on... seriously... I was in the zone...
I walk into the "interview room" and there are six people sitting around the table... all waiting to interview ME.
Um, are we in the right room?
scary...
but talk about a sink or swim moment... you either crumble or step up to the plate.
and God pretty much shoved me right up to that plate.
and even if I don't get the job, I will still praise him for being him. His faithfulness is overwhelming.
He truely is enough.
Praise Him.

wait.... what??

Have you ever had a moment where something happened that you didn't expect- a "happening" if you will, that was so out of the blue and baffling you didn't know what to say? Have you ever been in a situation that was so random, so totally speech-takingly unexpected and the only reaction you can muster is
"wait....... what?"

next thought: "oh my gosh... this is actually happening"

and then: "can I pretend this didn't just happen??"


I had one of those this week...
two actually.

Both situations were far too embarassing to post their specifics on the world wide web for everyone and their mother to read (trust me, I found out this week that everyone and their mother really does read this stuff) but suffice it to say that I'm a changed woman... and a better one for it at that.

Harry Potter part 1

At midnight tonight I'll be sitting in a movie theater in Foothill Ranch, alone, with 3,000 other lunatics (most of whom will be dressed up in robes, holding sticks (pretending they're wands) and checking out each others' "scars" which in all reality were created with eyeliner drawn on their foreheads in the shape of a lightning bolt- most likely by their mothers). and then there will be me. sitting between two strangers, wearing my jeans, rainbows and a hoodie, waiting to see Harry Potter. i will be sitting between two strangers mostly because a certain Sharon can't commit to spontaneity, and partly because I don't know anyone who actually likes Harry Potter. Chris doesn't even like it, he was just being nice but then had a panic attack when he realized that he would be out until 3am... so I revoked my invitation in an attempt to remove the source of the stress, only to incite offense at being un-invited.

alas... I want to see this movie so badly that I'm going- even if I must go by myself.
See? I CAN commit.

I'll be your Dixi Chicken if you'll be my Tennessee Lamb

I'm not picky. I'm accepting applications, invitations, proposals and any and all forms of communication.
I'm a keeper.

changing the world...

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage, and wisdom moves the world.
-Ammon Hennacy (Catholic Activist 1893-1970)