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Wednesday, December 29, 2004
I simply do not know what to do now
KCCI, my beloved KCCI, did not put out a 2005 weather calendar this year. Anyone in my family can tell you how much I love those calendars because they've all helped me acquire one over the years. I can't even remember the first year I had, but I find myself at a loss for a good calendar now. I emailed John McLaughlin just to be sure and he said, and I quote, "No, not this year". It may take me a while to come to terms with this.
In happy, happy news, however, Bath & Body Works is, for a limited time, selling my scent (and other discontinued scents)!--for less than half price, even!! Heck yeah, I'm stocking up! I think they heard me complaining a couple months ago. That must have been it. :-)
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Christmas favorites
So now that my dad and I have seemingly successfully fixed the lack of running water problem in Paul's trailer without any apparent pipe busts from potential freezing, I thought it would be fun to share with you all some of my favorite Christmas "things." In list form, but no particular order, for simplicity:
1. Jesus' birth!
2. Snow--we just got some more today! :-)
3. Christmas trees--the real ones, all decorated pretty and smelling piney, but there are some good fake subsitutes if they're decorated well.
4. Hot spiced apple cider.
5. Aebelskiver.
6. Chili.
7. Joy on the faces of friends and family.
8. My grandma's authentic spritz cookies and turtles.
9. A fire in the fireplace (when there was one in the family...B&J, you should work on that ;-))
10. Christmas songs and carols, particularly verse #2 of "What Child Is This?":
Why lies he in such mean estate
Where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christian, fear; for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading.
Nails, spear shall pierce him through,
The cross be borne for me, for you;
Hail, hail the Word made flesh,
The babe, the son of Mary!
Merry Christmas everybody!! :-D
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Life is what happens while you're making plans
Back in November, in the midst of all the trips to Denison and heavy job-searching in the Sac County area, I started hanging out with Paul, this guy I knew from church. He was really fun and I was really enjoying myself. We went out to eat a couple times, went hiking at Ledges State Park, and spent a lot of time sitting around church or standing in the parking lot by our respective cars talking. A week before Thanksgiving, he asked if I'd like to go bowling, which he knew I'd been itching to do, so of course I said yes. Nothing was ever said verbally, but, non-verbally, everything said, "this is a date."
After Thanksgiving, he asked me if I'd go to a Vet Med formal with him on December 4th. Because things hadn't worked out to see my dad's mom over Thanksgiving, we had been planning to go up to Wall Lake to visit her for the "Holiday Coffee" they were having that day. He told me he'd really like to take me to the formal, but that seeing my grandma came first. My parents and I drove to Wall Lake separately that day and I left the festivities at Twilight Acres early to run back here to Ames and get ready for the formal. It's really all been downhill (in a good way, of course :-)) since then and a whole lot of fun! So he's where I've kind of unexpectedly disappeared to both on here and chatting online. :-D
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
What female executives should be called
"Executies." I accidentally coined the term today in an away message and I really like it.
I still have not heard from anyone, but I'm not really expecting anything at this time of year. However, here is the story about Howard Center: When I was sitting around chatting with Carol in Wall Lake about a month and a half ago, she mentioned that I really should look into a place in Sac City called Howard Center, which is really growing and just opened a new office in Carroll. It provides all kinds of services for people with disabilities and one of the people they provide employment services for is Carol's 40-year-old son with Down Syndrome. So she gave me their address and told me a little more about them. Later that week I was up there again for my first interview at the hospital in Denison, so instead of mailing my resume and cover letter to them, I stopped in with it. I ended up filling out an application and talking with both the executive and assistant directors, showing them my portfolio and telling them about all the Public Relations I did in college. They told me that they had been considering possibly hiring someone to do PR but hadn't thought about how to go about finding someone to hire. Now, anyone who has heard me talk much about job searching and careers knows that, in general, I don't want to do PR full-time. However, this is one place where I can see myself doing it and enjoying it, even if it means starting the position from scratch--that actually has me a little excited. I've told them how much I'd like to do it, but it is entirely up to them whether they would want to create the position and how they'd go about hiring someone. So we'll see. I'm so tired of this, did ya'll know that? It is very not fun. :-P
Friday, December 10, 2004
No news is good news
Or so I was told anyway by the HR director at Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison. "No news means no decision has been made yet," I believe is exactly what he said. I wouldn't be surprised if I got a letter in the mail in the next few days telling me they went with someone else, but if I don't then that's apparently a good thing. And both the HR director and hospital administrator are on vacation now but I don't remember for how long. I just remember that they were hoping to have a decision made before that time.
Otherwise, I have gotten another rejection from BVU (and am about to apply for yet another job there), a rejection from a bank in Storm Lake, and receipt of application letters from two other jobs--one in Ida Grove with an outreach place and one in Schleswig with a bank. And have not heard one peep from either of the other two places I'd love to work and are, as far as I know, still considering me (Midwest Industries in Ida Grove and Howard Center in Sac City [I should tell ya'll that story, I just realized]). Oh, and all this is while my soil job is pretty much ended and I don't have squat lined up. But it ain't like I haven't been trying, dang it!
In other job-search news....anybody know of a good horticulture job in the Ames area that my friend Ben could get? He really wants to stay and is graduating in December and we'd love to keep him in PHS and I'm realizing that I wish I'd gotten to know him better before his last semester here. And Ed, what dost thou hear from John-boy? Inquiring minds want to know. :-)
