Going up up up

So, I got a call today! woot. Screening interview! Whole foods. I'm stoked, pulled the step mom connection and got speeded to the top of the list. nice. But I was just about to hit formation (Marine Corps for those of you that don't know) and had to ask for a better time. It worked out. I am going to go in tomorrow to cultivate more connections and see the store and then Tuesday is my moment to start shining I am SO exhausted today. been a busy four days of drill. Thank garsh I wasn't in the field. The funerals were crazy awesome and I did my job perfectly yesterday. TODAY. ah. today. I figured out that I didn't get paid for 11 days of work! nice. So I will be getting that pay and the last four days of pay soooooon! I'm not so broke and I have an interview. Things are looking up! I just wanted to share a moment I had with the pups other day before I drop into bed.

I present Athena and Artemis.

I guess I'll go eat worms...

Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentle folk! I had one of those days today that are so different than the normal routine that I managed to de-stress through stress. Last night I lay awake for two hours stressing about the Marine Corps and Drill and money and jobs and the apartment. I stressed about going to college to finally finish my degree and I stressed about doctor stuff. I was a mess! You know the feeling when you stress so much you start to doubt all if any good qualities you may have. Like, for instance, I started stressing that I was mean to my boyfriend and that I don't work hard enough at work.. For petesake!

Well this morning was a yes, no, wait, yes, wait, yes, no, no, yes, maybe, no.. definitely no morning. I ended up not having to go to the field but I still work this weekend so get some money. And through all that and then the mind numbingly meticulous work that followed I lost some of my stress... Thank goodness because I came home to NOT A SINGLE reply to my job inquires. Alas, patience is mine enemy.


Arrivederci!

ps: packing starts tomorrow night because the apartment is auditing our place for safety and cleanliness. Perfect timing losers.

Broke: Flat, Stone and Completely

I faced a horrible reality today. I looked at my bank account. I now have the driving urge to weep profusely, tear at my hair and scream why at passing clouds. But this will do nothing for my poor, poor, and I mean poor.. bank account. So I was driven instead to my computer to a round of bookmarking job listings and resume building. I feel like I swallowed a horrible weight.. one of those fish kind with slime all over it. I need a job and now. I have made my resume (with the help of livecareer.com resume builder) and I will be submitting no less than 10 applications TONIGHT! yes.. I know this is a feat of near impossibleness. I have 3 hours.


The problem is that I have drill tomorrow until Sunday. Which means I am incredibly nervous and under informed. At this point I have no idea what I will be doing and if I will be staying nights or allowed to come home. It was talked about but never confirmed. But on the upside I get a measly 200 bucks out of the mandatory camping trip.

Off to the job seekers websites!

The day after a quarter century

Well Crap.

I'm 25 years old and I am not where I had hoped I would be. I'm not married (in fact I'm divorced), I don't have kids, I don't own a house, and I'm the broke-est of my life and I have yet to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Don't get me wrong. I love where life has lead me but right now I'm feeling like 25 is ancient and if anyone mentions the word 30 I will probably keel over into some sort of freakish seizure that would traumatize everyone present.

In the recent months I have felt this strange lack of motivation to plan or organize or anything.. And this is so unlike me. I mean really, I had a plan 10 years ago of where I wanted to be on this very day. That shiny married home-owning mother with the career and the college degrees never deigned to show her lovely pink cheeked face. SO you will understand when I say I am a tad bit pissed at her and I have taken it into my head to find the real me. Starting with a reality check.

Life doesn't seem to go as planned but that is just fine.

So what if I'm not where I thought I SHOULD be today. I have a (insert appropriately lovey-dovey adjective here) boyfriend. (whoa baby, I just stepped up and typed that word. For some reason the word boyfriend has made me uncomfortable. I assume it is because for 5 years I said husband and the kink hasn't worked its way out so this is my deep tissue massage. Bamcis) I am a United States Marine. RESERVE. That's right sweetstuff, take in this weekend warrior, the super of the pouges. I have two gargantuan destructive yet deceivingly sweet labs pups. I say puppies but they are actually dogs. I'm sure you will get over it. And last but not least, I just signed a rental agreement for a house.

Which is what brings us to the meat of this post.

The House and its not so vasty emptiness require filling. And in an adult way. College kid decor only goes so far. I'm stepping up to the plate, planting my feet and swinging this I'm a grown up bat.

Luckily the house itself is a grown up. Nice little 1928. Remodeled thank goodness and fortuity.

I cant help but wonder what person almost 90 years ago was doing in their nice shiny new home....

And I am SO going to bake a pie in an apron and set it on the sill of that dutch door... It might even have to be a flowery apron..

The Puppy land... that will require some puppy proofing I do believe. But no more having to take whining poopers outside in the dead of night. HA. Just open the door. Sweet.

I will be doing a DIY remodel on a VERY tight budget. I moved from a three bedroom house to a one bedroom apartment and now I am shifting to this two bedroom house. Getting things to fit, fill and look elegant is the trouble.Moving day is next Tuesday.

I'm Pinteresting like crazy in the mean time..