February 2011
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Turnips, huh?
I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but a few weeks ago I joined a farm club through LivingSocial. This is important to us because we’re trying to buy local and eat healthy. Each week, I fill out an order form and choose different products to be delivered to my door in a wooden crate on Sunday mornings. I can also order a local produce box, which is a bunch of random farmy...
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Niki
What happened to her?
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Well Golly Me!
That there was one of the best dadgum phone interviews I ever done did had. Sweet sassy molassy.
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Wherein I combine a weight-loss post with a...
So there I am, speaking all confidently on how I’d be a good fit for whatever it is that they’d have me do, looking svelte in my too-big-for-me blazer and dress pants and shirt, expressively gesturing with my hands as I explain one thing or another, when my wedding ring flies off my finger as if gravity has no meaning and slides across the table with a CLANG CLANG CLANGCLANG CLANGggg.
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Truthful Tuesday
40 pounds. Well, 39 pounds, to be exact. But by tomorrow or the next day it will be 40 pounds.
Dec. 28th, 2010: Starting weight - 205.6
Feb. 22, 2011: 166.0.
I have 21 more pounds to go before I get to the “optimum” weight for a 32 year old 5’6” male, which is 145. Seems kind of light, eh? We’ll see. I’m almost there.
Kind of a funny thing - I have a couple...
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It's not even 7:30am yet
and I’ve already had my coffee, ate a bowl of cereal and dumped out.
Guess I should probably get used to it, especially if I’m gonna get one of those big boy jobs.
I don’t even know who I am anymore.
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Jobs, jobs and more jobs
I’ve got interviews out the wazoo. One of these jokers better hire me.
I'm in one of my "does not play well with others"...
It’s technically my last day of work before I get the boot, and they’re trying to suck every last drop out of me. My soon-to-be former boss is having me send her every single thing I’ve done (and explain how I did it) so she can do it after I’m gone. Also, getting slammed with last-minute work she wants done by the end of the day because there’s no one else who has...
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Another interview booked
I should get paid for booking interviews… HEY! I should become a recruiter. They book interviews, right?
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Who’s got 2 1 1/2 thumbs and is chopping carrots?
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Down to 169.
I’m disappearing before your very eyes.
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Tuesday: Truthful
I’m trying to stay positive about this whole losing-my-job thing, telling the wife not to worry and that “everything will be alright” and “I got this” and “I’ll have a new job by the end of the month” and “everything always works out for us” and “please don’t drink the last of my orange juice.”
But, in truth, I’m...
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WatchThis woman’s voice - wow. I love the contrast between her singing voice and speaking voice.
But seriously, how can a human make that kind of beautiful sound with their voice box? Crazy.
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One interview scheduled.
Who’s next? Who wants a piece of this? Come at me, bro.
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No candy. No flowers. No little cherubs shooting...
I should probably go pick up a card while she’s at work, huh?
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Things I did today
Watched TV
Took a nap
Watched TV
That’s about it.
Surprisingly not as worried as I should be
After spending most of the evening applying to jobs through internet boards and exploiting every contact I have in the Metro Richmond area, I have a pretty good feeling.
I would be willing to bet that I’ll have a kick-ass job in 2 weeks. Or soon after.
It just seems different this time around.
But we shall see, I guess.
K bye.
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Somebody is unemployed. Again.
I’ll give you one guess who it is.
I figured this day was coming soon. Didn’t expect it today, though.
Damn.
Welp, time to hit up the craigslist. For jobs, not prostitutes.
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My cabbage rolling leaves a little something to be...
Also, I don’t normally follow recipes. I have ingredients and look up some ideas. One recipe for these cabbage rolls caught my eye. It called for beef or pork, but I substituted the portobellos. I usually read the recipe over once or twice, then add my own little spin on it based on what I know I like.
I started making dinner at 5:30. It is now 7pm and I still need to wait 45 minutes or so...
I've decided to make portobello cabbage rolls for...
6pm can’t get here fast enough.
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Ever pour yourself a bowl of cereal, throw some...
No? Just me, then?
Garlicky hummus is garlicky.
gimmie kiss.
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Yeah, but...
I have to pay for the flight to Los Angeles AND the hotel room AND the copious amounts of alcohol AND the strippers AND the cocaine?
Yeah, no thanks.
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Today is wear a Football Jersey To School Day
My wife, being a teacher, doesn’t really have any football jerseys of her own. I, however, have many (of the Buffalo Bills variety, thankyouverymuch). But a man-sized football jersey doesn’t really drape flatteringly on a 4’11” female frame.
Luckily, I have a Jim Kelly jersey I acquired sometime in the early 90’s that is very tight around the stomach area and a...
That shit in Egypt is crazy.
This concludes my insightful commentary on the Egyptian uprising.
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