Today I had my first job interview since 1969, if I had one then at all. I felt it went very well, but I don't really have anything to compare it to, and there were a lot of people being interviewed (at LEAST 9, but I think more than that). It is secretary to the counseling office of one of our local junior high schools - the one my daughters ( Read more... )

After applying for somewhere between 50 and 100 jobs, I finally have my first job interview this afternoon.  Somehow this is suddenly all a lot scarier than in all the practice interviews I've been doing!  It not great pay, but it's full time, and given how long I've been out of the job market, is, I'm told, as much as I can expect anywhere, and ( Read more... )

Does anyone know how to get a coffee stain out of a carpet?
Thanks!

I have never before seen the ocean completely flat, completely motionless - no ripples, no undulations, no dancing glistening diamonds, no color or changes.  It is as though a huge plate of glass has been set on top of the ocean, though it looks more like a heavy plastic.  Maybe it has solidified?  Two days now.  Nothing breaking the surface.  Then ( Read more... )

Now, it's either "Senior, senile and sixty", or "Sweet and sexy sixty". Neither will work as a sig on my letters to lawyers, I suspect ( Read more... )

Ok, obviously Nea is a bad influence on me, because here I am, midmorning, posting a second entry for the day ( Read more... )

That was really sweet of you to remember my birthday and send me a chocolate cupcake! This is a biggie for me - 60!! I remember when 60 used to sound old! Heh. Probably still does to you. I don't FEEL 60! Granted, lots of parts of me are giving me trouble, but I feel maybe 30 to me ( Read more... )

My daughter got her copy of Harry Potter an hour and 10 minutes ago, and she is already on page 266!! OH, I wish I could read that fast!! At least I'll get my turn sooner. It will take me literally weeks, even if I read pretty much non-stop.

In some sort of record-breaking behavior, I actually went to 2 movies this week! The first one, I went up to the box office and said "one ticket for Knocked Up". They charged me the senior rate, without even asking! And I didn't even realize it until later. Do I really look that old? (I really didn't even qualify for two more weeks.) Then my ( Read more... )

People often say how great it is to get home again to your own bed. It is. But what it is REALLY great to get home to is REAL COFFEE, especially after 9 days of instant except that on the planes. When airline coffee is the best you've had for 9 days, you know it's bad ( Read more... )