Even though the economy is still in trouble and jobs are hard to come by, you still need to keep your head up and keep looking for work. The unemployment rate is higher than it has been in quite a while, but you won’t find a job if you don’t look for one. If your looking for a job in the Philly area, maybe you can get one of the available philadelphia airport jobs. Good luck and good hunting!
Archive for April, 2010
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Thursday, April 29th, 2010Snickers recipe
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Sometimes there are webpages that you happen across that just make your day. If you’ve ever wanted to make a truly unique treat to bring in to work that you know everybody will love, try this recipe for homemade Snickers. You already know that everybody likes Snickers bars, and you know that no one else will be bringing homemade Snickers to the party. You may want to test the recipe out once or twice to make sure everything turns out alright before bringing your creations to the fest.
Online gifts
Thursday, April 29th, 2010The internet has really gotten its claws into just about every human interaction there is. With Mother’s Day fast approaching (less than two weeks people), you better start looking for the perfect gift. Or at least flowers. You can even find gift baskets online to send to your mom in thanks to all of the little things that she’s done over the years.
Young MacGyver
Thursday, April 29th, 2010The world’s opportunity to watch “Young MacGyver” the TV show has come and gone. All that we are left with is the pilot that has managed to make it’s way onto the internet. With the MacGruber movie coming out next month and producers talking about making a true MacGyver movie soon, it’s probably a good thing that Young MacGyver never saw the light of day. (Only the dark glow of the computer screen.)
Title Me Pink
Monday, April 19th, 2010Oh the dreaded blackheads. Unlike a normal zit that will go away at some point (probably), the blackhead can linger for years. So you try scrubs and creams and all sorts of laser derm ablasion or whatever that procedure is called and it does no good. So you wrap your arms around your face and try to get rid of it from 18 different directions while looking in the mirror and it’s then that you see the 1000 other blackheads that you would never have noticed if you had just left the first one alone. And you cry in dispari.
What’s that you say? You don’t. That’s just me you say.
Oh.
Well of course I don’t do that – I saw it on TV or I read it in a book but I don’t do that.
I’m going to go away now.
A New Tax Bracket and a New Social Class
Monday, April 19th, 2010I’m updating my finances and through some strange method of balancing the books I have managed to have enough in my checking account to cover the bill to the tax man without dipping into my savings. I’ve checked twice (and will probably check a dozen more times) but somehow my cash flow is looking…good.
Now I’ve jinxed it and some bill I forgot about will materialize and have to be paid immediately in order to keep living – like a breathing air bill or something like that. And a part of me hopes that happens anyway because there’s no way I live in a reality where I can write a check and expect it to clear with no problem. That would mean I’m *gasp* upper middle class! Ich!
Let the Good Times Roll
Friday, April 16th, 2010The thing I think I will dislike the most about moving back to the old hood will be the job hunt. The crazy things employers expect you to remember for and employment screening are just super taxing on my memory. I end up spending days trying to fill out an application so I can dig up all my previous addresses, all my previous employers and supervisors names (some are closed and I can’t remember what ‘Steve’s’ last name was – or if I even ever knew.
I suppose I should put a positive spin on this – it will be very nostalgic.
Truth and Lies – Harry Potter Style
Friday, April 16th, 2010My glasses dismantled themselves this morning while I was trying to clean the lenses. I was on my way out the door and didn’t have time to reassemble them so I grabbed my backup pair and now – 14 hours later – I am finally getting over the nausea induced by wearing an 8 year old eye glass prescription. I’m also getting over the embarrassment of having to wear a pair of glasses that garnered both more painful truths and more lies than I have ever heard uttered toward me in a single day.
“You look like Harry Potter” (True – except with orange rimmed glasses.)
“New glasses! They look great!” (TOTAL lie – we’re talking about ORANGE RIMMED GLASSES here).
At least it has taught me the character of those around me.
Sofa arms
Thursday, April 8th, 2010If anybody sees this idea and wants to move forward with actualizing the concept, please contact me so I can get a cut of the cash. Some furniture designer out in the world would make himself (and me, remember me) a whole lot of cash by designing a couch or sofa with arms that were designed to be sat upon. How’s that for contemporary sofas. The idea would take the world by storm. Everybody likes to sit on sofa arms. Someone should redesign them to handle the load. Genius.
Too bad I’m not a furniture designer.
Movie Addict Desperation
Thursday, April 8th, 2010The true torture associated with my movie watching addiction is my inability to remember the release dates. It was easier when I worked at a movie theatre and the information was basically shoved down my throat week after week. Now though I manage to always get excited about seeing the movie a week earlier than it will come out. Which means I usually end up seeing a desperation movie. It hasn’t gotten so bad that I’ll watch something like “Ninja Assassin” twice and pay $9 each time, but I will watch a movie I really think I won’t like just so I can get a fix.
Just remember, it isn’t a problem unless other people have a problem with you doing it. Or something like that.
Those pesky zits
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Now we all have to deal with them, but none of us have to like them. Those pesky zits will come and go, but there is no reason to admit defeat and hide yourself away for all time. If you do the proper research and find the best zit cream available online. Good luck in your battle and may your face be as clear as your forearms. (As long as you have truly zit-free forearms.)
My Favorite Commercial
Thursday, April 8th, 2010My favorite commercial is the one with the guy on the horse. Sadly I don’t know what the commercial is for or I would do my civic duty and help the company that made the commercial by giving them some free advertising. Instead I will just tell you that while the guy says “Lookatyourmannowlookatme nowlookatyourmannowlookatme” I actually do that and then I crack up. I’ve done this at least a dozen times and I think each time I actually find it funnier than the last.
I haven’t gotten this much of a tickle from a commercial since Richard Dean Anderson reprised his role as MacGyver in a commercial. But them my life gotten pretty pathetic commercial wise lately – I almost asked my husband to stick with a commercial until I knew it’s story line today.
No Xplode?
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Yeah, that’s right. I didn’t know what No Xplode was either. But it really is a new pill to improve focus and start you off on a great workout. Before trying anything new, make sure to do your research, find out what’s in it, and see if it’s appropriate for you. You can even get some great no xplode reviews online to see what it is all about. I know that I have problems staying focused on my workout. Maybe this is the right way for me to start my next workout so I can stay focused on what I am doing. (Thanks, Yoda)
Estimation in the Hands of Amateurs
Thursday, April 8th, 2010The count down to the last day of school had begun for my kids. Somehow we have 2 months to go, no vacation days left and yet that only equates to 30 days of school. Now I’m good at math but this seems off to me and maybe you see why. It doesn’t seem like we should be so horrible mislead by a time honored tradition of estimation. I’m rounding the 2 months by only a week and a half (and not taking into account weekends at all) and it’s doubling them amount of time in school.
Weird, tragic, inaccurate estimation…
Solution in a pill
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Well, not really.
You’re never going to find the automatic and perfect answer to all of your problems in one little pill. (What a curiously American idea!) But the right pill may just help you in your quest to lose some of the extra inches and pounds that have strangely accumulated in all of the wrong places. Those fat loss pills won’t work miracles but work with proper diet and exercise to help you conquer the bathroom scale.
Alice in Wonderland
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Another movie bites the dust. I put it off as long as I could, hoping that the movie “Date Night” would come out and I could go watch that but it has taken too long and I needed a free popcorn fix. I went and saw “Alice in Wonderland” and I learned *SPOILER ALERT* that I don’t need to get married to find fulfillment, that “watching” someone will prevent them from cheating and that talking to someone will cure a person’s schizoid behavior. And that I should definitely turn down Johhny Depp if he asks me to stay in Underland.
I would like to say that my favorite part was when Alice used the severed heads floating in the moat as lily pads and walked right across the water (very Biblical – and very bad for kids in my opinion).
Burn that fat
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Burning fats and oils was always an efficient way to light and heat your home in times long past, but today we are all more interested in burning the fat that has collected around our mid-section and back side. The best fat burners are the right exercise and diet. Now, the right fat burning pills may also help you out as long as you make sure that they actually work (some don’t) and that any side effects are ones that you can handle. Now, go forth and be thinner!
Time Travel Writing
Thursday, April 8th, 2010My son is a writing genius. He managed to incorporate the ancient folklore of ‘Cinderella’ and the modern tale of ‘Back to the Future’. Although quite good his real genius lies in his observation in writing about time travel. “Mom”, he said “Writing about time travel can be REALLY confusing.” I think this very sentiment has been expressed by others (including Captain Janeway).
Zit Cream
Thursday, April 8th, 2010You’d think that when I got older I wouldn’t be in the position of having to keep my skin clear using acne cleansers but that was just a childish dream apparently.
Let me tell you some of the horrible things I’ve tried in my life – rubbing alcohol, liquid notrogen, walnuts and apricots – the list goes on. Maybe I’m expected to give up chocolate but if that’s the case, we can just forget it – it’s never going to happen.
A Dance with Dragons – Waiting
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010How true, Tom Petty.
The waiting is the hardest part. The way-ay-ay-ting is the harrrrrrrrrrdest par-art.
I hope Martin can finish A Dance with Dragons soon, but understand that he’ll do it in his own time. But he has been working on ADWD since 1999 (it got too big, and chapters were split off to become A Feast for Crows). 11 years is a long time for a book though.
Thankfully, I know that he won’t pull a Cameron and wait over a decade to drop nature love-fest. Can you imagine James Cameron writing ADWD. Bran the cripple would warg into one of the children of the forest and fight Dany, Cersei, and all of the humans to save the world from environmental destruction. Along the way many predictable things would happen. We all know Martin doesn’t stoop to use tropes and cliches.
I tried the Wheel of Time series years ago. After everyone split up and joined the circus, I couldn’t go on. I don’t CARE what EVERY person clothes are made of. After reading Martin I can never go back to the tedium of Jordan.