Crazy Week!

Let me start off by saying, DAMN! I love Diet Rock Star =-)!! That stuff just makes me one happy, stoked girl, and it makes your pee fluorescent which is always amusing =-).

Now to the other stuff...WOW - what a week! Saturday to Saturday was probably one of the most eventful single weeks (aside from unexpected deaths) that I have had in ages. The week includes getting a new (well used, but you know, new to me =-p) car, having one of THE most insulting interactions at work ever, a job interview, and a meeting with a friend about the business venture we plan to embark on. Quite busy!!!!

The car thing happened super fast - we saw it on the lot Friday afternoon, got the VIN # Friday night to check it out, and Saturday by noon I was driving off the lot with the apprehension that comes from the financial guy making it abundantly clear that since we didn't get the extra warranty the second my tires touch the road, anything that happens is completely my burden. Needless to say I hovered at the edge of the lot for a bit before I had the balls to keep going - haha. It all happened so fast that when I visited a friend later that afternoon I couldn't even remember the car model (insert an image of me blushing for being such a "girl" but I did know the color - haha).

As for the work interaction, I'm not really going to go into details - but I was pissed enough that I will probably take it to the next level to voice my concern over how the higher-ups handled it, which was unacceptable. But no, it's not anything where I am or will be in trouble, but it's something that needs to be addressed.

The interview - well, that was my first interview in quite a while and I feel it went pretty well. I was referred by someone else, and it took them just shy of a lifetime to get back to him, so I don't think I'll hear anything anytime soon, but I know they'll remember me - haha. The interview also required a presentation, and the thing I chose to do had the person who referred me telling me "No you CAN'T do that. They will think you are mocking them" But I didn't listen to him and I went forth with my unconventional, but entertaining presentation and I know they were highly entertained. Mind you, I probably wasn't supposed to have as my goal "entertaining" them, but we all had a good time and if ultimately that ends up being the overall purpose of me on that day then so be it. I myself was amused and pleased and felt quite happy as I left, because now, whether I get hired or not I can say that I went into an interview for Corporate America and I did something unexpected and fun =-).

The final piece of my busy and eventful week was an IHOP meeting with a long-time friend about the business venture we are getting ready to embark on. It's something I have been encouraging him to do for quite some time, because he has a real talent for this sort of thing, but he knew my background and told me he wanted me to do it with him. I don't have as much experience in this as he does, so he will be the primary figure in our business, but I will be the secondary figure (hey - there's only two of us, so it would have sucked if I was anything less than secondary - haha =-p), but it is exciting (and intimidating) to be embarking on something of this magnitude.

So that rounds out my crazy week. You can go from having a reasonably uneventful existence to being inundated with tons of things, when it rains, it pours they say. During this week a friend of mine experienced a major loss and another friend announced that she was pregnant - life can be so crazy with all of the ups and downs it throws at us. Sometimes it's strange to contemplate just how many people are on this planet of ours and how every single person has a world of drama (good and bad) surrounding them at every moment.

As I wind this up I am sad to say I have slurped through almost my entire 16 beautiful ounces of Diet Rock Star =-(. When/if I ever become super financially stable I'm going to treat myself to a bulk purchase of Diet Rock Star at Costco. This shit's just too good to live without =-p.

And a wise man once said...

The world is pretty well-informed about my struggles to obtain what I perceive to be a "Real" job. The fact that this has been quite a lengthy struggle is no secret to the masses. A recent conversation with a friend, who has a different struggle, but who was similarly lamenting how it was so easy for other people to achieve the very thing that he was after, made me think about the people I know who have had recent job success. In the last few months I have had a total of FIVE friends or family members who, with only casual effort, managed to experience positive job karma. FIVE PEOPLE!!! Four of those were new jobs and one was an unsolicited promotion. All of the job-seekers were already positioned in their jobs, most of which were reasonably secure and were looking to see what might pop up. And the one person of those that was actively trying to find a new job only had to look for a couple of months, which somehow this person thought was a long time (ha!).

So I've been just a bit stunned that, the one thing I've been searching for for so long has come so easily for all of these other people. The other day I was discussing this with my father. My Dad - the one who always has faith in my potential, even when the rest of the world fails to see it. So he told me my struggle reminded him of a fable or a tale he had heard or read about at some time in the past. There was a village or a land or a society or some such thing where everyone lived in bliss. Every aspect of their lives was beautiful and perfect - their work, their relationships....every element of their existence. But there was a price for this bliss. For all of the people to live such wonderful and blessed lives, one child had to be tormented endlessly. Occasionally people couldn't stand the thought of one child being tormented, and those people would walk away from their utopian existences because they couldn't reconcile the perfection of their lives being at the expense of another being.

When he finished telling me this tale, I was waiting to see what sage words of wisdom my father would next impart. Here's what he said: "Maybe you are that person for all of your friends." My jaw dropped as I said "WHAT?!?!?!" with disbelief. He started laughing and said "Not what you expected me to say, is it?" The I started laughing, because DUDE now even my Dad thinks I'm the tormented child of the job world