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The First & Last Thing I Will Ever Say About This

At least some of you out there who keep up with this blog on a regular basis know that I’ve been searching for my “dream job” since I finished my MBA in December. Let me just say that it’s been 6 very long months of thinking that I was going to have to sell my house and move to Chigago or somewhere out west to find a job that would present the kind of challenges, atmosphere, and work in general that I could respect and wanted to be a part of.

I sent out possibly 70 resumes, interviewed with five companies in 3 different cities, turned down two job offers, and started to think that maybe I was setting my standards a little too high. So I know what you’re going to say when I tell you that I found a company that embraces both the business and creative sides of people, that creates very unique solutions to common business challenges, and who’s home office is located less than the length of a football field away from the building The Family Business is located in, (which incidently is also about 15 steps away from the place where I get my hair cut)… What??  Yeah. That’s what I said.

You can bet your ass that when they offered me a job I did the I-just-landed-my-dream-job happy dance throughout my entire house, scaring both cats and resulting in a very bewildered look from MysteryMan.

So, as of the 15th I’ll be starting a job which I fully expect to kick my butt, challenge my mind, and allow me to do two of the things I love best every day: Create things, and solve problems. But, having vicariously learned the lesson from many that blogging about work is a bad idea, and firmly beliving myself that it’s best to keep a little bit of distance between the powertool-weilding-badass side of myself and the professional “I-wear-shoes-with-heels” side of myself… this is both the first and the last thing you will likely ever hear about that job on this website.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming…

That Looks Familiar

I’ve been promising for at least a month (maybe two) that since I started using the open-source version of WP for this site that I would rebuild the side bar, and more importantly, blogroll, that you now see to the right. It’s totally back, but if you’re looking at it and are like, hey, where’s my site?? Just leave me a comment or shoot me an email and I’ll add it to the list.

The project tracker is still a little wonky, and I’m working on it. I know, I know.

I am still trying to work out a few kinks with the templates, so if things don’t look right to you I’m not going to be offended if you drop me a line and tell me to quit messing with the WP code because its screwing up your DIYdiva experience. I’m totally rusty when it comes to the CSS and PHP involved here. Also, if anyone knows anything about the WP Related Posts plugin and know where this code goes in the templates: <?php wp_related_posts(); ?>  Any advice is appreciated.

Seriously, it’s This Long

Picture me gesturing approximately a mile wide with my arms, and that’s how long the list of things I need to get done in the next two weeks is. Not that that’s unusual. Most of it is oranizational, some of it is preemtive, and about half of it has to do with that thing I keep saying I’m going to tell you about but haven’t yet…

And yeah, I’m still keeping you in suspense. I have a mean streak a mile wide, I know.

Things I Haven’t Been Talking About

Last week Aimeroo was talking about her Losing It Challenge and was all “How are you guys doing with your goals?” And I felt her eyeballs staring right into my forehead, because I know I haven’t done a Weight Loss Challenge post in several weeks.

My current weight is 121.5. That means I’ve raised $15 dollars for Nature’s Nursery and lost 7.5 lbs overall. It’s also the exact same thing I weighed the last time I posted about this a month ago. So you haven’t been missing out on anything, and for a minute there I just got sick of talking about it every other post.

What we can say is that I’ve become very good at maintaining, and have probably hit equilibrium, but MysteryMan and I are starting 30 Alcohol-Free days next week so we’ll see what happens when I’m not consuming all those beer-calories every week.  

That’s All Folks!

Which is a total lie. There was something else I wanted to tell you, but between the last paragraph and this one my cats brought a sparrow into the house and released it in to the living room and all four of us circled the couch about 18 times chasing after eachother (except for the bird who was flying for his life) before I could restore order. Now I forget what I was going to say.

Never a dull moment here on Garrison Road.

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