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March 24, 2013

Events revolving around the house must accommodate the horse, dog, cat, wild bird (a number of turkeys even come to pick away under the feeders) and youth feeding schedule. Now I know what my mother must have felt like managing and organizing a house with nine children! No wonder my parents were resistant and I was not allowed to own a dog. Gerbils, guinea pigs, rats, chicks hatched from the incubator and field mice were the extent of our pets until I begged and pleaded to get a puppy when I turned 12 which was then hit by a car and had to be put to sleep after a short nine months.

This is just a brand new kind of me! The entire day was spent plunking out a chronological resume for my employment search. It is laborious to generate a long list of tasks for each job I have ever wrangled in my life (working since the age of 12) and stretching my brain cells to recall the names of my supervisors let alone company addresses, phone numbers not to mention the job descriptions. Cut and paste from the web makes things a lot easier than coming up with job duties and the full scope of said positions. As they say, it is a full-time job trying to land a full-time job! The majority of my weekend has been unabatedly positioned in front of my laptop with my lame foot propped up, warmish wake up! herbal tea by my side and inadvertently scanning the kitchen clock anticipating up-and-coming feeding times. I gobble grapefruit, apples, bananas, nuts, remains from the popcorn bag, yogurt and blueberries to ward off boredom and lethargy. Already chased the dust bunnies around the house with the swifter so they are no longer a distraction.

The on-line individual corporate applications are exceedingly tedious, tear my hair out time-consuming and make me parched. I toggle back and forth to obtain information from the internet, control “c” and control “v” from my multiple resume revisions and cover letters and send out pleading inquiries for current contact information from long ago fellow detainees. I cannot expect the scanner to look beyond appearances to discover I am the best candidate for the post. Simply have to buckle down and do the work! Drat.