I'm trying to find a job. We, for the first time in a long time, really need for me to be working. A job that I have been really praying would work out, didn't. So I'm back to the drawing board... and it's hard. Really hard. So many companies do their application process online... which I understand, it helps weed out the applicants. But, for me, who has moved every 3 years for the last 15 years, and has stayed home while my husband served our country and I raised our little ones... when the applications ask for your most recent employment... its really tricky to phrase volunteer experience (even if it was heavy responsibility, grueling at times, and used more of your faculties than you knew existed) into sounding as applicable as an actual "job". And so I went to the mall today, thinking perhaps the face-to-face meeting with store managers would help me. And boy, did I have serious deja' vue' as I walked through the mall... I felt I was 16 again, begging for a job! (I did get an on-the-spot interview, though! So not bad) But... Even though it's tricky right now, in this down economy with the unemployment so high... He is bigger.... God is bigger. He is bigger than this. He knows the needs of our family, and the needs of my heart... and He will provide.
2. What's your treat of choice?
Glass of Chardonnay. Chocolate. Yum.
3. Did you/will you carve a jack-o-lantern this month? Which real (living or dead) or fictional 'Jack' would you most like to meet in person? Why?
Oh yes, we will be carving our pumpkins, most likely on Thursday - since we are all too dang busy to do it as a family before hand!
I would love to meet C.S. Lewis, who was called "Jack" by his friends... what an amazing man!
4. In your opinion, what's the grossest sounding word in the English language?
phlegm
5. When did your heart last skip a beat?
Last Friday, when my teenager didn't come home from school. He takes the city bus home from school, and when he was late, and didn't pick up his phone... well, you know how it is... I've read too many Readers Digest stories - my mind immediately jumped to the worst scenarios. So I retraced his route - and found him at school... at a marching practice he had forgotten to tell me about. I take that back - he SAYS he reminded me of it. I have no recollection. I stand by my motto - if it's not on the calendar... it's not happening! So yeah... my heart skipped a few beats there for a while.
6. Monster Mash by Bobby 'Boris' Picket, Michael Jackson's Thriller, Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon, or Ray Parker Jr.'s Ghostbusters...your favorite 'scary' tune?
As a child of the 80's, I've got to go with Thriller!
7. It was a dark and stormy night when______________________________.
the shots rang out across the hills. As firefight lit up the mountainside, the roar of engines came in from behind... a reassuring rumble of protection... big brother coming in like an eagle, dropping its flares of admonishment... its strafing bullets chasing the cowards back into their caves, providing the cover we need, their thunder reminding us that we are protected... we are in this fight together, and they have our back... we are all safe.
8. Insert your own random thought here.
