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Wandering out from the Dark and Lurky place I've been hanging in the last several weeks to request some job slash knowing-the-best-path-ma. I have an interview tomorrow for a job that would be the same field, but looks like more responsibility (therefore, more money to my way of thinking...). I've been increasingly frustrated at my current position because of the lack of use my skills are getting. I've told friends I worried my brain would atrophy, and that the only good thing was the spare time to spend online - then that was lost to even more mindless administrative crap (filing, data entry, scanning sheaves of paper). I tend to fear and resist change, but this one, on the face of it at least, looks good.
So, job-ma, and wisdom-ma, at about 3:30pm board time on Tuesday would be highly appreciated.
Just got the news that the duplex we were renting half of is condemned.
Not a big shock at this point, just another piece of information.
Someday I will post somewhere other than this thread again...
Requesting the all powerful Buffista health~ma for my mother. She is still in the hospital. A recent blood test came back with odd results so they are rerunning it this morning to verify the results.
A touch of sanity~ma for me would not be amiss either.
Mom-Update.
The blood test came back with the same odd results. So, now they are playing trial and error at correcting the problem. Does not give me warm fuzzies. I'm headed off to go visit her.
She knows about my invisible internet friends and was glad I got to spend some time with a few of them last night.
Please keep the ~ma flowing.
I wander thru from lurkiland for another request for -ma. I backed into another car in a very busy, very tiny parking lot today. The other driver was very nice, and totally willing to give me an estimate and try to take care of this ourselves. It's a very small dent to the driver's side door, with a schmear of black from my bumper as an accent. But the car that I hit...a Honda? No. A Ford? No. I hit a damn JAGUAR! (My last accident (6ish yrs ago) was me backing into a Mercedes. I'm not sure why my truck is so bent on taking out cars that I can't afford the replacement parts for).
Therefore, (cheaply)pop-out-able dent, buff-out-able schmear-ma would be greatly appreciated. Gaaah. Thanks.
Many of you know this, but it might as well be public.
I'm getting a divorce. Yes, it's been coming, and no, it's not really a surprise, but it's no less painful or heartbreaking. It's complicated and difficult and more than a little hellish.
I don't really feel up to phone calls or even IMing much, but online support or just coping~ma is always appreciated. I'm more than a bit broken.
Thanks.
Job-ma worked. I got the job I interviewed for and can now add the word "Senior" to my job title. I release it into the void for Cass, Trudy and all other job seekers.
Ahem.
Gothic Charm School is now open!
My family's restaurant was robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning. My father and sister are OK, but the jackass got the money bag. At this point, the police have suspects, but no hard evidence.
Some catch-the-SOB-with-concrete-evidence~ma would be appreciated.
