I went back to the testing clinic after a few cups of coffee ( Read more... )

Throwing up at four in the morning really isn't a good hydration strategy to prepare for a drug test ( Read more... )

So, that job I thought I was never going to get?  The one where I almost cried after leaving the building?  I'm probably going to get it ( Read more... )

I just dreamed that I worked at Kmart again. Here are the highlights ( Read more... )

I think that I killed my chances at a job today.  I applied at Ziggy's, a home hardware store with lots of expensive and shiny things.  I was sent to the break room to fill out the application, which included two sections I didn't expect.

The first was a basic math aptitude test.  Division, multiplication, fractions, area of a circle, and some way ( Read more... )

Sit down, children, and listen to the story of The Cake That Was Meant to Be.

One night a girl named Megan saw a picture of a delicious cake on TV.  “I will make that cake,” Megan said.  “It will have two layers, and a fluffy filling, and frosting, and coconut sprinkled on top.  And it will be good.”  So she looked up a recipe and went to the ( Read more... )

I just had a bad experience involving a wood burning stove, a hatchet, gloves, a broom and lighting a candle.

You Are an Irish Coffee
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The vacationing couple returned from their cruise yesterday, ending my housesitting shift, and Sandi arranged to drop the money off with me at the espresso shop in church this morning.  To my surprise, she handed me a black bag (my initial thought was porn?) with several souvenirs from Mexico inside, along with a cute--but not syrupy sweet--card ( Read more... )

This is my second night of a six night stay-over housesitting stint for a family from my parents' church.   I'm loving it.

Bosco, the 28-pound orange tiger cat, is diabetic and needs an insulin shot twice a day, when his litterbox is scooped and he gets breakfast and dinner.  Stinker, a massive black lab, gets fed in the morning, let out when I ( Read more... )