Have I ever mentioned my disdain for job applications? If I have, let me now apologize now for the forthcoming rant, if not, my apologies may still be necessary...
I HATE APPLYING FOR JOBS!
I absolutely, unequivocally HATE job applications. I hate talking about myself, (shocker, considering that's pretty much what I do hear all the time, shh), I hate entering in the same information over and over again, and I hate the fact that I have 14 pages of boring facts to convince someone to hire me.
I worked in HR for almost two years, I know that perfectly adequate people can be tossed by the wayside for some sycophant who "looks good on paper" but actually turns out to be a patient-abusing, prescription drug thieving, license-revoked freak. (Yeah, so I worked in HR at the hospital, and that's my only frame of reference, humor me for a little while).
I understand that hundreds of ridiculously unqualified people apply for positions in which they cannot actually pronounce the title, much less of which they can actually complete the requirements.
I understand that online applications make it easier for HR personnel to weed out these crazies and more quickly focus on the "right person for the job", but I HATE job applications.
I think I'm losing my train of thought here and will therefore end my crazy rant before it turns into complete nonsense, (too late?).
In case you did not catch on by my exaggerated use of caps lock and exclamation marks I'm a little frustrated at the moment. I've known for months now that I would have a difficult time finding a job as I've done alternative certification instead of completing an actual teaching program. I've known that I most likely would not be contacted for an interview or be offered a job until later in the summer.
Well, turns out knowing something and being able to actually apply that knowledge; two separate issues. I was fine until this week. I had all my wedding trips to keep me preoccupied and then two weeks of laying by the pool and on the couch doing nothing. Then suddenly I woke up one afternoon and realized the end of June is here, which according to the centuries old progression of the calendar means that next week is July. Somehow the realization of this has turned me into a crazy woman, (more so than normal, now, don't get smart).
So suddenly I am FREAKING out. I'm stressed that I'm not going to get offered a job. Stressed into thinking maybe I didn't explore all my options, maybe applying approximately 14 school districts was not enough. What if no one calls me for a job. What are we going to do? Yes, you may no envision my spiraling decent into the certifiably crazy realm.
Once again I would like to apologize for involving you all in my craziness. I feel much better. Just in time too because coming up this week- FBC VBS week. I love VBS! I love the decorating, I love the cooky songs, and I think it's really cool to teach the kiddos about Jesus. This year I'm helping in a three-year-old class room, which is a little younger than my norm, but it should be fun at best and at the very least interesting!
Have a great weekend,
Jennifer
PS, I would like to go to Destin like seemingly everyone else on Facebook the past few weeks. If you are going, can you be bribed into accepting a stowaway? I have short legs and pack light. :)
6.15.2009
Things to Keep in Mind When Selling Your Home
As an homage to the month we've spent house hunting and the 26 houses we've viewed, I've decided to compile a list of things to consider when building a house or trying to sell your house. In no particular order...
1. DO clean your house or hire someone else to clean it, especially when it's obvious that it's been a while, (if ever), since you've cleaned your house. DO NOT let mildew grow on your bathroom doors, an inch of dust to build up in your a/c vents, and throw your dirty undies in the floor of your bathroom, and decide to have an open house.
2. DO NOT paint all your crown molding gray because you heard that buyers like neutral colors better than "bright" colors. Like white.
3. DO NOT claim that a room is a bedroom when there is no door in the doorway, no closet, and you clearly use the room as storage/junk room.
4. DO NOT paint every window in your house shut.
5. Speaking of windows, DO NOT build a house with 5' windows that only open 8", they're virtually useless.
6. DO NOT build a house with a kitchen to one side and laundry room to the other side of the FOYER. No one wants to walk in your house and see your dirty dishes/dirty laundry first thing.
7. DO NOT color coordinate the paint and carpet in each room of your house. Rooms with pink walls do not need pink carpet, rooms with green walls do not need green carpet, repeat as necessary.
8. Along the same lines, DO NOT have a "theme" to each room in your house. Just don't.
9. If building a house, DO NOT put the laundry room outside in a storage room off the open-air carport. Some lazy people throw clothes in the dryer instead of ironing them, and may get ready in their unmentionables/shorty robe and run back and forth through the house putting outfits in and out of the dryer every morning and perhaps might not want to run outside in said unmentionables/shorty robe for the sake of not wanting to blind the neighbors. Of course this is a totally hypothetical situation I have concocted for the sake of this list. Of course.
10. If you live in an older home and are going to redo 3/4 of the electrical wiring, just go ahead and DO the remaining 1/4 too. It just makes good sense people.
11. If you have to turn sideways to walk through your "master bath" to get the the shower in a dark corner, it's questionable if it qualifies as a bathroom much less a master bath.
12. If you renovated the house in 1994, it is NOT newly renovated. If you renovated the house in 1997 with materials you bought in the clearance aisle and are probably from 1994, same rules apply.
13. DO NOT let your incredibly smelly, obese bulldog lounge on a sofa directly in front of the door in which you want potential buyers to come into your house. With a fan blowing his stink right in your face upon waking in the door.
14. A room that you have to walk through to get to another room, (as the only way to get to said other room), and that you currently use as a dining room, is NOT a bedroom. Even if it does have a closet.
15. Monochromatic bathrooms are NOT cool. In fact it may make buyers a little nauseous to see blue counter tops, sink, tile, tub, flooring, wallpaper, and toilet. Painting the cabinets white does little to ease the nausea, especially when you can see the white paint chipping off to reveal blue underneath. Same rules apply when you substitute "blue" for "pink" in the other bathroom in the house.
16. DO make sure your front door actually opens. You're not fooling people by having them go in through the garage.
17. If you're selling a particularly awful house, not even the stack of mint-condition vintage 60's and 70's records you left in the closet will work as a bribe to get someone to purchase the house.
18. Make sure there are no hot-orange glowing pipes in your attic.
19. NEVER, EVER dedicate an entire room in your house to OU!
20. If you know absolutely nothing about painting, sawing, hammering, tiling, DO NOT attempt to renovate your entire house based on a show you saw last night on HGTV. We're on to you and the fact that you didn't hire a professional.
21. DO NOT use a different kind/style/color of wood laminate flooring in every room of your house, just because you heard buyers like wood floors. This is espeically true when you can stand in one room and see 4 kinds of flooring that look NOTHING alike.
22. DO NOT SMOKE IN YOUR HOUSE!
23. DO NOT install two sets of french doors in your 8x10 dining room that also has a large window. Doing so leaves you with approximate 4 square feet of usuable space.
24. If you are above the age of 60 do not custom build a new home to mimic your former home, and decide to sell 3 years later. Even if your home is only 3 years old, it feels at least 20, and will have to be completely rennovated.
25. And finally, if you're going to spend the money to advertise your open house in the paper, make sure someone is actually there to show the house during the times listed!!
1. DO clean your house or hire someone else to clean it, especially when it's obvious that it's been a while, (if ever), since you've cleaned your house. DO NOT let mildew grow on your bathroom doors, an inch of dust to build up in your a/c vents, and throw your dirty undies in the floor of your bathroom, and decide to have an open house.
2. DO NOT paint all your crown molding gray because you heard that buyers like neutral colors better than "bright" colors. Like white.
3. DO NOT claim that a room is a bedroom when there is no door in the doorway, no closet, and you clearly use the room as storage/junk room.
4. DO NOT paint every window in your house shut.
5. Speaking of windows, DO NOT build a house with 5' windows that only open 8", they're virtually useless.
6. DO NOT build a house with a kitchen to one side and laundry room to the other side of the FOYER. No one wants to walk in your house and see your dirty dishes/dirty laundry first thing.
7. DO NOT color coordinate the paint and carpet in each room of your house. Rooms with pink walls do not need pink carpet, rooms with green walls do not need green carpet, repeat as necessary.
8. Along the same lines, DO NOT have a "theme" to each room in your house. Just don't.
9. If building a house, DO NOT put the laundry room outside in a storage room off the open-air carport. Some lazy people throw clothes in the dryer instead of ironing them, and may get ready in their unmentionables/shorty robe and run back and forth through the house putting outfits in and out of the dryer every morning and perhaps might not want to run outside in said unmentionables/shorty robe for the sake of not wanting to blind the neighbors. Of course this is a totally hypothetical situation I have concocted for the sake of this list. Of course.
10. If you live in an older home and are going to redo 3/4 of the electrical wiring, just go ahead and DO the remaining 1/4 too. It just makes good sense people.
11. If you have to turn sideways to walk through your "master bath" to get the the shower in a dark corner, it's questionable if it qualifies as a bathroom much less a master bath.
12. If you renovated the house in 1994, it is NOT newly renovated. If you renovated the house in 1997 with materials you bought in the clearance aisle and are probably from 1994, same rules apply.
13. DO NOT let your incredibly smelly, obese bulldog lounge on a sofa directly in front of the door in which you want potential buyers to come into your house. With a fan blowing his stink right in your face upon waking in the door.
14. A room that you have to walk through to get to another room, (as the only way to get to said other room), and that you currently use as a dining room, is NOT a bedroom. Even if it does have a closet.
15. Monochromatic bathrooms are NOT cool. In fact it may make buyers a little nauseous to see blue counter tops, sink, tile, tub, flooring, wallpaper, and toilet. Painting the cabinets white does little to ease the nausea, especially when you can see the white paint chipping off to reveal blue underneath. Same rules apply when you substitute "blue" for "pink" in the other bathroom in the house.
16. DO make sure your front door actually opens. You're not fooling people by having them go in through the garage.
17. If you're selling a particularly awful house, not even the stack of mint-condition vintage 60's and 70's records you left in the closet will work as a bribe to get someone to purchase the house.
18. Make sure there are no hot-orange glowing pipes in your attic.
19. NEVER, EVER dedicate an entire room in your house to OU!
20. If you know absolutely nothing about painting, sawing, hammering, tiling, DO NOT attempt to renovate your entire house based on a show you saw last night on HGTV. We're on to you and the fact that you didn't hire a professional.
21. DO NOT use a different kind/style/color of wood laminate flooring in every room of your house, just because you heard buyers like wood floors. This is espeically true when you can stand in one room and see 4 kinds of flooring that look NOTHING alike.
22. DO NOT SMOKE IN YOUR HOUSE!
23. DO NOT install two sets of french doors in your 8x10 dining room that also has a large window. Doing so leaves you with approximate 4 square feet of usuable space.
24. If you are above the age of 60 do not custom build a new home to mimic your former home, and decide to sell 3 years later. Even if your home is only 3 years old, it feels at least 20, and will have to be completely rennovated.
25. And finally, if you're going to spend the money to advertise your open house in the paper, make sure someone is actually there to show the house during the times listed!!
6.11.2009
No Pictures :(
I have reemerged from my crazy busy week, and am amazingly still alive! The weddings were absolutely BEAUTIFUL and I would post pictures, except I can't get the cd from Patterson's to work. I am EXTREMELY irritated by this. So unfortunately this will be a photo-less post.
I did want to share that despite my premonitions to the contrary, I somehow managed to pass the TExES test. I am extremely excited by this because I was not looking forward to taking it again. I literally called my husband, sure I had failed, and told him that before I took the test again, I needed a prescription for Ritalin or Adderall. I just cannot sit still for 5 hours!! That test is pure torture for me!!!
That's all for now, I have to return to cleaning house because we're having people over tomorrow. I've been working on cleaning, rearranging, and halfway redecorating our sad looking master bedroom for the past few days. It is now spotless cleaned, and starting to look pretty good. I still want to pick up a few more pieces to finish out the decorating part of it though. Anyway, because I've been working on it so much, I'd neglected the rest of the house a little. So, go figure, tonight a friend of our's called to see if she could stop by tomorrow morning. Is it one of Murphy's Laws that when your house gets messy people come over??? It's not that bad, just not company clean. I'm sure you know what I mean.
Goodnight all,
Jennifer
I did want to share that despite my premonitions to the contrary, I somehow managed to pass the TExES test. I am extremely excited by this because I was not looking forward to taking it again. I literally called my husband, sure I had failed, and told him that before I took the test again, I needed a prescription for Ritalin or Adderall. I just cannot sit still for 5 hours!! That test is pure torture for me!!!
That's all for now, I have to return to cleaning house because we're having people over tomorrow. I've been working on cleaning, rearranging, and halfway redecorating our sad looking master bedroom for the past few days. It is now spotless cleaned, and starting to look pretty good. I still want to pick up a few more pieces to finish out the decorating part of it though. Anyway, because I've been working on it so much, I'd neglected the rest of the house a little. So, go figure, tonight a friend of our's called to see if she could stop by tomorrow morning. Is it one of Murphy's Laws that when your house gets messy people come over??? It's not that bad, just not company clean. I'm sure you know what I mean.
Goodnight all,
Jennifer
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