Funniest job post of the day:

NEED CLOSERS, NOT POSERS ... $2K+ WEEKLY!!!

Haha. Man, some of these employers are really funny. They want excellent or highly motivated, but they offer peanuts. Give me two more months and I'll probably be willing to apply.

Still looking.

It will rain

I love the rain ... from indoors. I can't remember playing in the rain as a kid. I think I had too healthy a fear of my mother's disapproval to be an all out dancing in the rain kind of kid, but I know I loved jumping in puddles. I didn't get to play in the rainfall, but I sure benefited from the aftermath!

Dancing in the rain is on my bucket list. I don't know why it's taking me forever to do it. There's always rain this time of year. I guess it's not something I really want to do before I die, but an experience that I would enjoy (and I'd possibly catch a cold...there goes my mother again).

My sophomore English teacher taught me that rain is used in movies and novels to denote change. I didn't have much fun during our Shakespeare unit, but the one useful piece of information I came away with is rain = change. It might be a realization, death, windfall, etc. We can't always have sunny days and sometimes the adversity of rain and dark, gloomy days is the kick in the butt we need in order to level up.

It's raining lightly outside :)

The other thing on my mind is planning. Many of us plan our lives. The details aren't always clear, but we have a general idea of where we want to go. When I was a teenager I wrote a letter to myself to be opened in 10 years. I think I ended up reading it at year four or five. I had a whole plan of things I wanted to accomplish and where I wanted to be at...at marriage and baby in a baby carriage, the whole nine. Fast forward 10-15 years and my plan is not coming to pass on my timeline.

It's interesting how many of us make plans without counseling with the Great Planner himself, our Heavenly Father. I hope I can truthfully say that I'm better at including Him in my plans now. I know for sure I didn't plan to be unemployed for this long, but somehow we're making it. I'm grateful for my family's support and non-judgmental stares when I tell them I'm tired after staying home or only working a few hours at my part time job. I'm trying.

He will guide us through the storms of our lives when we let Him. King Benjamin told his people to turn their tents toward the Temple. This is my trying to turn myself in the same direction.

Love & Blessings.

A. My infatuation with racquetball.
Q. What is my new pastime?

You like how I flipped that around? Jeopardy wizz!

My tennis team has been hitting the racquetball courts and we love it, mostly because we don't have to run after the balls ... LAZY. We've also been doing a little more with our ukes. We're planning a "Spring Fling" in May. Basically, we're going caroling in the middle of the year to our favorite, less mobile/more mature audiences. We're trying to be more cultural and entertaining so our set list is mostly the classic Samoan songs that our older Samoan generation will appreciate. We're working on Tele i'a o le sami, Si fe'e, Tofa my feleni and maybe one more :) I'm super duper excited.

- cluth - shift - gas -

All these entries about my frustrating job search will be funny someday, right? Inspiration hit a couple hours ago and that's why I hopped back on this blasted internet (I spent a considerable amount of time searching earlier today). I remembered this awesome Temp agency and searched their Talent opportunities...voila! I found two, maybe three, jobs that are right up my alley. I was a little concerned about the 12:30 time stamp on my apps, but I decided to submit them anyway. Wish me luck!

- cluth - shift - gas -

'Nite :)

FA'ATUATUA MA GALUEGA

(www.lds.org/broadcast/ces/cesfrsdmcmullin00942890.pdf)

Two things I need desperately.

How do you pronounce Nguyen? I just spent the last couple minutes researching and practicing. Fun.