http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/ spicybitch's Blog en-us © 2010 Greasy.com All rights reserved. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:06:23 GMT 30 http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/mortality_planning_future_.html It's strange, you call your mother expecting to just talk about the weather, and mundane things. Then she says "Just listen to me." Ok, I say. So she starts talking to me about what we should do in the event that both my parents pass away and what the plan is. I don't mind having these conversations, in fact, I think my mother has been telling me what to do for this event for the last 20 years of my life. They are changing their will from 15 years ago, because it doesn't include provisions ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/mortality_planning_future_.html#comments Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:51:57 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/grammys_rocked.html Last night was the first time in a long time that I wanted to watch an awards program of any kind. Why? I thought for once it was a bunch of bs and blowing smoke up people's butts! There were actually talented musicians up for the grammys. Pink is without a doubt the biggest rockstar lady! She pulled off some acrobatics while singing. Now, I am not sure that she was able to be singing while suspended above the crowd at the Staples Center in LA. However, the performance was AMAZING. Even th ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/grammys_rocked.html#comments Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:39:00 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/happy_year.html Whew, it's been a whirlwind couple of weeks and I still don't feel like I have caught my breath. Living together with Fungi certainly has it's perks. We have enjoyed the location that we are now living in, mostly because there are lots of places to grab food. This has been a blessing and a curse. A blessing because we have been tired after work and not felt like cooking. A curse because we had been eating out a lot. We finally have unpacked stuff and our kitchen is mostly usable. We're goi ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/happy_year.html#comments Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:10:32 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/happy_holidays.html A lot has taken place over the last couple of months. I feel like I haven't even been able to breath lately. The pace has been go, go, go. I moved in with Fungi and we've been digging living in sin together. It's been slow settling into our digs, but we are starting to figure out our routine and our tics. All in all, things are good. We took a quick trip up to NYC this past weekend to see my parents and the Rockettes. It was a great show and I was happy to have had the pleasure of watching ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/happy_holidays.html#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:41:05 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/moving_moving_2.html The last few weeks and future weeks will be devoted to downsizing and de-cluttering mine and my future roomie's lives. This past weekend was good for me in terms of making progress towards healing about Spike. I have decided that I am not going home for Thanksgiving and it is likely I won't be with my folks during Christmas either. My older sister as I mentioned previously, is not dealing with the loss of Spike in a positive manner. I can't make her see the reality that was that decision, ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/moving_moving_2.html#comments Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:23:02 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/maturing.html So obviously it's been a rough road lately with the loss of my beloved dog Spike. People and friends have had mixed reactions. Some good and some bad. My sister M has reacted the worse. For those who may or may not know we have a complicated relationship. The reader's digest version is that M had teenage epilepsy. I remember at a young age seeing her shake, uncontrollably on the bed and then she had wet herself. I realized at a young age that I had to watch her constantly. This might have ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/maturing.html#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:12:51 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/job_goooooud.html I like my new job, and I am learning new stuff every day which is awesome. I love to be challenged and I like to learn and grow through my career. In any event, its strange, I have already developed some good work relationships with some co workers. Not so much with my boss, because he's been super busy. This is ok, because we don't have a "bad" relationship, it just hasn't been developed yet. I was talking with a co-worker yesterday or the day before and she was asking my advice on on-lin ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/job_goooooud.html#comments Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:39:52 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/employed_news.html It seems so strange that here within this sadness lies some joy. I finally found a job about a month ago now. Over the last few weeks I have been learning my new job, as a Client Marketing Manager for a technology company here in the DC metro area. We sell our technology to non-profits as a solution to help generate non-dues revenue for them. It's still the early phase, but so far, so good. The process of mourning has been a difficult one. I have been on a spending spree to help ease the g ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/employed_news.html#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:32:51 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/difficult_blog_write_.html I have tried several times to write this blog. It's been three weeks since I had to make quite possibly the most awful decision I have ever made in my life. I hope and pray that no one in their life will ever have to make such a decision. Spike is no longer with us, and even though he's been gone for three weeks now, my tears still run down my face. About a month leading up to this decision, my beautiful, amazing dog started to act other than himself. I took him to his check up and he test ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/difficult_blog_write_.html#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:40:40 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/fungi.html Things have been going quite nice with Fungi. This past Wednesday, we celebrated our one month anniversary of being together. We didn't do anything extravagant but simply celebrated our new love together. It's strange to think that a month ago I met this amazing man, it seems quick and yet I feel like I have known him for longer. Fungi went to visit his family over the last weekend, which left me with little or no entertainment. However, Kristy called me on Friday night and managed to "twi ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/fungi.html#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:14:25 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/life_roller_coaster_baby_.html Where have I been for the last 20 days? Visiting with friends, family and fungi of course! So a lot of the opportunities that I had going on earlier are no longer in the hopper, and when new opportunities weren't coming in guess what happened? Down, down, down, down went the mood! I am thankful to report that things seem to be on the upswing. I made some changes to my resume and my salary requirements and I am now seeing more movement in the professional job arena. I had a fantastic interv ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/life_roller_coaster_baby_.html#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:07:20 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/life_update.html So I have been a busy bee the past few weeks. I went to NY to visit with the family. I got a new IPhone 3GS when I was at home. I am gonna update my phone number soon, so look for the text/email informing you of this glorious change! :) I decided it was time to lose the people who I would rather not speak to anymore (i.e SD). Last week I went on my first date with a boy we're gonna call Fungi. He is hilarious and I enjoy his company immensely. We met off of the dating site that I seem to b ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/life_update.html#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:06:47 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/update_job_search_.html So it's been a while since I have blogged about the never ending job search. I found out for one of the two marathon interviews that there not considering me as a potential. Its good to know one way or another, even if I did spend a lot of time with them. I sent in an email to the human resource person at the other joint last Friday and haven't heard a word from them. I am assuming at this juncture that they are not considering me for the position, considering they wanted to have this pers ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/update_job_search_.html#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:54:41 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/waiting_game.html I got through the weekend without hearing from either job. On Sunday night after 5 hours of mimosas I decided to leave the recruiter a little love message. Don't worry I didn't slur my words. She phoned me back in the AM on Sunday. I called her and she let me know that personality and culturally I was a great match. Skill-wise they were unsure of one area that I might need some additional experience or depth. I addressed this concern with her over the phone and expressed my continued inter ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/waiting_game.html#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:16:40 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/interview-palooza.html This week was a big week for interviews. I have a good feeling that something positive is going to come out of one or both of the opportunities that I interviewed for. So I am keeping on the positive thinking train and visualizing having one or both of the jobs. The one on Tuesday lasted nearly three hours and was a bit further away from where I am currently living. However, my lease is up in November and if I get a job soon I am entertaining the idea of purchasing a home. I am not sure if ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/interview-palooza.html#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:39:40 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/great_weekend.html My cousin agreed to watch the Spiker for the weekend. She spent the weekend at my place with him while going to the pool, and playing on the internet. This has been much of my strategy over the last few weeks to entertain myself while unemployed. I can relate to how this could be a great benefit to your health and mental situation. I headed to the beach with Natalie late night on Friday night. We got there around midnight and crashed! We were so tired! So we headed out to accomplish our go ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/great_weekend.html#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:04:53 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/twilight_twilight_zone.html So I have been exploring any and all options for employment. Including, but not limited to restaurant work, consulting, as well as other non profit gigs. Yesterday and today I had two interviews for restaurant jobs. I also had a phone interview. The phone interview went well, and the one restaurant gig did not. I show up at the agreed upon time for the interview, and the dude doesn't have his act together. He has to walk up the stairs and get the file. He comes down spends five minutes rev ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/twilight_twilight_zone.html#comments Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:49:39 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/part_time_gig_.html Today I got a Facebook message from an old co-worker to phone her sometime today because she could really use my marketing and sales skills. I have never actually worked in sales but I was up for the conversation. When we worked together she had conceived this idea to open a cooking school and was working hard on her business plan. In January, Cookology opened its doors. It's been up and running successfully and even got some good media coverage within the first few weeks of its open. So s ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/part_time_gig_.html#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:27:26 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/epic_weekend.html This weekend was off the chain! I volunteered to be a "beer taster" at the Brew Fest here in the Greater Washington DC area. We were supposed to be taking tickets, and they assembled us into groups. They asked us if we were on the "red team" which we were and they took us to a table full of beer taps and kegs. N and I volunteered to pour Blue Moon beer, and we had great weather. The weather was very unlike DC summer weather. It was 80 degrees, Sunny and not humid. Under the tent it was qui ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/epic_weekend.html#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:38:05 GMT http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/week_unemployment_chronicles.html So we're into week 3 of being unemployed. The severance check came in on Friday. There will be no more money coming from anyone other than the federal government for the unforeseeable future. It's strange talking to people because they want to know what's new with you. Today I went to the pool, and prepped for the phone interview. It was supposed to happen at 1 but wound up being pushed to 515. At 520 the phone did not ring so I phoned them to see if I had the time correct. It was 530 when ... http://my.greasy.com/spicybitch/week_unemployment_chronicles.html#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:01:06 GMT