Employment (Yippee!!)

This past sunday Janson and I were out and about GR and happened to see that a retail chain had a hiring sign up. I went into apply and saw a friend of mine working there. She said I could use her as a referance which was nice.

Monday I brought the ap in and she was working again. She told me to "hang on a second" and went in the back room. When she came out she asked me if Wednesday was okay for an interview.
Wednesday I went in for a group interview.

Thurday I was offered a job.

Friday (today) I went to orientation.

Tuesday I start training!

I'll be working as a sales associate in the "home bucket" which is a rather large department running from seasonal to home stuff.

As far as I can tell (coparing orientation with previous employer's orientations) they treat they're employees pretty well.

I'm pretty happy about finally having a job.

Pictures

If you want to see some of my pictures you can visit the website:

http://picasaweb.google.com/sara.m.rip

I'll put a link to it on the sidebar.

Cutie Pies

I promise my blog will not dissolve into a blog revolving around my cats, but right now they are the only thing that is semi interesting in my life.

Here's Absinthe all cuddled up in the little Kittie Bed I made for her. (see "the Wonderful Feeling of Being Right" post a few days ago...)



Here are the two cats sitting next to each other.


Recently the joys of sun-basking have been discovered.


Dante hates high places. Absinthe seems to love them.

My "Famous" Sister

If you go to or have graduated from Calvin (and read the Spark) You might be jealous that I have such a famous "cover girl" of a sister. If you have no clue what I'm talking about, click on the picture (it's a link to the Calvin Spark online).

The Wonderful Feeling of Being RIGHT

I love being Right.

Here's the short version:

After moving the apartment around we came up with a spare piece of flat foam. As it is in my nature to "waste not, want not" the gears in my mind began spinning as I pondered what project could use a large piece of foam. It didn't take long for me to realize that it would be perfect for making a little cat bed. I cut off the necessary pieces which Janson eyed suspiciously. He asked and I told him (with demonstrations) that the pieces would be made into a covered cat bed. He laughed. When I later began working on my little project he asked me what I was doing. I explained. He laughed. Apparently he had thought I was joking about the cat bed. According to the skepticm in his eyes, by actually following through on my proposed cat bed I had crossed the border into Crazyland.

After finishing the cover for the bottom piece of foam I tossed it near where Absinthe (one of the cats) was lounging. She sniffed it and within two seconds was curled up on top of it sleeping.

She absoluelty loves it.

I absolutely love being Right.


According to Laura blog posts aren't much good without pictures...
So here's a couple pictures we took the other day when Grand Rapids was getting really thick snowfall. The cats think snow is too Cold and too Wet and they're curiousity towards the white fluffy stuff floating by their window has been satiated.


The top one is me and Absinthe and the bottom one is Janson and Dante.