dream job- for the treats.

Do you read Ohh Lulu? Does a girl like lingerie, I should ask. or Does my bf enjoy iPad racing games? (YES.)

that's my man. 

Anyway, reading about Lulu setting up her office with her buddy this month has made me think about how much I would like to write and offer my services to her- or someone like her. I love that kind of job, where someone else is the boss and is really cool and creative, and I have to do all of the little things to make the business run better, then I get paid :). I suppose Holly is also that person...is there some small creative company in the Bay that needs a Girl Friday? Because I am available Fridays, and could use the extra cash!

I've actually been working like this, freelance, catch as catch can (is that right? what a strange phrase) for another business in town, for almost 10 years now. It's great, I work a little bit here and there and it keeps me in cute shoes, for the most part. And my boss is great, and I work with a tiny network of other creative people freelancing for extra bucks, and it's a cool connection.

much femme-ier in real life. leather like butter. 

Sure would be cool to link that to the sewing crafting making world. Because as much as I can make all of my workout clothes and underpanties and t shirts for my kid, the thing about sewing, is that you still need shoes. In fact, you need cute shoes to bring your cool outfits together. Like the World's Simplest Maxi, which I'm sorry but I still have not photographed but am wearing right this second, is lovely. it is flattering and stylish and sexy without being skeeezer, and it needs nice shoes to bring it to adulthood.

for instance, oxfords. 

Anyway. just a quick meditation on the dream job, and the life that allows a 2-day a week "job" to be enough working for a mom and a creative type. 

I've been sewing bunches, but am getting more self conscious about my crappy photos...we'll see if the man will help with some shots manana. He does such a good job, doesn't he ?

And if you're in the Bay and need a little bookeeping/organization/order fulfillment, do give a holler! 

xo 

bex

do you believe in personality tests?

i do, and i don't. same with astrology. it's comforting for me to put the big wide world into boxes...but i like to still imagine that anything is possible. :) oh but the limiting, that is nice. 

so i took a result and am determined not to forget it, like usual (how useful is something you forgot??). today's result:

Your Type is
INTP

Introverted	Intuitive	Thinking	Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
56	38	1	44

Qualitative analysis of your type formula
 You are:

• moderately expressed introvert
• moderately expressed intuitive personality
• slightly expressed thinking personality (vs feeling)
• moderately expressed perceiving personality

it's kind of cool, i feel like i'm growing into myself. like, this label may have been true for years/decades, but I had stuff to prove, to see, to learn, to experience-- and stuff i was afraid of missing out on. so i suppressed what wasn't exactly cool. anyway, now i just want to be me, and happy. and this feels close enough :)

also, here is a partial list of possible careers for my "type". My current career is nowhere near these, though I have considered, and begun to pursue, most of the ones below. ha! Dear Mom - note that "costume designer" is not on the list. i love you!! (dear bf, here's a giggle)

Possible Career Paths for the INTP:

• Scientists - especially Physics, Chemistry
• Photographers
• Strategic Planners
• Mathematicians
• University Professors
• Computer Programmers, Systems Analysts, Computer Animation and Computer Specialists
• Technical Writers
• Lawyers / Attorneys
• Judges
• Forensic Research
• Forestry and Park Rangers

perspective: GET STITCHING

"eh- you know which way to the mausoleum??"

ok, i made a lot of progress on my SWOP goals, and then i started having a social life. and then i went out of town to honor my grandpa, and here we are a week later and i don't have anything to show for it! well, i picked up a really beautiful rock in the Rockies. it was private land, so i am not robbing our national treasure-- private ownership did that already. whoa, tangent much?

ok, so, back to the point. penelope, who is crazy, writes such good things. here is today's reminder.

You don’t need a huge grand [career] to make your life fun and interesting. You just need to have a challenging goal that you are trying to reach, each day. You need to be able to make money doing it: that is what a good job is.

A good life is something else. It’s the stuff that isn’t your job. ... Your job doesn’t love you. Your friends do.

so, ok. i have good friends. i have really good relationships with my kid, my parents, my friends and my hot bf. thumbs up! keep those up for a good life. for immediate achievable goals, i will sew the heck out of my wardrobe, and keep learning and growing, i will study like hell for the CSET, and i will not get hung up on this job that i currently hold, which is obviously such a bad fit. 

"Sencha" blouse, free plaid fabric. it may be poly ?!?

here's tonight's deliverable ;)  maybe one day i will make it again, and try even slightly to match the plaid. maybe.

xo bex

interview

i told Rishi how much money we'd have if i got the job. "Rishi," I said, "do you know what we could do if we had money?!?"

"Go to park?" he said. 

Oh, no, not so much of that. :(

dear guy at work

i thought you were cute and i like the fact that you don't dress like you were going for a hike and decided to come to work instead. from our conversation this morning, it seems you are single. and well-traveled, and grounded. and self centered and kind of rude and dang, not that interesting anymore as crush candidates go.

oh well. tomorrow is another day.

major news in greenhouse gases and climate change

but it's so incredibly complicated I can't bother going into it. unless we're drinking and incredibly bored -- or ice cream -- you're just going to have to trust me on this one. I have some inside scoop that the USDOE has made an incredibly smart decision that will radically change the way gub'ment dollars are distributed around fuel and energy. and it might get even better. this is totally good for the kid.

so highfive everybody! enjoy your weekend!

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i used to steal buckets of cookie dough from the office freezer. there was a lot of it, and it appeared to have been abandoned. i would eat it at my desk, and eventually started sneaking it home. this could only have happened once or twice-- how many buckets of cookie dough fit in an office freezer?--but it was a gross time.

i thought of this because i brought cookie dough with me to work today. oof. it is bringing back gross memories. i should get something done before i barf.

my new friends are a little "marina"-flavored

I've been hanging out with work people lately, right? well i have to admit that when i went to the Very Beautiful one's house for her housewarming, her friends struck me as Marina. I think they actually live there.

they were talking about drinking all day the next day (it's hot! they're single! why not?) and i just assumed Dolores, but no, they were headed to Crissy Field. That's not necessarily an indictment, baby boy was there just the other day with his favorite "birthday mama", but it is an indication. They were also not quite as pretty as the people i usually surround myself with. because i am shallow. and have high expectations!

i can't believe i ate the whole thing!

i eat a lot of chocolate.

i eat my vegetables, and i eat local, fresh, organic, and i eat chocolate every day. it used to be dark (there's a whole post drafted about my connoisseur-ship of it), but since that baby came along, I'm back on milk. have you had Milka? my stepmom used to bring it back from Germany and it was this amazing treat they kept in the "outside fridge" because we lived in Texas and everyone needed extra cold food storage. or a place to hide the naughty things, maybe. ah, Texas. anyway now you can buy "Milka" in the US and it is not the real thing.

so today is California and I needed to blow off a little work steam. lizmarie and I took a walk to the market and while she told me about a colleague in Switzerland who gained 30 pounds eating chocolate, I picked up a Lindor Truffle bar.

I came back to the office, heated up my healthy lunch, and then tore into the chocolate. I think there are maybe three squares left. I should probably just start coffee.

back at work- blog rec

i LOVE this blog

http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/

that's what i'm doing, between pumping and email.

welcome to the environmental movement

we're all dating/marrying/partnering interracially.

we're this white as hell office, all good intentioned and smarty pants, and a large portion of us have non-white partners.

not all, ok. but a good number.

is it just the bay area? or is it that this (environment) is where lots of white folks get to plug in?

i forgot my camera

and i'm spotting

and the sky is STILL gray

and the woman next to me is So Dumb

you know when you lie in your bed, first thing in the morning, thinking how delicious a little caffeine will be, that it's going to be a rocky start.

I have brewed some green tea. Things will brighten soon, dammit!

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Postscript 10:54am- things are better already. improvements all around, except for the camera issue. there's always tomorrow. amen!