To say I'm rusty is an understatement.
But, here's a photo or two, just because. As a matter of fact, that's about all you'll see here in the near term, so have fun with it. It's my world, after all. Wheeeeee!
This is High Frequency Kumi.
Saturday, November 21, 2015
I got a new light box
Yes, in my spare time, I used to photograph dolls. I haven't for a very long time. But I got a new lightbox!
To say I'm rusty is an understatement.
But, here's a photo or two, just because. As a matter of fact, that's about all you'll see here in the near term, so have fun with it. It's my world, after all. Wheeeeee!
This is High Frequency Kumi.
To say I'm rusty is an understatement.
But, here's a photo or two, just because. As a matter of fact, that's about all you'll see here in the near term, so have fun with it. It's my world, after all. Wheeeeee!
This is High Frequency Kumi.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Another Saturday Night....
And I ain't got nobody...
Really, that "ain't" how I feel about life right now, because it's pretty damned good. I have my car back (thank you Pep Boys!) and my money and my WINE! My friends are all a touch away and I hit the dentist on Tuesday after a visit with mom on Monday.
I've been working my ass off for little reward and I feel things are about to pay off. I'm not exactly sure how, or when, but my time is coming. It's a good feeling. No, I haven't started drinking from the cups yet, so I haven't lost my mind.
I'm about to watch This Is the End and then World War Z, so entertainment is covered. I love a movie night. My precious cats and my sister's mumble mumble there are too many to mention the number here lest I be labeled a crazy cat lady mumble are rumbling all through the house, with a few of the more dainty variety pitter pattering instead. A plastic tub of mouth watering sweet-on-the-inside, tart-on-the-outside Concord grapes rests beside me and I'm eating them as if I am an Egyptian queen. Did they have grapes? If the weather was a high plains desert like Colorado, then I'm guessing not, because I squealed with delight when I saw these on the shelf at the grocery story today. I haven't had them in 20 years. You just can't get them in Colorado. At least I never saw them.
Apparently Hatch green chilies come to Pennsylvania once month of the year, but I never caught a Concord grape in Colorado. I'm not sure that's a fair trade off.
Listen to some music, my friends, and feel free to drop by on G+ or here on Blogger to tell me how you're doing. Enjoy your Saturday night!
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Look at this horrid job posting. THEY WANT SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY
My first recommendation after 15 years as an HR professional would be to take your job search off of CraigsList when looking FOR SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY. My second recommendation would be to take some time with the ad, ensuring it was put together using proper English and punctuation. Utilizing full sentences usually gets those SERIOUS APPLICANTS' WITH BACHELORS DEGREES attention far more than the intimidation tactics of SCREAMING AT THEM WITH CAPITAL LETTERS. You might also want to look into the proper terminology. If you are asking for any old bachelor's degree, it receives an apostrophe s. If you require a specific degree, such as a Bachelor of Science degree, then you wouldn't need the apostrophe. Amazingly, I don't need a bachelor's degree to know these things. I AM SERIOUSLY UNEDUCATED.
They put so much emphasis on a bachelor's degree that they forget what it is supposed represent - quality. If the person who put this ad together holds a bachelor's degree we can either assume THEY DON'T TAKE THEIR JOB SERIOUSLY or they went to the community college, where they DIDN'T TAKE THEIR CLASSES SERIOUSLY.
Service Coordinators - Conduct intake assessments of people referred for services and supports. Based on the identified individual needs develop a Care Plan which addresses the needs Assures quality services are being provided to all assigned people who receive supports through the management, supervision and evaluation of direct care staff. Ensures compliance with all contract requirements. A Bachelor Degree is a MUST (SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY)
Office Manager - Office managers organize and supervise all of the administrative activities that facilitate the smooth running of an office. Manager will also need to be willing to grow and expand the business with various marketing strategies. Home Health Care experience and Bachelor Degree is a MUST. (SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY)
They put so much emphasis on a bachelor's degree that they forget what it is supposed represent - quality. If the person who put this ad together holds a bachelor's degree we can either assume THEY DON'T TAKE THEIR JOB SERIOUSLY or they went to the community college, where they DIDN'T TAKE THEIR CLASSES SERIOUSLY.
Service Coordinators - Conduct intake assessments of people referred for services and supports. Based on the identified individual needs develop a Care Plan which addresses the needs Assures quality services are being provided to all assigned people who receive supports through the management, supervision and evaluation of direct care staff. Ensures compliance with all contract requirements. A Bachelor Degree is a MUST (SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY)
Office Manager - Office managers organize and supervise all of the administrative activities that facilitate the smooth running of an office. Manager will also need to be willing to grow and expand the business with various marketing strategies. Home Health Care experience and Bachelor Degree is a MUST. (SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY)
Friday, June 21, 2013
Everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends.
They don't tell you what to do if you don't have any friends.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Love Isn't Like The Movies Boys
I don't know much about love. There have been times when I thought I was in love, only to realize afterward if I had been in love, I'd probably still be in it now. I don't think true love disappears on a whim or a simple argument. It's complicated and chaotic and passionate and makes you think you're crazy. You very well may be crazy when you're falling in love. I just don't know.
I grew up with parents and grandparents who didn't exactly pour emotion out of their hearts. They didn't snuggle and kiss and do all the cutie things you imagine with love. For special occasions, flowers were given and the obligatory closed mouth kisses. There were two easy chairs in the living room and a couch for us girls. On the odd occasion mom and dad were on the couch together, we thought their chairs were broken.
I'm watching Bridges of Madison County. It's one of the few movies that truly touched my heart. I believed that Robert and Elise fell in love in a way she could never have imagined when she married and had children. Did she deserve to lose the right to such a love because of a decision made at a time when she didn't has the full scope of information? In those time, it appeared the answer was yes.
I have never watched the scene of Elise in the truck with her husband at a red light, her hand on the door, every ounce of her being fighting to go with him but holding herself back to do what was right for her children. The words "this type of certainty comes but once in a lifetime" echoing in her head.
Through it all, she had doubts of his world traveler lifestyle and whether she would fit in. It was only after he died, leaving a legacy of the live they would have shared if she had chosen a different path. Her children, now adults, learning what she gave up to stay with them.
But it was too late. He Robert spent his life living adventures with and for her, but without her presence, only to die and send back his memories. I've never experienced such love myself, but I can imagine that if it was to come, there would be a reason I could not have it. I would never be able to embrace the love that was brought it to me.
Similarly, The Way We Were examined a great love of two inherently different people. Despite their great affection for each other, they had to finally face the fact that they would never find peace in each others arms, only more tests and tribulations. While excitement came of such ventures, families and futures did not. Another great love was lost due to differing opinions and the need to espresso their way of living separately.
Watching the final scene, as they run not each other n the street, knowing how deeply the did and still do care for one anger, but never able to live with the consequences of heir love, and observing each others great happiness without that love ripped from me great sobs of loss.
The final movie that exacted from me great joy that love can exact meaning in s many strange ways was Leaving Las Vegas. I cannot, at this moment, recall the characters names, but that their expectations of each other we're only to love as much as the other was willing to give and nothing more, without judgement was so beautiful to me.
All three movies elicit from me such different emotions, all are so pure and yet I don't believe I will ever encounter a love matching any of them myself. I don't know if it's because loves looked those written don't truly exist or because I'm not capable of receiving them. It has to come down to one or the other, right?
I seem to be fairly good at sending people packing with a mere slip of the tongue. What was once "I love you more" becomes "I'd like you to leave please" and I never know what comes between. My geisha qualities being slim, I can make a guess, but that's all support to count against true love, further proving I've never experienced it.
Take me as I am and don't expect fairy tales and maybe dreams can come true. Or, at least a slight run at the damned impossible. I do know when you say you're willing to stand by during the hard times, even the first one counts. And the second, as there will likely be more bad than good as you find your footing. That's what makes the long term incredible everlasting love we SHOULD be writing movies about.
Share your favorite movies, thoughts and expectations with me. Frak knows I can use the advice. The photo represents the cold, barren aspect of my love life. Feel the weight of THAT on your shoulders!
I grew up with parents and grandparents who didn't exactly pour emotion out of their hearts. They didn't snuggle and kiss and do all the cutie things you imagine with love. For special occasions, flowers were given and the obligatory closed mouth kisses. There were two easy chairs in the living room and a couch for us girls. On the odd occasion mom and dad were on the couch together, we thought their chairs were broken.
I'm watching Bridges of Madison County. It's one of the few movies that truly touched my heart. I believed that Robert and Elise fell in love in a way she could never have imagined when she married and had children. Did she deserve to lose the right to such a love because of a decision made at a time when she didn't has the full scope of information? In those time, it appeared the answer was yes.
I have never watched the scene of Elise in the truck with her husband at a red light, her hand on the door, every ounce of her being fighting to go with him but holding herself back to do what was right for her children. The words "this type of certainty comes but once in a lifetime" echoing in her head.
Through it all, she had doubts of his world traveler lifestyle and whether she would fit in. It was only after he died, leaving a legacy of the live they would have shared if she had chosen a different path. Her children, now adults, learning what she gave up to stay with them.
But it was too late. He Robert spent his life living adventures with and for her, but without her presence, only to die and send back his memories. I've never experienced such love myself, but I can imagine that if it was to come, there would be a reason I could not have it. I would never be able to embrace the love that was brought it to me.
Similarly, The Way We Were examined a great love of two inherently different people. Despite their great affection for each other, they had to finally face the fact that they would never find peace in each others arms, only more tests and tribulations. While excitement came of such ventures, families and futures did not. Another great love was lost due to differing opinions and the need to espresso their way of living separately.
Watching the final scene, as they run not each other n the street, knowing how deeply the did and still do care for one anger, but never able to live with the consequences of heir love, and observing each others great happiness without that love ripped from me great sobs of loss.
The final movie that exacted from me great joy that love can exact meaning in s many strange ways was Leaving Las Vegas. I cannot, at this moment, recall the characters names, but that their expectations of each other we're only to love as much as the other was willing to give and nothing more, without judgement was so beautiful to me.
All three movies elicit from me such different emotions, all are so pure and yet I don't believe I will ever encounter a love matching any of them myself. I don't know if it's because loves looked those written don't truly exist or because I'm not capable of receiving them. It has to come down to one or the other, right?
I seem to be fairly good at sending people packing with a mere slip of the tongue. What was once "I love you more" becomes "I'd like you to leave please" and I never know what comes between. My geisha qualities being slim, I can make a guess, but that's all support to count against true love, further proving I've never experienced it.
Take me as I am and don't expect fairy tales and maybe dreams can come true. Or, at least a slight run at the damned impossible. I do know when you say you're willing to stand by during the hard times, even the first one counts. And the second, as there will likely be more bad than good as you find your footing. That's what makes the long term incredible everlasting love we SHOULD be writing movies about.
Share your favorite movies, thoughts and expectations with me. Frak knows I can use the advice. The photo represents the cold, barren aspect of my love life. Feel the weight of THAT on your shoulders!
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