Dad of Lulu - sweet Lulu has crossed The Bridge

I forgot to update on job looking. I have an email to Mark about the interviews with the school. I haven't heard anything. So I don't stand still. I have a guy that suggested lunch in Port Huron on Saturday. I went to look at his website and he has updated it last year. So if he is serious about hiring soon, I would be interested, if the school job doesn't materialize. Also another lady is interested in the work I was doing last year that ended a month and a half ago. So that is good news. I do get these through LinkedIn though I met these people before I LinkedIn with them.

We have a guest in our spare bedroom. Our neighbors are in the air right now having left Phoenix for Oahu right now. Must be nice. The guest is their cat Kitty Boy. Our two cats are very curious. Moo opened the door a crack, though Kitty Boy is staying under the bed.

This may just help the moral of all of us for the next two weeks. I still have to go over there every other day to take care of their hermit crabs.

Oh, well have to get the mail, and it is sleet raining, ugh, so I will drive out to the mailboxes.

Glad you are standing still and are actively pursuing all possibilities. That's what you have to do unfortunately.
Also have you looked at larger companies who usually will have a web department? That might be a possiblity. Telecom, Manufacturing, etc. Just ideas to throw into the wind.
I think pets are awesome for ones health and stability.

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Hi Bob and Moo

Just checking in to see how you are all doing, keeping busy on the job hunt I see. You are right, no good standing still and waiting! Good things come to those who go looking :D:D I am in your cheer squad willing the right job to land in your lap soon. I love reading about your walks too, it sounds so peaceful and we can all do with a bit of that. I hope Kitty Boo is out from under the bed soon!!

Trish xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Trish,

Yes, the schools are closed today with a snow day, but unless they have put the director position on hold, which is possible with this sequester thing in Washington D.C. then I haven't had an interview scheduled and they need to get those going by the end of this week for sure.

But I am meeting in the same town a guy I met with three years ago about a software job in security, so I am looking forward to meeting him. I hope he is serious.

At the same time, I wish the school district was serious, as they have some problems I was told about that are easy to fix, but the present director has not fixed them. There is that thing called politics, so what else is new.

I do know the name of the human resource director. I am thinking of sending him an email tomorrow. May not do any good, but I can't think that it would do any harm, because if I'm not going to be interviewed no harm done. The h.r. person is new, only been there a year.

Well will try more grieving exercises. The hardest part getting by is the quiet in the home and car. She was with us (Lulu) a lot. We haven't had a long vacation since 2006. And that was the last time she even spent time in a kennel. We were lucky to be able to either have someone stay at home or a neighbor come over when we were gone, and it was never more than four nights.

Maybe when the pay checks start rolling in you and Moo can start to plan a wee trip away, or a nice long holiday :D Having something to look forward to would help I think. Where would you like to go?

Hi Trish,

A trip might help. I sure could use one. I can't believe how a dog can have such an effect, but as Moo said she wasn't a dog, she was a people! And I have to laugh, she was!

Trish...that is a great idea. I don't know where Bob would like to go, but ( would like to go to West Branch Michigan. We have gone there for the last 6 or so years for our Anniversary. We always took Lulu with us. She loved to stay in a Motel. We could not aford to go this year, and we had just lost Lulu. So I would like to go there and remember our baby jumping from Bed to bed and walking in the woods...just one more time.

But you can rest assured, if the checks start to roll in, we will have a new baby in no time. I can not live with out a dog...it is too hard. Maybe the pain would be less, with a new baby....Stella, is waiting for us to find her :)
Love,
Moo

Haven't read much more in the Grieving book, I know the section I want to read next. Late breakfast meeting with another potential employer went good. He doesn't have anything full at the moment, though he said he may be able to start me with something soon. I don't know whether to be relieved, but I do keep looking. The techie stuff he does is good. There are some issues. He did ask if I would be interested in going to Las Vegas to a trade show in April that he goes to? I said I don't thin that would be a problem. But my dilemma is I am thinking he won't be able to pay enough, and that is the criteria for me 'Enough' .

Well I will return later with more on the grieving book.

Enough is kind of important. Enough to get by, enough to find Stella or allow her to find you, enough to not worry, etc, etc, etc. :)

Sharlene and Molly Muffin