Bedtime Stories got competition

I decided to start a new blog recently. It’s my way of making the most of what I have right now, and turning it into something positive. Not that it’s negative to begin with. Anyway, whatever. Don’t worry, I’ll still be using this as my personal blog.

The new one will be dedicated to musings and what not concerning work. Or the occasional adventures before, during, and/or after. Hopefully, this’ll also help me spark my passion again for writing, maybe even improve it.

Just be sure to keep it between us, I wouldn’t want my boss or coworkers to know about it. Time may or may not come that I might write something about them. LOL

So, yes, if you have time, visit The Adventures of a Minimum Wage Earner. Thank you! 🙂

The skrep of being a two-timing goody two shoes

This circumstance I am in now is giving me a headache.

Recently, I have been complaining a little about the lack of opportunities. However, I was never ungrateful. In truth, I am very thankful:

1. My part-time job of very few hours for minimum wage is still a source of income, I never go down to $0. Plus I’m surrounded by very nice people, and I have a very nice boss.

2. Great friends that are just around the corner – physical and virtual.

3. The volunteer hours at a nursing home every Friday of the week. I may not yet be doing groups, or conducting 1:1’s, and the likes, but I know I’ll get there someday, and soon. Besides,

4. My supervisor likes me, I think. She sent my resume, along with two others, to their sister facility, and said the administrator there liked what she saw.

However, not that I am impatient, logical maybe, three weeks passed and there was not yet a phone call. I assumed the less painful road of not expecting that the administrator went for another candidate.

So I took another route.

My friend has been bugging me for a long time about something. I said I’ll wait until after the first week of September, because I had to relieve for an employee at my part-time job. “I’d wait until then, if nothing  came up, I’ll try it out.” Then the pressure of bills, and money, and parents took their toll. I cheated on my first love.

I believe it was the 29th of August when I met with said friend, who, in turn, introduced me to her boss, who conveniently owned a franchise of a cookie place somewhere north of where I live. In conclusion, I have a job now.

Days after I said I’ll take the job, my previous work called, offering a new position for this ongoing project. I’m not that disappointed about this soon-to-be-wasted opportunity. Especially when I started on my new job yesterday and confirmed it to be a sweet deal, literally.

The problem is, this morning, said sister nursing home’s said administrator called me. You can probably guess where this goes. I was invited for an interview this Friday. I said yes. I’m not saying I’ll get the job. But what if I do? It’s psychology vs. food. It’s saying no to something you love vs. saying no to something you committed to doing (which you like as well). And so. much. more.

What to do? What to do?!

Date a girl who reads

If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

– Date a Girl Who Reads, Rosemarie Urquico

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis (#33)
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

I found this on my friend’s blog.

I watched film versions of some of these books, some I’ve been wanting to read, some I’ve never heard of until now. But I will make it a life-time goal to read, and finish in entirety, every book in this list. No matter how long it takes me. I will dedicate a page for this list so that I will always be reminded.