Starbucks

Larry and I have been staying up quite late these days...working on the house.

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One of these wonderful nights we made a late night Starbucks run...they closed at 11 and we were there about 10:45pm. Let me just say -

How do you know when you need to seek professional help via Starbucks Anonymous?

1) Your cars transmission craps out on you and you can't make it through the drive-through of your local Starbucks.

2) You can't afford a car with working windows so that you CAN go through the drive-through of your local Starbucks.

I kid you not...we pull into the Starbucks drive-through with two cars ahead of us. The one DIRECTLY in front of us has to open the car door to place their order - because their window doesn't work.
They order and now it's our turn. We place are order and the lane moves. Next thing we notice the car in front of the broken window vehicle isn't moving. It doesn't pull up to the window, however the front passenger gets out and proceeds to walk up to the window to pay and pick up their order.

At this point...I mention to Larry that we should never leave the house after 10again, because only weird crap happens to us after hours. All kinds of ideas are being tossed back and forth between us as to why the crackhead in the vehicle just got out and WALKED to the window.

Next thing we see...two other girls emerge from the vehicle and go up to the window. One of them yells that her car just broke down.

Then the man (repping the Rockets in his late model Rocket jersey) driving broken window vehicle and my husband both get out to help push the car out of the way. The broken window guy tries to turn it on and guide it so my husband can push it tells us the cars transmission crapped out....how accurate this is (coming from a beat down car owner) is unknown.

Point is...if your vehicles are that bad off...maybe you should save the money you spend on Starbucks and get a few repairs done.

I love Starbucks as much as the next guy...but man...sometimes you just have to say no.

Keeping people in line!

Ok, so I've signed up with TWO employment agencies. I've been with one since July of 2008 and they sent me out on one job. I worked at that job for a while and then they let go of all the temps that were working there.

I really liked that job - it was in the Imports industry and it keep me much busier than the my previous job. I loved it. There was never a dull moment and there was always something to do, very unlike the previous job were I was constantly bored and my brain was missing stimulation.

Anyway, I loved this job and my boss even cried when she had to tell me they were letting go all of the temps. She has since been a really great friend and keeps my resume on file - in case they start hiring and even forwarded my resume to others she knows are looking for good workers.

Back to the point...this first agency (I'll call it Agency A.) has not called me out on any jobs in a few months. I happened to check their website with all the job postings and noticed a few I could EASILY do. I emailed the agency and asked if I had been considered for any of these. A lady we will call K, emails me back and stated that for these postions my test scores needed to be 95% or above and that she did not think my scores were that high.

Now, mind you I just signed up with Agency B and was told I aced my tests. They were the same as the ones I took at Agency A with a couple of extras.

So I asked K what my test scores where and if they were that bad could I re-test. She did not answer my questions about the original scores - instead she just emails me the tests to take at home.

I take the 3 test and my results are as follows: 100% on Word, 100% on spelling, and 90% on Excel. I VERY VERY RARELY use Excel!

I email her back and tell her I took the tests and let her know what my scores are and note that if I need to retake Excel I can. I also tell her that I would STILL like to know my old test scores.

This was last Thursday. I didn't hear from her. So, I go over her head to the owner of the agency. I've talked with the owner (we will call her J) multiple times so I felt I could email her. I emailed her the copies of the previous emails and within 2 minutes I get an email and a phone call from her.

She tells me that K - is no longer with the agency and she has a position she wants to forward my resume onto and wants to know if I would be interested. However, she might need me to test again unless she can figure out what K did with everything. She even had to ask me to resend my resume to her.

Funny how things work out.

I wonder why K no longer works there.

Quick Updates

Had a great time @ the rodeo last night...didn't think I knew as many Clay Walker songs as I did. Can't wait for Brad Paisley night. Thanks Jamie!

Signed up with Twitter...something new for me to be addicted too...aside from MySpace, Facebook, and Blogspot. Thank you Jamie for that one too.

Larry finally had his tooth taken care of...I'm so glad he's not in pain anymore. It hurts my heart to see him hurt. However, he loves his new dentist...even though it is a small drive.

Still looking/praying for a job...hopefully that changes soon.

This weekend I have reserved for working on the house/yard...with Larry's help. Can't wait!

I think that's about it right now...dog wants to go outside...so see you later.

P.S. Here's a video featuring Rainn Wilson...thought it was funny.