Baby Steps to the New Job...

Today's music:
Ground Control to Major Tom - David Bowie .... Whut?

I Kissed a Girl - Katy Perry

So J calls me yesterday. And says, "Call me back! Call me back! I want my phone to ring!!"

So without hesitation, that's what I did. When she answered after the 4th ring giggling hysterically I asked why. Turns out my new ring tone on her cell is I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry. She finds this extremely funny. Not that we've ever kissed. But we'd be married by now if we both didn't love men so much.

Then she called tonight, just now. " Quick, name this tune," she says, followed by the tentative singing of "I'm sitting in a tin can... did you get it?"

To which I -again without hesitation-respond "Ground Control to Major Tom?" and proceed to find it on YouTube to play it for her, holding the phone up at the part were Major Tom calls Ground Control back and all hell breaks loose for the poor guy. "Thank you, that made my whole day better." Random. That's what I love most about our friendship. To us, the whole scene seemed normal until I replayed it in my head and realized that we're pretty strange. Absurd that she'd have that song stuck in her head (God knows where that one came from) and just bizarre that of course I knew the answer ROFL. D always says his "women have uses." We can reach things, and name that tune lol.

So I promised myself that once I was done my course I'd look for alternative employment. I updated my resume, looked online for 4 hours and applied for 2 jobs that I don't really want. Just to do it. It's a start. Looking for a new job after 6 years at the same place is scary! I've never had to market myself with my skill set in the current marketplace! So I thought I'd start out with some practice at places I'm not so excited about so that if I screw it up, I don't really lose. We'll see how it goes...