Half Full Friday and Blog of the Week

Eyegirl hasn't hosted in Half Full Friday for the past few weeks.  I prepared this post in advance so I'm not sure if she's still participating in it or not but I'm still doing it anyways. 

I'm happy that my dad gave me a gift certificate that he won for a free meal at an excellent drive-in!

I'm happy I had another interview this week!

I'm happy my friend got me a really pretty good luck charm bracelet as a souvenier from her trip!  I've been wearing it every day since!

I'm happy that my friend treated me to a McDonalds Fruit Smoothie for picking her up at the airport!

I'm happy I found a coupon for a free McD's Fruit Smoothie!  Thanks for the heads up, Sasha!

I'm happy I bought 2 summer dresses for under $6.00 total, tax included!

Yep, I had another interview.  And I must say, I pray I don't get this job!  The interview itself went really well.  I like to mull over my interviews afterwards and consider what I should or shouldn't have said.  This one is probably the only interview that I didn't walk away thinking about all the things I did wrong.  Nope, can't think of a thing.  If nothing else, all these interviews have given me some good practice. 

The posted hours for this particular company are M-F 8-6 and S 10-3.  In actuality, I'd be working until 8 or 8:30 every weeknight and until 4 or 4:30 on Saturday.  Six days a week.  Considering it would take me about a 45 minute commute one way, I don't know how I'd ever have time for a personal life outside of work.  And it truly wouldn't be fair to my boys.  That's potentially 13 hours a day that I wouldn't get to see them and they wouldn't be able to go out.  That's just not acceptable to me!

I may have one saving grace though - the interviewer asked what the least amount per hour I'd be willing to accept would be.  I told her and she said that the previous girl who worked there made "considerably less."  Yes, she emphasized "considerably less!"  I don't know for a fact and didn't ask but I'm guessing she probably only made minimum wage.  With all that overtime, I could possibly still make a decent living off minimum wage but I just don't think it would be worth it. 

I'm on unemployment and if I'm offered the job, I'll be forced to take it or my benefits will be cut off if I don't accept.  I found the posting through the Department of Labor so they'll know if I don't take it.  I'm not making enough to pay my bills as it is, it would be even worse if I didn't have any kind of income coming in. All I can do is to hope and pray I don't get the job.

On the plus side, the building is located in a shopping mall strip so I walked around a little bit and found a thrift store.  I truly had no plans to buy anything and really only went in to look at the books.  Their book selection was horrid but it was right next to a rack of clothes.  Since there wasn't anything interesting in the way of books, I checked out the clothes and found 2 pretty summer dresses for just under $6.00 including tax so the day wasn't a total waste. 

I'm lazy this week and didn't do a full Blog of the Week review.  Sorry!  But I still have a blog I'd like everyone to take a few minutes to check out if you haven't done so already!

I'm Team Shelby, are you?

Mona & The Mommy

This pretty girl is Shelby.  I first became aware of her story earlier this week (I think?!). I thought I read about her on Frankie's blog first but I can't seem to find the post.  Shelby's a female pit bull that was found in a parking lot and as you can tell, she was very badly hurt.  She appeared to have been in a fight and dumped there.  She had hardly any hair but she did have lots of puncture wounds and bites.  Sadly, she lost an eye.  I've been going to this blog every couple of days for updates on her condition.  She's got a long road ahead of her and will need all the help she can get.

If you click on the link, you'll find a button to donate via paypal or you can email Mona for her address to send a check to help with the hefty medical bills.  I'm not in a position to donate at this time so I wanted to do the next best thing I can think of, which is just to bring awareness to Shelby and her situation.  If you do nothing else, please at least stop by and leave a message of support!