It's MOVING Day!

Ta-Daaaaaaaa, it's MOVING DAY!
.... again.

One of these days, I'll plant my feet somewhere long enough to start building my own furniture, like I want.... build a shed, like I want... and start a garden in my backyard, like I want....

Until then, I'll continue on my path of nomadic wonderment and stay on a status of temporarily wherever I find myself for the time being. Hopefully that means at least a 1-year lease of sorts.

That being said, I am fortunate to have some truly amazing friends here to help me with Project: Relocate Cori. Ali, her dad [aka Padre Lackey] and Jay showed up early this morning to lend their brawn in transferring everything from the house to the 16-ft boxtruck Ali and I retrieved from the ever-comical Walter over at Penske.

Ali caught me in a rare moment of being able to reach ceiling level outside the garage while standing on the truck's loading ramp. Excuse the fact that I look like I'm on stilts.. haha.

As much as this house will be a part of a closed chapter in my life, I'll still miss it (: 

house hugs!

Rob had to work this morning, and by the time he got back, we had pretty much cleared the majority of everything out of the house and into the truck. It wasn't long before he and I were situated in the cab and on the road, Ohio-bound. 

road trippin' ... in a penske... chyuuuup.

Fast forward 6ish hours to our final destination: Stronghold Storage in Eastgate. We got signed in, and with the help of my ever-faithful and life-saving [literally] friend Becky, got everything unloaded within a half hour. My old bosses were kind enough to let us park the boxtruck in front of their Express building overnight to avoid any awkward parking fiascos in Northside, and from there, we were off towards Clifton. Rob had never been to Skyline, so it was our pleasure to take him to one of the original Skyline's in the gaslight district of Ludlow. The review: awesome. (:

 ♪ ♫ it's skyline tiiiiiiiime ['nati folk, i know you know that jingle... ]

We're here at Becky's now.. and that, folks, is a wrap.

See ya in the mornin'.

xo | cmd

Full Moon Funkies & Some Awkward Family Photos

Ooooooooookay.... So I'm not typically a superstitious person: I don't follow any funky precepts of situational outcome determined by what color I wear or how many stray black cats cross the street. I've always thought it was kind of exhausting [& pointless, really] to live in some subconcious fear of little dogmas. If I want to open an umbrella in my house while walking under ladders, well... come get me.

Yeah I know. I'm a a rebel. ;)

Anywho - I was challenged by the course of weirdness that was my day at work today. Very early into the day, Andi took a minute and checked out the full moon schedule. Yes, that's today. It all made sense now.

My job is weird enough as it is, on a daily basis... but today may take the cake for a little while on the scale of 1 to way-wacked-out.... anyone who's ever dealt with the general public on a large scale [specifically the unemployed general public], or in HR can attest to how zany it can be.

Quirks of today, in no particular order:

xX | "Did you guys know, on your online application, that it does not accept the letter C?" - Applicant attempting to register online.

xX | In an interview earlier this morning:
"I see that you did production for 3 years?"
"Yes, I made pieces like the ones that English & British warriors of the 18th century carried into combat, to aide them whenever they needed to perform trachiotomies."
"Oh...... Of course."

xX | The girl who removed a huge fake eyelash during an interview. Just. One. The end.

xX | Interview flop #1 : Overpriveleged engineering intern who believed we were intending to scam his information and sell it to private vendors. I don't even know what that means.

xX | Interview flop #2 : RSO. RECENT RSO. Hide your kids, ya'll.

xX | "I can't make my interview because it's raining outside." - Unmotivated Associate

xX | DOPPLEGANGERS! Arsenio Hall [the muppet puppet version], Fantasia Barrino, and a llama.

xX | Temporary internet crash.

xX | Resume one-liner: "I showed workers who were working how to be better at there jobs than I am."

xX | Corn nuts. You're welcome, Linda.

xX | Kyle, being hilarious. ... Yes, Kyle, you can take a lunch break.

xX | Discovering that someone you know has launched a fundraiser for something estimated to take 3 months for completion, that requires $20k. Good luck.

... It doesn't look as hilarious re-reading it, but to mash it all together into one day definitely makes things a little stranger than the average Thursday.

To continue in the spirit of silliness, I found myself at Ali's later in the evening, along with Marianne, Damanji and Tim. Ali's dad took on some pretty heavy photography work and got some shots of us nimrods doing what we do best... goofin' off. There's no better way to explain it other than just showing it.... so uhh... yeah.

Here ya go....

Oh, I love 'em.
I'm home now, showered and ready to call this one a night. Two more days and I put my life [a.gain.] onto a moving truck and drag it across a few states. I will be so glad when my life can stop being nomadic... *sigh.

xo | cmd