Back in the game. Sales Baby!

Whew! I just finished up day three at my new grown up First Choice Job. I can’t share too many details due to a confidentiality agreement. I can tell you that I work for a company that sells a certain high ticket item out of a Big Box store. I have two customers, the first being anyone who wants to buy my item. The second are the employees of the Big Box store, who I have to train to be my sales people. I have 12 stores.

I couldn’t be more excited for this opportunity. Everyone that I work for/with, has nothing but praise for the company and management team. I am so excited to be on board with such a dynamic team.

Since this is a new contract with this retailer for the company. we’ve spent the last few days traveling around Georgia giving our stores some product knowledge. It’s been interesting to see how receptive everyone is to our product.

I am now only working at my Plan B job one day a week, not that it is at all lucrative, but I feel a responsibility to them. I will talk more about that later in the week.

I can say that I miss my Bloggy Buddies, I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you! I expect that I will be posting a bit less, but I still intend on checking in to catch up daily. Everyone be well!

Phil Brody’s ESC,

Today’s post was made possible by my local county court system. I was able to download and begin reading the book I am reviewing due to the fact that I had to spend the better part of Wednesday in the jury pool room. I was not selected and never saw the inside of the courtroom. I was forced into a state of peace and quiet, without children, television noise, or housework. In short, I chose to do whatever the Hell I wanted (within the confines of that room, kind of). I read without interruption.

A couple of years ago, I picked up “The Holden Age of Hollywood” at my local library.  A book that’s so original, it seems to need its own genre to define it. It is one of my favorite reads from that year.

ESC: a nostalgic guide to breaking up with the corporate world to pursue what you love

I was curious when I saw that Phil Brody’s new book was a memoir, because it is a departure from his last book. Again, I was not disappointed with ESC, because it takes the memoir genre and twists it into a different kind of ball game. This book winds in, out and through time, without chronology. We meet Phil Brody at different intervals in his life. Sometimes he’s a child, sometimes a naive young adult, a jerk (or a dick, if I want to quote the book), or Carefree Phil.

Sometimes he lies. More aptly, brings you into some cool Walter Mitty imaginary scenes. The best lies involve the scenarios where he escapes from the shackles in his cubicle and the world of advertising. Quitting a job looks like so much fun through his imagination. Pulling a Peter Gibbons* and ditching those damn TPS Reports*. Breaking up with the corporate world to pursue what you love. Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta.

ESC is also a love story, a tribute to Brody’s hometown. Chicago’s character is present everywhere. When he reminisces about his youth, he brings his reader back into his Mid Western World: a world filled with dodge ball games, recess, break dancing and Haiku writing. ESC is book is for every adult who feels constricted by the conventions of adulthood, who longs for the simplicity of 7th grade, a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors,  or a first apartment. Escape is possible because Phil Brody brings us there with this book.

Bonus Haiku Tribute to ESC:

Brody Ee Es See

Read during jury duty

Read, read, read this now

* and don’t even tell me that you haven’t seen Office Space

Five Photos, Five Stories: Day Five, Sara’s Easter

Ritu from But I Smile Anyway invited me to participate in this challenge.

Five Photos, Five Stories. Like most challenges, it isn’t without rules, or better said, a loose set of guidelines:

• Post a photo each day for five consecutive days
• Attach a story to the photo.  It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or simply a short paragraph – it’s entirely up to you.
• At the end of each day, nominate one other blogger to take part

For my Day Five nomination, I’m going to nominate jin okubu for my last nomination. Go get ’em Jin

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Day Five: Sara’s Easter Egg

I can’t remember when it all began. My daughter Sara has turned dying Easter Eggs into her own artistic endeavor. Every year, it seems, the eggs are more lovely than the last. If you would like to know more about this, in Sara’s own words, head on over to hunnedo.com and check it out.

Five Photos, Five Stories: Day Four, Sonic the Hedgehog

Ritu from But I Smile Anyway invited me to participate in this challenge.

Five Photos, Five Stories. Like most challenges, it isn’t without rules, or better said, a loose set of guidelines:

• Post a photo each day for five consecutive days
• Attach a story to the photo.  It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or simply a short paragraph – it’s entirely up to you.
• At the end of each day, nominate one other blogger to take part

For my Day Four nomination, I’m going to nominate ellesuperstar from Full Circle

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Day Four: Upping the Ante on Halloween Costumes

For little Blondie’s second Halloween, I sewed his costume. He was Max from “Where the Wild Things Are”. He roared his terrible roar. Since he was little, he didn’t solicit my mad costume making skills.

Five Photos, Five Stories: Day 3,

Ritu from But I Smile Anyway invited me to participate in this challenge.

Five Photos, Five Stories. Like most challenges, it isn’t without rules, or better said, a loose set of guidelines:

• Post a photo each day for five consecutive days
• Attach a story to the photo.  It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or simply a short paragraph – it’s entirely up to you.
• At the end of each day, nominate one other blogger to take part

For my Day Three nomination, I’m going to nominate hothoneyedcocoa.com.

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Day Three:

My daughter, Sara, married her knight a few years ago. My son-in-law, Parker, is my first son-in-law. I adore him, he is a good guy and he and Sara are very much in love.

Five Photos, Five Stories: Day Two, The Pups

Ritu from But I Smile Anyway invited me to participate in this challenge.

Five Photos, Five Stories. Like most challenges, it isn’t without rules, or better said, a loose set of guidelines:

• Post a photo each day for five consecutive days
• Attach a story to the photo.  It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or simply a short paragraph – it’s entirely up to you.
• At the end of each day, nominate one other blogger to take part

For my Day Two nomination, I’m going to nominate Confessions of an Average Mom

Day Two:

For Christmas this year, my family adopted another family. And here they are:

They were barn dogs, of uncertain lineage and estimated age.

Weekend Share a Post

Early start for your networking weekend! Water’s getting warm so you may as well jump in!

And if you haven’t already, check out my new project at hunnedo.com as well as inventingreallife.wordpress.com.
Surf’s up!

Five Photos, Five Stories: Story One, North Dakota Bound

Ritu from But I Smile Anyway invited me to participate in this challenge.

Five Photos, Five Stories. It sure makes thinking up content a little easier, at least for my next five posts. Like most challenges, it isn’t without rules, or better said, a loose set of guidelines.

The Rules (which are made to be broken, or bent, or adhered to)

• Post a photo each day for five consecutive days
• Attach a story to the photo.  It can be fiction or non-fiction, a poem or simply a short paragraph – it’s entirely up to you.
• At the end of each day, nominate one other blogger to take part

For my Day one nomination, I’m going to nominate the latest blog that I’ve followed, so I’m calling out Queen Aej from Conquering My Own Castle.

Photo One: This is my son and I a few years ago hanging out at Walmart. This wasn’t just any old shopping trip. We were outfitting my husband for his new job in the oilfield.

If you don’t hear from me…We

I’m at jury duty! Timing being what timing is, my day to serve happens to coincide with my first day of work at Plan B. Since I never elaborated, Plan B is bartending. My shift starts this evening at 4, jury duty gets out at 5. I’ve notified my Plan B boss and he understands.

Episode 247: Feeling Fantastic at Fifty!

It won’t be soon, but I’m pretty sure it will be fun to welcome my friend to the other side of 50. Also, it would be a good excuse to listen to some vintage Madonna. Holiday! Celebrate!

Edwina's Episodes

After reading a post today on Inventing Real Life about whether or not a woman is ‘invisible’ once they get to the age of fifty, it got me to thinking….

I am less than a year away from the big five-o myself (sob), and I am already having mixed feelings about it. Originally I thought how lovely it would be to have a big party to celebrate the occasion. It would be a great excuse for a get-together and some cheesy music to get everyone up and dancing,

Despite my two left feet, a bit of 80s music will have me heading for the dance floor and strutting my stuff, especially if there is mostly only family there to witness my humiliating ‘moves’! This is where it comes in handy having such a large clan, it is not that difficult to fill up a function room!

Another possibility is doing a…

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