What I Did (Am Doing) On My Summer Hiatus...

So I've been away from blogging for a while.  To be honest, my passion kind of went by the wayside when I lost my job at the bank I worked for.  But here's how the month of August and some of September was for me:

I started looking around websites to see what kind of jobs are trending and where I might be wanted.  Boston.com made a good list.

But then you find out that the site editors of their precious lists don't know that they mixed up their "Top 10 In-Demand Jobs In Massachusetts" with the "Top 10 Most Stressful Jobs".  I mean I could've caught this.  I READ!  Also, I don't know how watching a presentation and leaning toward the hot blonde next to you to invite her to dinner is how a Marketing Manager works.

 Now I don't know about you, but I don't really think that an Administrative Assistant is going to be a Bluetooth guy.  He's sitting at a desk in a lobby and making sure someone fills out all the paperwork on the clipboard.  He isn't THAT busy.  Good picture nerds.

 I also started doing some more job searching and had to submit to which kind of person I think I am.  I picked out some of the characteristics I think describe me.  But when you first open this webpage and find out "well, this company really knows how to put adjectives in a random order" and then after a while you figure out this company didn't include the words HONEST or ETHICAL, which I didn't realize until looking at it now.  I'm entering a second interview with this company next week.

You'd also think that with the left over room on one side of the screen, they'd be able to fill it with some of the words from this one.  

I continued to grow and store cucumbers.

I bartended for a birthday party in Stoughton.  It was fun.  I made more money than I thought I would.

I turned 27 while all this was going on.  I looked and felt like this^

I also had a plethura of tomatoes grow in my backyard.

I scoured the internet for more jobs and found that sometimes employers don't even care about grammar or spelling, unless they find it on my resume.  This is a screen shot from an employer in Braintree.  I have a degree in Economics, not E-comics.  (I tried to send this as a joke to two people and it flopped both times.  I'm guessing since Autocorrect exists that spelling just isn't important anymore.)

This is another harvest I had.

I barteneded a very cool wedding in New Hampshire and this was the tap of the keg beer that the groom brewed.  They weer a very generous and very loving family.  All the best to them.

I made salsa with all the tomatoes and cilantro I had.

Right now I'm still chugging away, still bartending on weekends, still saving money, still applying and networking and asking around.  I'm at the point right now where if I counted how many jobs I've applied for I'd get really depressed.  I got an email from Lowe's saying that they wanted to pursue other candidates for their part-time cashier position. I only worked at a gas station for 5 years and then at a Bank of America cash vault for another 4.  Let's hope this funk ends sooner.

Gardening Update 10

Holy Tomatoes!

Gardening 7

The zucchini plant died and I made something with the last available one.  Coming up good though.

Garden Update #6: No idea if it's really the sixth.

So the tomatoes are coming in.  The cilantro is coming great.  The zucchini have come in.  I've had three zucchini come up and one cucumber.  That one tomato is turning red.  I'm guessing that by monday, I'll have probably enough to make something.

Gardening Update #??

So, here is some gardening news: zucchinis grow faster than intended!  Plus I picked the basil, jarred it and its now in the freezer for safe keeping.  I cooked the zucchini by roasting them with some seasoning salt in a pan.  But, I didn't put down parchment paper and cut them too thick so they almost made a mess in the oven.

The tomato plants have what looks like 40+ buds (40-50 tomatoes) on it and are growing out of control.  I had to put stakes in the ground so that the plants will now grow up instead of grow out.  I think my neighbors would like it if I didn't have tomato plants growing into their plants and sucking up all the water.

The rabbit that I spotted last time isn't eating anything, which is nice.  The peppers are coming in nice as seen.  The Cilantro, lettuce, and the Mint are growing well.