Blagojeviching

Ahhhhh....'Blagojeviching' could take on so many meanings! It could be defined as the obvious -- 'being underhanded and corrupt'. It could mean 'making tv cameos as the role of the fool', as he appeared last night on David Letterman, or as he did in 2006 on The Daily Show, to name only two examples. It could even mean 'considering offering Oprah Winfrey a vacant Senate seat'. However, I'm going to use it henceforth to mean 'displaying a narcissistic personality disorder'. Did you even know that several psychologists believe that his hairdo is a sign of just such a thing? On the one hand, his actions stir up a lot of anger inside, and a disbelief of his cries of innocence. On the other hand, watching him on Letterman last night almost made me pity him. I think I felt it most when he very first sat down with Dave, all nervous and jittery as he was, and he said something along the lines of, "I've been wanting to be on the Letterman show in the worst way!", and Letterman quipped, "Well, you certainly are on in the worst way!" I found it immensely funny, and yet that's when I felt pretty bad for the guy in that, here it was his dream to be on the show, and did he have any idea what he was in store for? Poor guy is so clueless in a lot of ways.

It's so beautiful outside today -- sunny and bright, a cloudless sky -- but man, is it COLD!

So I haven't blogged in a week. For one thing, I've actually been called in to work a few times. That's a great thing! I'm very thankful for that. However, there has been no work for 3 days now. Anyway, speaking of work...the last two times I worked, I worked the closing shift. There's been a lot of action after closing lately, so I wonder what I've missed these past couple of days! First, I came out of work on Saturday night and a woman was walking as though the ground beneath her feet was experiencing seismic energy of a 5.0 on the Richter scale. Apparently she had come out of the restaurant next door after "just a couple of cocktails". I was watching her and turned my head to say something to a co-worker I was walking with, when suddenly we heard a huge thud! I said, "She just went down." Sure enough, I couldn't see her anymore on the horizon. We walked a little further and there she was in a heap by her car's back wheel. A few other people had been in the parking lot at the time, and gathered 'round her. Someone called 9-1-1 and by the time I exited the parking lot, two ambulances and a firetruck were arriving. Of course, the woman said she was just fine to drive.....it was really quite tragic. Who might have been killed that night by her driving, had she not fallen down in the lot? Whew....scary and very sad.

The next night, another co-worker and I were leaving work after closing, and about to get into our cars on the rooftop parking lot. We heard a scrrrrreeeeeeccccchhhh......BAM! and we went running across the rooftop in our heels to peer over the edge of the wall. There, just below us, was a big smash-up. I said, "I better go home the other way." People gathered around, and a couple of minutes later the one guy in the SUV was screaming quite loudly and repeatedly. Only, I kinda think it was out of anger rather than pain, especially since it was expletives. Once again, all the ambulances and EMS vehicles showed up and blocked that intersection. So much negative activity in the span of a couple of days! I wonder if alcohol might also have been involved in the smash-up, since it was Super Bowl Sunday.

Ahhhhh, Super Bowl Sunday. So, who caught any of the Puppy Bowl, with the Kitty halftime show?? I was working, so I didn't get to see any of it. Oh, but...I guess most of you watched the football game (it WAS football, right??) Two things about it.... it sort of makes you wonder how we have such huge corporations and businesses having to lay off people from their jobs, and yet the money is there to spend $3M on a 30-second commercial?? Ummm... am I missing something? The other thing is, I was thrilled to hear that the commercial that got voted 'best' was by the amateurs!! Isn't that ironic? The almost-no-budget commercial that they created is what won them a million dollars, I think...right? Good for them!

So I had that job interview in Brentwood last week on the day of the huge winter storm that shut down the Nashville area. I drove about 35 minutes (plus another 10 of getting lost, missing my turn, and backtracking) and arrived at the interview 10-15 minutes early. The office was locked, the lights were out. No one was there. No one had the courtesy or the professionalism to call me to cancel the interview. I waited in my car another 45 minutes, just in case they were late getting to work because of the roads that were not icy nor had any snow on them. Still nothing. You might think that this office would call the next day and apologize profusely and try to reschedule the interview. Nope. I waited half the next day for a call. Finally, I called them to ask what happened. They simply explained that their office had been closed for two days, starting the day before my interview. No apologies. Nothing. In fact, at first they thought I was a customer and they asked me which office I regularly visit. Can you imagine running a business like that, where you don't notify your customers who have appointments or potential job candidates that you will be closing two days due to weather forecasts??! I won't mention the name of the company, but....it's a laser hair removal facility located in Brentwood! It blows me away how unprofessional and uncaring they were, and what a lack of common courtesy they displayed. If I were looking for such a facility, they certainly wouldn't get my money!

I need a haircut. Badly. It's been almost 6 months. In this economy, however, it's not at the top of the priority list. Also, when the time does come, I need to have found a very reasonable place to visit and hope they also do a good job. When my hair gets to a certain length, it starts to flip up on the ends. I once had a hairdresser tell me that I was lying about that. (What would even be the point of that?) She also told me that I was looking like Mrs. Brady on The Brady Bunch. Whatever; the point is, it's really time again for a cut. So if you have any place you can recommend, send the info my way!

I'll save my news on being frugal and the life of an empty nester for my other blogs. (Go visit them if you want! The links are located in my 'Profile: About Me in this blog!) Now you all go and be thankful for your jobs, for your electricity and heat (there are still tons of people in KY without any) and go try to make lemonade out of the lemons if that's all you have right now!