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March 26th, 2009 at 12:31 am

I've been keeping pretty busy the past couple days doing various things. Nothing really exciting really.

Today I did my last pet-sitting visit before my friends get back (actually, I stayed there last night and watched some more cable!) Big Grin Their cat Megan was hiding from me this morning, but as I was just about to leave, she came out and hissed at me. So I sat down and took my shoes off -- and she let me give her foot rubsies. Big Grin

My dad sent me $100 for my hotel when taking my GRE. (Isn't my dad sweet?) That's enough for 2 nights - taxes. I'm thinking about maybe making this a little mini-vacation. Yeah, like my life isn't a vacation right now, right?

But really, Abilene does have some interesting things to see, and it's one town in TX I've not been before. If I stay one or two nights will depend on how my job search is going. If I've got an interview lined up for Wednesday -- it'll be one night!

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I've kind of been disappointed with the traffic my children's book blog is getting. It went for nearly three days with NO visitors. I was beginning to wonder if it was worth it to keep going with it. Then . . . the visitors started coming back (mainly google searches) and then *yesterday* I had 8 unique views - but one of them had to have been one of those indexing robots, because I had a total of nearly 600 page views!!!!!

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I am beginning to think that sending responses to job postings on Craigslist is good for one thing, and one thing only. Job search credits for UI. Every week I've sent at least 6 or more responses (sometimes closer to 12) and I've gotten 4 interviews out of it, plus two other responses - one of which was that spam site trying to get me to sign up for online degree programs.

Yech.

There has to be a better way.

When I get back from my GRE test on the 1st, I am going to seriously start trying to figure something else out. Also seriously work on revamping my resume. I've kind of been doing *just enough* in trying to prepare for the GRE. So once that's out of the way, I can get focused again. Even if I could just find a part time job to add to my gym job - that would be great.

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A few days ago I wrote a post about the

Text is Montana Plane Crash and Link is http://thesinglefrugalton.today.com/2009/03/24/montana-plane-crash-three-degrees-of-separation/
Montana Plane Crash and how there were people on it who hit close to home for my family.

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Ok, I'm going to catch up with some blogs here, then get back to prepping for the GRE.

Toot a loo!

4 Responses to “Quick Update”

  1. boomeyers Says:
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    I recently blogged about how frustrated I was with Craigslist job opportunities. Scams abound. I can't believe how they are taking advantage of people trying to feed their families and pay their bills. Ugh!!

    Being a librarian has always been a dream job for me, but no one close offers that as a degree. Good luck!

  2. frugaltexan75 Says:
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    Hi Boo,

    Yes, CL can be SO frustrating. It is so sad how people will put stuff up there to make people hopeful that its a real opportunity.

    You could always get your master's online. Smile That's how I'll be getting mine - through University of North Texas - they have an accredited program. Thanks!

  3. monkeymama Says:
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    Have you checked local papers? Paid for ads are probably more legit overall. (Just thinking I found my current job in the paper, but that was 2001! Times have changed much I am sure).

    2 of the kids in the plane lived near here. Just read a sad article that the principal didn't know what to do with their stuff. In 30 years never had lost a child at his school. Just, so sad.



  4. frugaltexan75 Says:
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    Monkeymama,

    No, I haven't delved into newspaper job offerings - except for online, and those seem to all link to hotjobs.com or some such thing. I probably should buy a paper on Sunday and see what's there.

    You know, I hadn't even thought about the whole tragedy from the perspective of teachers and principals. That would be horrible, trying to figure out how to deal with one of your students dying. I can't even imagine.

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