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 Around January of 2022 the company store in Secacus, N.J closed. Some retired, some transferred to the store in Peramus, and like me, a few of us moved down the street to the clearance store or the adjoining warehouse. 

Despite it being a Tommy store, even if it was clearance, there were a few more things that I had to get use to than I expected. But as I started to understand, never mind starting to really roll with things, we got the news that they were going to close down the clearance store and the warehouse in a few months. Well more like this year by September. But since they told us one date over at the company store and then pushed the closing date up, my new mangers thought it would happen there too, and it did. 

The last day for the clearance store was June 30th. Our last day open to the public was like a week earlier. But even with the signs up saying we were closed and the name taken off the building, people were still showing up as we were pulling fixtures out of the walls.

Thanks to the fact that I managed to cling to the company for just past my 5 year mark I got severance pay for 5 weeks. I thought it was going to be easy to get a new job and didn't search for a week, even though I had started to lay the ground work a few weeks before we knew for sure we would be done at the end of June. 

So I started to look for receptionist and data entry jobs, and on the face of it, it shouldn't have been that hard. But apparently you need to have a BA to file paper work, smile at clients and answer phones. Oh, and 1-3 years experience in the field. Yes, I'm still unemployed. After my severance pay finished I filed for unemployment. After a month or two, they started to check in with me to see what I was doing to get a job and give me a lead or two. Which they should be doing since if I didn't have the little savings I do have, I would be homeless. I pay my share of rent and the lights bill and it's done. 

So I've started to apply for cashier jobs too. But apparently I'm not the only one looking for work and those great job numbers mean nothing for me. I don't want to work on the sales floor again. I don't want to travel for 2 hours in each direction for work. And since I fell down the stairs a few months back, I don't lift much of anything on my bad says and I don't have many good ones. 

After month 3 of job hunting, it's depressing. Especially when you have to dig your way through job alerts that you aren't qualified for, have already closed, are way, way too far away and even in other states, in fields that I have no talent for or wish to be in, or are outright scams to get a bit of the little money I have left, you can understand when I just take a day or two. 

But I'm still trying. I have to. I need to work. Well, I need money, but I have some standards in what I'll do for it. 

I'll let you know when I'm once again gainfully employed. 

The Weather and A Photo Of Mine

 Hi ya. 

A few days ago I woke up to near white out conditions from low visibly fog. I don't remember if it was forcasted or not, but it surprised me as I stepped out of the house on my way to catch the bus for work. 

Clearly I had enough time to take some pics, because I took a few with my phone and even sent one off right away to a friend. 

I posted one of them two days ago and it has actually proven popular and it's gotten quite a few faves. I haven't seen numbers like this in a while and the sad thing is, it's not that much. That just proves how hard it is to be seen if you aren't already famous. I'm sure the famous ones say that they worked at it too, and know that it take time for them to turn something good out too, but they already have their 10k followers/watchers so they haven't lived in the world where getting 900 views over two days is a huge deal. 

So here is my little splash in the large sea of art. 

https://www.deviantart.com/jemgirl/art/Dim-Morning-Sun-909485968

Mundane little things

 On Friday I forgot my hat. Yeah, I walk out into falling snow without a head covering. It’s a good thing I had a long scarf. I draped it over my head when the snowing picked up on my way home that night

I was off this weekend and I barely got around to touching the third bedroom/office/storage space. I had better luck on Saturday then Sunday. At least I able to move a few things around and found three sets of earbuds. Two of them wireless. I didn’t even make it into the room on Sunday.

And I “cooked” Saturday too. I fried some breaded okra that we have been holding on to for months. Some cauliflower rice that I mixes some red beans into after I steamed it.  And then there was seasoned fish that I steamed/baked in the oven. 

On Sunday night I forgot to put the trash out for pickup because we are still getting use to the schedule. 

Today, I have a dental appointment. It’s for a cleaning, but my sister is trying to wedge in a root canal or two. She has a dentist that is fast. She clams. One time, once, I turned down getting it done when I had a very rare Monday free, he is in office only on Mondays. Because my feet were killing me and I had a long week ahead of me and I just wanted the day to rest and she has not let it go and it’s turned into me dragging my feet to get anything done, dental wise. I will not rant. I will not rant.

So today when I was leaving to catch a bus this morning And I was locking the front door, I realized that I didn’t have my scarf on, Hat yes, scarf no. Guess I don’t get to hangout outside today taking pics. 

Oh well. 

Still playing Hedges everyday. I started to edit this old story of mine and reworked it into a guy telling a story and posting it over on DA for feed back. Which I don’t expect by the way. And as I posted the story I realized that I had given the date a name. I spent the second day dealing with the ending and inserting some needed formatting to separate the story he was telling from what was going on in real time and I missed whee name of the guy so for the rest of the story I just call home ‘dare’. 😆 So I know one thing to fix today when I get home.

It just about time for my cleaning, so that is it for now. 

Later. Take care. 

Good Cold Morning To Ya

I was wondering why I felt so cold. I failed to check the weather today before leaving the house. I was supposed to leave like 15 mins before I actually did. 

I was hoping that the Broadway bus would show up before too long. The transit apps don’t track it so I was just hoping it was before the bus I did know about that wasn’t showing up for like 30 mins. 

And it did. I just forgot to get off at the overpass. I was waiting for the bus to turn like the 81 does, forgetting that it didn’t. So I panicked when I saw that we were driving pass train tracks on the wrong side of the bus. 

I started to get off, when I realized that I could just stay on until we got to the next station. Below you see the station that I ended up at. 

When it’s summertime this open air concept is great. But we live a good deal north of the equator. We should have enclosed options too. But nope. They are all open to the elements. I hope I make it to work on time today and get to order and eat breakfast.