December Volunteer Venture

Back at the Goodwin House. I was there to wrap gifts for the residents. One of my friends met me there and we got to hang out a little bit. It was fun to wrap gifts and it definitely put me even more in the Christmas spirit.

It never occurred to me that as you get older, you might not be able to do some seemingly simple activities such as wrapping gifts. It was kind of sad, but I was definitely more than glad to be able to help :)

Pics here

i forgot...

to mention that there is a prisoner holding cell somewhere near my office. I'm thinking above. Right in front of my entrance door are police parking spots and I often see them bringing people in and out in handcuffs. In fact, during my first week, I saw someone in a jumpsuit with "PRISONER" on the back.

It's ok though, I worked at juvie before so I'm familiar with all of this stuff.

the job

So, I thought it was about time I blogged about my new job. I am a recruiting assistant for an IT company. Basically, I schedule interviews, maintain/update our status reports and try to keep things in order for my boss. I spend most of my day sitting in the office with him, in silence, except for the phone calls and occasional instructions and questions that follow.

I learned early on that my boss is an oversharer. He has told me all sorts of random TMI. From things that are supposed to be impressive (he once punched Keifer Sutherland for trying to ride his horse... long story) and things that are kind of odd (he just had to go home and change because his shirt isn't covering his stomach).

Last week, he tried to give me month-old cookies that were a gift from one of our vendors. Without even opening the box, I put them directly in the trash and said, "These aren't good anymore. They are hard as bricks now." And he responded with, "I didn't know. I don't eat cookies."

I didn't know if it was rude of me to put the cookies in the trash right in front of his face, but at the same time, my first thought was that I didn't want him to think he was doing me a favor by giving me old cookies.

Yeah, so that's my job. One fascinating moment after the other.

green pants...

I'm wearing green pants with a long gray cardigan sweater and a white t-shirt underneath. I also have on gray tennis shoes and made an attempt to accessorize with a pretty green scarf (gift from E). Unfortunately, the pretty scarf could not save the outfit. I am utterly unenthused with my outfit (and perhaps other things) and I think because of that, I did a little online shopping. I ordered 3 pairs of gray boots (1 expressly for the purpose of walking Wegman) and a pair of black pants and a black t-shirt.

I don't plan on telling J about the shopping I've done because he swears that every time he's out of town, I go on a shopping binge, which I'm still in denial about.

Anyway, I'm excited to go home and get out of this horrendous outfit. I'm going to Bikram yoga tonight so I'll have to do something about my ashy legs.

November Volunteer Venture

Yeah, so, I have no explanation (i.e. excuse) for the past 8 months of not volunteering. While I was unemployed, I should have been volunteering up the wazoo! Oh... wait, I had wedding stuff to deal with. Yeah... anyway... now that that is long behind me, (only have 5 more thank you cards to get out!) I managed to volunteer again!

Towards the end of last month, I went to the Goodwin House to help decorate for the holidays. We put up and decorated a Christmas tree and then helped hang other swag and decor around the place. It was a lovely way to get into the holiday spirit. I'll be going back in about a week or so to help wrap presents! Yay!

So, it looks like I'm finishing out the year 4/12... which is really pathetic. I'll do better next year.

Also, though it's not volunteering, I am tutoring with the Literacy Lab on Saturdays now. Fun times and a montly paycheck to boot! :)