Life moves on, slowly.

[therealkarity]

 It's been awhile since I've really used this journal. I miss it. I haven't had a journal that I updated like I did my LJ in years. I think in part I stopped updating because I was used to LJ where I had a bunch of people who might respond to what I said. But a journal is a journal, if other people read it or not. Long ago I was a kid who would keep written journals and did again when I was in high school. It would be kind of nice to keep a written journal again but I'm not somewhere I can do it right now. 

Anyway. Good things are happening.

Yesterday I turned in four applications to possible jobs and have just as many to do online. Of the places I turned them into, the two places that would be my first pick gave me positive responses. The Bath and Body Works manager said that she was making the schedule for interviews for the next week and I should be hearing something within the next week. Eddie Bauer's assistant manager was really happy to see that I had open availability. If I don't hear anything from her within a week I'll call her to check back. I turned one in to Claire's but I'm not sure how happy I'd be about working there. But the manager there said she was full staffed so I don't have to worry about working with kids all day. 

If I can get a non-seasonal job here in Richmond where my brother lives then I can move back here and things will start to happen again. I moved back to mom's because my seasonal job at Jackson Hewitt was over and she promised things would happen like she would teach me how to drive and sew. The sewing only happened because I forced it. And only to the point where I can make simple bags but nothing else. Well, I can follow patterns but stuff like zippers and circular things like a bag for my trindle seem just so complicated to me. Justin does have a sewing machine so he could teach me. He's already started my redone lessons in driving. We were going to do more but his car is throwing fits and we're both worried it is about to die on him. That's something to figure out later today. 

I'm really glad it feels like my life is moving forward again. I spent two and a half months back at mom's and I nearly went insane from the lack of ability to do things on my own, even if I did get a lot of knitting done.