Mud pie Mondays
"This little piggy went to the market. This little piggy went to Starbucks. This little piggy rallied on the street for animal rights. This little piggy stayed home and wrote her dissertation on social media and social movements, while this little piggy ran all the way home wheeeee. *tickle tickle*"

I think that's how the song goes or that is at least how I sang it to the two year old girl I watched on Monday. My friend Darian couldn't make a babysitting sessh, so I covered at the last moment. Figured I could use the extra cash since I didn't work on Easter Sunday. It was a little nerve racking at first...kids...what...baby what do I do with that for FIVE HOURS. But turns out it wasn't that terrible. Watched one episode of Barney-couldn't take anymore than that. **Dear Mom, I am sorry that as a five year old I was obsessed with that must be botoxed induced overly smiley purple dinosaur. And you had to sit through hours and hours and hours of clean-up songs** After purple torture, we colored and played cars. When the rain stopped, we made mud pies and swung. Then nap time. Glorious nap time. Though must say it all wasn't to terrible but def could not do it every day. The next day my friend Darian told me how shocked the mom was that Izzie-the girl-didn't cry when she left because she always cries. They said I have great energy, kid energy and Izzie synced it. uhhh thanks I think. But I guess that's good when that comes in the far far far far far far future.

Easter in LA
I went to church for the first time since I have been in LA on Easter Sunday. The church was called Ecclesia and was on Hollywood Blvd, which was kinda weird because I was just out there 8 hours earlier dancing. I loved the church though! The pastor was young, real and a great speaker. There was no southern baptist heaviness and traditionalness. Also, it was wonderful to see a crowd that looked like me. Young adults no overwhelming amount of high school and middle school kiddies or 50 and up parentals. And it was small, I do love me some small church. I hope to go back. It is just hard because I work Sundays 11-3pm main church going time and I know I was hired specifically for weekends. Hmmmm possibility to look into night church activities.

Over here on the west coast things have been rollin pretty normal. I am all moved into my new home for the next couple of weeks. Its quite quaint. Great view and great cottage cuddles via the golden retriever Mountain. He reminds me of my Travis. I miss him oh so much. BUT there is some very very very exciting news in the works. Last week I interviewed with my two top jobs a.k.a. Sam's dream jobs!! On Monday I had a 10 minute interview with Invisible Children for the Facility and Production Manager position in Uganda then on Friday HandCrafting Justice, an online fair trade retailer, called to briefly speak to be about the Operations and Marketing Manager position I applied for. Finally some bleeps on the job radar!!

Realtime Update:
IC-I should be hearing from IC today about whether I move forward in the process, which would entail an interview with most likely IC Business Ops VP and Missions Director then 2-3 people are selected to interview with the Ugandan Logistics team, so still a ways to go. BUT yesterday, I contacted Tiffany, HR Director who I interviewed with, to follow-up with her because I was supposed to be contacted this past Friday. Gotta say that was the most nerve racking thing I have ever done. I wanted to cry after I got off the phone. The convo went really well though, I stayed calm and got across what I wanted. It def isn't gonna hurt me. *fingers crossed for a very exciting call today*
HCJ-Maureen, the director who interviewed me Friday said she wanted to put me in the pool of candidates that the Board was gonna review. She didn't give me an exact timeline, so I'll probably contact them-email/phone haven't decided yet-at the end of this week or beginning of next. It would be amazing to work with them too!! HCJ is a small FT retailer with lots of room for improvements. I def wouldn't ever call their marketing or product selection uptodate, but no fear thats where I come in : )
They are like many FT companies all about the ethnic shit and ridding too much on that slide. There needs to be a move towards more than a cheesy/unique gift market and to providing substantial products customers need themselves not that they just give to others. **oh and Ams this position is in Queens. Yay for being closer to you. And Julie if I get this job, I think I am going to need you to teach me some of your self defense moves. I'll have to toughen up if I move to Queens, NY.

It is getting exciting guys. I have a feeling April and May are going to be quite interesting months...for all of us-especially since lil Miss Buttmunch will becoming Mrs. Buttmuch quite quite soon.

I love yall. Update Update I need some reads. I miss my weekly life columns.