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Every Hour on the Hour May 2009

May 28th, 2009 by Manda | 9 Comments | Filed in Life

This past Saturday, May 23, was May’s day for Every Hour on the Hour (EHOTH), a monthly event hosted/run by Vegetarian Option. Essentially, you take pictures every hour on the hour of your day to give a visual representation of what it is like a day in the life. Here are my EHOTH photos for May!


First thing of the day is to brush my teeth and wash my face, of course. I use the Proactiv line for my facial cleansing, Clinique’s moisture surge for my facial moisturizer, and Neutrogena’s Norwegian Formula for my body moisturizer, in case anyone was wondering.

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My Etsy Shop

May 27th, 2009 by Manda | No Comments | Filed in Crafting

I’ve thought about opening my own Etsy shop for a while, and I’m proud to say that I finally bit the bullet and have done so. I’m not looking at this as a serious business venture that will generate massive amounts of income as that would be unrealistic; I’m looking at this as a hobby/side project, an entrepreneurial experiment, if you will1. Regardless of whether or not my Etsy shop existed, I would be making crafts anyway as I’ve loved to knit, sew, cross stich, etc for as long as I can remember!

My Etsy shop can be found at disalarming.etsy.com. Currently, the only items listed are scarves knit by me with novelty yarns such as fun fur/eyelash and boucle. I’m looking at adding more scarves knit in with traditional yarns, as well as beanies and berets. I don’t want my shop to be limited only to knitwear though, so I’m looking at dabbling my hand in some other projects, one of which involves hardcover books!

I’ve set up a Twitter account for those who are interested in being notified when new items are added to my shop: twitter.com/disalarming. Feel free to follow to be updated on the status of my shop. I realize that this is all at a very bare bones, basic beginning stage, but hopefully as time progresses and I add more items to my shop, this will be at least a little successful! :)

  1. And if I didn’t try, then I wouldn’t know how it would have turned out, right? [↩]

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It Sucks to Be Unemployed

May 26th, 2009 by Manda | 6 Comments | Filed in Work

Summer vacation started for me a few weeks ago, and as I have no plans to travel this summer, I’ve been searching and applying for summer jobs. I started this process weeks ago, yet I’ve had no success so far. I’m not the only one that hasn’t had success with finding a summer job, all of my friends who are not returning to jobs they had the previous summer or know someone who knows someone are all stuck in this endless search for a summer job1.

My friends and I have each applied to 10, 12, 15 jobs in our fruitless search for summer employment. It’s not that we’re not a good candidate for typical part time positions in the retail, food, and customer service industries; each one of us are good students with relatively good work experience and strong references. It’s the fact that the summer positions that are available are down by a quarter compared to last summer, and the majority of these positions are being taken by adults that are either already in the workforce or are re-entering it and are able to work full-time and year-round, rather than part-time and only during the summer.

Unless I hear back from one of the many places I applied to and manage to successfully get a job, I guess I’m going to be out of paid employment this summer. This sucks, because not only will I not be able to earn (and save) money this summer, but I’ll also have to search for something else to do. Volunteer work is always an option, as well as continually adding to my Etsy shop, but it would be nice to have a paying job this summer…

  1. I can’t even begin to imagine what the search must be like for someone who is looking for full-time work, particularly for Class of 2009 college graduates! [↩]

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