Pictures are here

I just got my pics in the mail today. Now I need to find a magnifying glass to see them better. I bet my friends at work will be excited to see what I did for a week in California. One friend told me that Younkers is hiring cosmetics people so I applied online. It was easy until their personality assessment included math problems. I don't do math well in my head. The question, What is half of 2/3?, I had to get paper and try to recall how to multiply fractions. I mentioned this to someone at work all exicted about doing make-up full time and she was insulted that I would lower myself to selling cosmetics, that's not what I went to school for. Actually it is what I went to school for. I fail to see the difference between putting on make-up on a model verses a shopper. I'm suppose to put make-up on celebrities in movies, that is the only job a make-up artist can have, she says. Changing the subject, she is uptight and confused that I only went to school for week, what can I learn in a week. I didn't learn all the bones in the face (actually the skull and jaw bone are the only bones in the face), didn't learn all the muscles in the face, and I have to be licensed too like a hair dresser in a salon. Actually, you don't need a license to put on camera make-up. In fact 2 make-up artists profiled in Vogue never went to school, then learned tips from an artist and built their experience on that. I know what is really pissing her off, the thought of my leaving. I finally asked her, You really didn't expect me to work here the rest of my life? Some people do, she answered. Yes there are a few that work here until retirement and there are many more who get better jobs elsewhere.

Let's see, I lost my sunglasses again. This time I took them off when I arrived at work, then my coworker leaves me by myself with customer after customer coming up, so I can't recall where they ended up. I thought I put them in my bag pocket. Now, I can't find them anywhere.

Picked up niece from preschool and watched Bambi. The whole movie she asked questions (What is a meadow, Why do he do that) and I ask her to name the animals. I added the animal behavior/human emotion link to the scenes (Bambi is scared, Bambi is hurt, Bambi is happy) and had to explain what happened to Bambi's mother and what the gunshot noises she didn't understand meant. Then had to explain the forest fire, the hunters scaring the animals, the hunting dogs chasing Feline, and why the animals are running from all this. I did I my best with 4-year-old language. I didn't get to the part of why Daddy deer don't raise their babies with the Mommy deer, that is later conversation.

Cats are fine. Getting agressive when I'm on the computer about paying attention to them. Frodo is more apt to eat his treats before Precious grabs them now. Though he still needs to be petted before he comes in from the hallway when I come home, hence why Precious is grabbing his treats. The weather keeps bouncing from warm to cold. That's Fall for ya in Iowa. Well, better go. Frodo just dragged a toy to me. Later.