Fare Thee Mel

In June  I got a new job and I was extremely excited to be leaving the old one which was very toxic to me and caused me undue stress. Here ...

Although today is a Saturday it is the one month anniversary of the date I started my new job . I have to admit that I struggled a little th...

This may have been my first week since I started blogging where I did not post midweek. That’s Ok though. I have a new job and that requires...

Today was my first day at the new job. So far so good. I shared my blog with former coworkers which meant having to be careful if I wrote ab...

I got the job! I found out yesterday afternoon. Since I wanted to call my husband and Useless was right there in the next cubicle, my cowo...

On Saturday I ran the Freihofer Run for Women 5k. My daughter ran it as well. Here are my results: My pace was 11:12 and I was number 12...

Yesterday I wrote a long post about my annoying, miserable bosses. Then I reread it, fine tuned it, added a picture, previewed it, reread it...

Books Author Herman Wouk died last week. He was nine days shy of his 104th birthday. His major works include The Caine Mutiny which won the...

I had a job interview yesterday! Last week I wrote a post about how I submitted  three job applications . In that post, I wrote about turnin...

I am an avid reader and my favorites are fiction and self-improvement books. I just finished reading You are a Badass at Making Money by Je...

I took today off work and boy, it sure feels great having a three day weekend. The weekends are just too short, don’t you think? At the jo...

The summer in between my sophomore and junior years of college, I didn’t have anything lined up in the way of a job, so l signed on with a t...

Monday started with a good plan of action. If you read my post welcoming the month of April I had some solid April goals. Go positivity! I...

Last week work was crazy; it’s a busy time for us. It’s important to stay calm but sometimes the job can be frustrating! The other day I was...

The way I feel about work more often than not 

One of my favorite movies is “About A Boy” with Hugh Grant. In case you haven’t seen it, Hugh Grant plays Will, a self-centered, somewhat i...

I’m back to work after 12 days away - 10 vacation plus the weekend prior. It was quite busy while I was gone. Fortunately my staff (the girl...

No, I don’t mean getting fired vs. traditional retirement! FIRE is an acronym for Financial Independence, Retire Early.   This movement has...