Thanksgiving

As my family and friends make their Thanksgiving preparations, my holiday season is feeling a bit anchor-less. How do you start the Christmas shopping season without Black Friday?

Thankfully, I'm distracted by more mundane activities this week: a crisis has been solved.

After sending out several museum and archives-based applications, I started looking for local jobs while the review committees do their work. This has been a walk down memory lane. Remember looking in the newspaper to find jobs? Walking down the street and handing resumes to anyone with a sign in the door? I've found that this is a more successful way to search for local work than using online methods. (Come to think of it, our interet connection is probably quicker than expected because no one else in this neighborhood is networked.)

As I wandered up and down the side streets of Geelong looking for those golden "help wanted" signs, the farther I got from the city center shops, the more interesting the stores became for a bargain hunter like me. I'm still on the lookout for a few household basics. Case and point: since I've arrived here, I've used my duffel bag as a make-shift drawer stored under the bed.

This week, I finally found a nightstand to take it's place.

8$ !!!
(and the little jar - 2$, and the folded pillow case - 1$, and the picture I made while I was experimenting for my decorating projects)

and a large bowl (I was needing a mixing bowl, but this glass one can serve multiple purposes for the time being.)

10$

and I discovered a Discount Bookstore. I might have died and gone to heaven - it was huge! I decided it was time to delve into 20th century Australian history when I found:

5$

To round off the day, I also got a strong lead on a management position. Talk about counting your blessings. 

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.