Fake It Till You Make It

Interviews Always Feel like a Game

I've put a lot of effort forth since I was laid-off in posting my resume, searching for jobs, and contacting companies about their job openings.  I've already had several phone and face-to-face interviews.  There are two openings in particular that I am supposed to hear back from this week that would be great opportunities for me.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed.  If it doesn't work out I'll go back to actively applying to openings.  It's nice to see companies take an interest in me, which gives me hope.

In my free time I've been going nuts on Pinterest with my home decorating and inspiration boards.  I can't wait to get my hands on a new home, so I can put some of these ideas to work.  I feel like a creative bundle of energy waiting to bust loose on some unsuspecting house!  However, none of that can have a chance of occurring until our current home sells.  Here's a link to my 'Dream Home' inspiration board if you care to check it out.  I guess you could say I fancy myself a "decorator" like all of these people lately who take pictures fancy themselves "photographers".  I also have ideas of things "For The Home", which is basically items I would like to have or something similar.

Color Scheme Idea on my "Dream Home" Board

Venetian Room Divider "For The Home" Board

I've also been doing a lot of reading lately.  My current recommendation is:  "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern.  It is a book that you would read several times to pick up all the hidden and mysterious meanings.  It's quite thought provoking.  It was a book that I thought about for days afterwards, and I definitely read through it quickly because it was so interesting.  

Amazon describes the book in the following passage:  

"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. 

But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. 

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus per­formers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. 

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart."