What Just Happened?

Journal Entry January 05. 2012


My mom is still visiting.  Of course the week that she is here NYC is freezing.  After I finished my telecommuting work we headed out to get something to eat. I've been feeling so blue about not being able to find a new job that I told her I wanted to stop by our church for the holiday vespers before we went to dinner.  When we got there the church receptionist said that vespers had ended for the season.  Really?  Even church is letting me down.  When we were waiting at the crosswalk for the light to change I noticed that we were standing next to "un-named retailor".  My mom gives me a gift certificate to this store every Christmas.  I don't know why.  It's not  a shop that I would ever go to, but for some reason she gives me the gift certificate and I buy the obligatory annual piece of costume jewelry from them.  So, when we were standing there I said "Oh, look, Mom, it's my beloved C.  I wonder if they are hiring."   Suddenly the woman standing next to us said, "What did you say?"  I wasn't even sure that she was speaking to me, so I hesitantly said, "My beloved C?"  "No the other thing."  "I wonder if they are hiring?"  "Yes!  I'm the district manager of the store and I know they are hiring."  She handed me her card and told me to call tomorrow.  What?  I've never even done retail.  Weird, but what the hell.  May-be instead of praying for an answer the Lord had set me back on the street to find the answer.