I GOT A JOB!!

So much weight off of my back, so much stress relieved.

It's a fun story, too!

Saturday I was hanging with my friend Lilly, whom I originally disliked intensely, back when her and I worked together at the Starbucks inside Super Target (the one that fired me recently). She quit a good two years before I was fired, and somehow, in the two years we were not co-workers, we became quite good friends. So, we're chillaxing at a different Target Starbucks, and talking about my job crisis and how the last three months have just seen me failing time and time again to secure employment. It was one of those conversations where words are heavier than air, and the mood comes crashing down with them. Lilly and her husband recently had a son, and so she is only working once a week. She was mentioning she had to work Monday, and I asked her if the place she works for was hiring. She said she didn't know, but did I want her to call and find out?

So I said yes, because that's the smart decision. I figured she'd ask her boss Monday, and get back to me.

No.

She calls her boss right then, and after a small discussion with Licia, hands me the phone. So I'm confused and nervous and all "uh, hi, this is Patrick?"

And she was all "no, this is the Krusty Krab."

(JK, but I had to make that joke!)

Anyway, she was like "Hi, you're looking for a job? Why don't you come in with Lilly Monday at 7AM and you can begin training. We'll skip the interview, and you can work M-F, because we're closed on weekends. And yes, you can have the week you need off for Brickfair too."

Godsend isn't a word that is used often enough, nor is it a word strong enough to describe how perfect that situation happened to be.

Oh, and apparently I made the first community spotlight on the BZP front page. Awesome! Looking forward to see what they tap for next time!