About Jenny

Jenny is a wife, mother, mam'ma, artist and accountant living and working in western North Carolina.

Five comics to add joy to any geeks life…

xkcd – love, math, and lunacy.
The Order of the Stick – like D&D for the artistically challenged.
Ctrl + Alt + Del – Slacker fun + video games
Dark Legacy – World of Warcraft, written by and for players
Penny Arcade – while I don’t always recognize the cultural touchstones in this comic, I “get it” often enough [...]

Window Shopping

I thought I’d clear out some of my bookmarks for things I window shopped, but didn’t (of course) buy.

Target has released the Felix Ray collection – and even though I don’t have a nautical bone in my body, I really, really like it!  I usually trend toward Coach bags, but this definitely seems more appropraite [...]

Day 60: In which there is a dearth of accounting positions

Every day I check a multiplicity of job search websites.  From what I can tell, this is how most people look for jobs these days.  Here are a few of the places I look each day:

Monster.com
NC Department of Revenue
USA Jobs – positions with the federal government
Craigslist – mostly these jobs are “scams” to get you [...]

Intermission

I’ve let links to things I find interesting pile up a bit so this morning, I plan to clear them out:

Knitting may slow memory loss.  Quilting too. Yay!  Though it does leave unexplained my current level of memory loss.  Hrm.
I simply must own 99 Fears by super artist Nedko Solakov.  Solakov’s book came to my [...]

Zomg, college girl!!

Hearty “woo hoos!” for Ms. Milo – who gained acceptance to Western Carolina University this afternoon (contingent, of course, on her final grades after graduating from homeschool HS this summer).

She plans to live on campus (eep!) and enjoy her time studying psychology and sociology.

Grats, dear!!

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And as long as I’m posting:

…how cool is this stuff??

A Monopoly [...]

Someone has been …

Playing with blue hair dye again, and it isn’t me.  :)  Its almost as if Milo didn’t learn anything from her last “oh, look, my hands are blue!” experience.  In fact, last time – when she dyed her hands blue – she wore gloves.   This time she made some strange leap of logic that said, [...]

Some links I’d like to remember to bookmark on my laptop…

…which Els and/or Milo may also find interesting:

Areas of my Expertise

Good Evening – a blog by John Hodgman

1000 words – a Kodak presented photo blog

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Today is all about interviews for internships in Accounting. :) Think good “I’m what you’re looking for” thoughts for me today!