Hot Dog Conspiracy

Here’s one of my oldest son’s complaints – there must be a conspiracy concerning hot dogs and hot dog buns. For as long as I can remember my son always complained about hot dogs and buns. Not that he didn’t like them, it’s just there was never enough buns for the hot dogs.

A conspiracy he’s says.

See when you are on a fixed budget one tends to lean towards the least expensive. So I always bought the hot dogs that came ten to the pack, a bit more for my money.

Now you need buns, they only come eight to a package, no matter what brand. This now leaves you with two hot dogs left and no buns! Do the math. Even if you buy 2 of each it doesn’t work – 20 hot dogs, and 16 buns.

Okay, how about 3 packages of hot dogs, that’s 30, 4 buns 32 and you still have leftover buns!! The only way it works is if you buy 4, 10 count packs of hot dogs and 8 packs of buns but you can’t afford that many all at once so you are stuck!

You have no choice – either you buy the more expensive hot dogs that only come 8 to a package, or you have leftovers.

Perhaps my son is right, it is a conspiracy to get you to buy more!

What’s with that?

Experience

I think I’ll start with the topic of jobs. Now I’m not talking about my job cuz, unlike many, I happen to like what I’m doing. I’m talking about experience. I don’t know about you but, in my search for jobs during my work life I have found the “hunt” hard and frustrating.

Let’s start with…. fresh out of school, you are now searching to find your niche in the working world. Its resumes, that you’ve learned how to write, applications and interviews one after another. Each time you hear” you have no experience”. Well, now the thought that goes through you head is…. duh! Of course I don’t! I just finished school to learn what I needed to get a job.

Time goes by and you finally get a break, that employer who is willing to take a chance on you even though you have no experience. Yeah, you landed the job, now you can get that so needed commodity, experience.

Now, here it is years later and one thing or another happens, in my case after 20 years it was business closing, and you find yourself once again on the search. Again you repeat resumes, applications and interviews. This time you hear “you are over qualified for the job”. Now you’re thinking …just wait a minute here. I couldn’t get a job before because I didn’t have experience and now that I do, I have too much?

What’s with that!

First Posting – An Introduction

The other night in passing I mentioned to my editor/LOML/Husband that there should be a place where people could go to vent. You know a place for people who don’t have either a best friend or family member they can talk to. I myself just picked up the phone and my best friend is there, to listen to me complain about well … just about anything. She’s the greatest!

Now, I didn’t think much of my comment to my editor but to my surprise, low and behold, I now have a new blog site! I think at this point and time, I have enough on my plate, so to speak, with things to do. A 40-hour work week, client’s dogs to walk, my side job with training dogs with behavioral issues, trying to maintain a house plus our entire critter clan here as well. I needed another blog to have to write for, right? Besides what else do I have to do!

The only down side I’m finding here is that I will have to choose my topics and words wisely after all I have to live with my editor!

Note: At Kritter Korner I am “Kritter Girl” – Here I am “Witchy Woman”.

The powers we women have, just display those sad puppy eyes, bat our eyelashes and say….Hoooneey…And your wishes are granted! I know all too well how well this works. Although I don’t use this technique often I know first hand for me it really works. There are times when I will use this just to watch him melt like butter, oh the power we have! Mind you now I did not use this to get this new blog/work added to my list of things to do.

Now for the topics….they are endless, from things that push your buttons around the house, work, and just in general. Any suggestions out there??

Welcome to Volcano Venting

Welcome.

This blog was created for Kritter Korner’s, Kritter Girl, (known as Witchy Woman at Venting Volcano) because she mentioned about having a blog to “vent”; so, because I believe, like Humphrey Bogart, “What Baby wants, Baby gets” – I have set this up.

As her editor, I will continue to support her in her endeavors here, just as I do at Kritter Korner.

Witchy Woman has accepted the challenge and you now are viewing the results.

Have anything to vent about? Send your vent to witchy_woman@earthlink.net.

Editor, Keith Lehman
Editor/Author/Publisher – Lighthouse Patriot Journal
Editor/Guest Writer – Kritter Korner