As fate would have it the really great daycare I tried to get little man into earlier when the whole job thing was in full force finally had an opening. Barb, the daycare provider, has the perfect location, demeanor, price - pretty much the total daycare package, so I had to jump at the opportunity. Thanks again Shelly for the insider information.
So little man starts daycare next Monday and can't wait, Barb has a Golden Retriever puppy named Casey who is just adorable (his dad is in all of the Target ads), plus there is another really cute little blond - Nicole.
Now that JG will be gone pretty much the entire day I figured I should look for something more productive to do other than wandering aimlessly through Pottery Barn and Anthropologie (I think they were beginning to worry about the lady who would come in between 1:00 and 3:00 any given weekday). The Cargill thing is still in the hopper, but they are waiting for budget approval which could take who knows how long, so I decided to go to a few companies and check on temp/contract work.
I had to laugh because I went to a temp agency where I had to take Microsoft Power Point, Excel and Word tests. I put down on my information I was advanced in the products, but didn't tell them I haven't really used any of them in the past three years with the exception of sorting tennis competition and putting together a Turkey Bingo flyer. Needless to say I was a little nervous.
When the test started I tanked the first question right off the top, I found out the test didn't allow for any right mouse clicking (not very efficient - I told the girl monitoring the tests that!). Anyway, rather than get into a debate just got about my business there were some dreaded pivot table questions and icky table of content questions with field codes. Let's just say I wasn't really looking forward to my results,
In the end I found out you had to have scored an 88% on each of the tests to be considered an expert and Microsoft Certified.
I got a 92%, 95% and 95% - plus a pretty good laugh, guess I still have "it". Whatever "it" may be.
So little man starts daycare next Monday and can't wait, Barb has a Golden Retriever puppy named Casey who is just adorable (his dad is in all of the Target ads), plus there is another really cute little blond - Nicole.
Now that JG will be gone pretty much the entire day I figured I should look for something more productive to do other than wandering aimlessly through Pottery Barn and Anthropologie (I think they were beginning to worry about the lady who would come in between 1:00 and 3:00 any given weekday). The Cargill thing is still in the hopper, but they are waiting for budget approval which could take who knows how long, so I decided to go to a few companies and check on temp/contract work.
I had to laugh because I went to a temp agency where I had to take Microsoft Power Point, Excel and Word tests. I put down on my information I was advanced in the products, but didn't tell them I haven't really used any of them in the past three years with the exception of sorting tennis competition and putting together a Turkey Bingo flyer. Needless to say I was a little nervous.
When the test started I tanked the first question right off the top, I found out the test didn't allow for any right mouse clicking (not very efficient - I told the girl monitoring the tests that!). Anyway, rather than get into a debate just got about my business there were some dreaded pivot table questions and icky table of content questions with field codes. Let's just say I wasn't really looking forward to my results,
In the end I found out you had to have scored an 88% on each of the tests to be considered an expert and Microsoft Certified.
I got a 92%, 95% and 95% - plus a pretty good laugh, guess I still have "it". Whatever "it" may be.
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