"you will be glad that you decided to get on with it"

Someone has laid claim to the bauble necklace of fish bells and candy-colored elephants that Linda Sue sent. "It's a belt for dolls!"

The law is, ALL the things that come to the house are the property of Girlettes. However, many things they do not want, so you can have them. Also, they are good at sharing. They really are no trouble at all.

Linda Sue also wrote me the best encouragement about leaving my job--that I would find a good job, and then...
"you will be glad that you decided to get on with it".

I anticipate this is true.
Big Boss did indeed do job performance reviews yesterday. I always like talking to him about religion, and it was kind of fun. 

I was nervous of his intentions though, so I framed our meeting from the start--not only sending him my blog entry beforehand, but starting by talking about the spiritual challenges of witnessing the decay and degradation across the street, culminating a couple months ago in shootings and murder.

So, that was truly good--that's a place he and I have always met---"Where is Adam?" he said.
That is, in the Bible story, when Eve and the serpent were doing there thing, Adam was right there too. Why did he remain silent, and afterward blame them?
"Who, me?" Like he didn't know what was going on.

"I didn't know" = the oldest weasel.

BUT, everything he said about our workplace confirmed my desire to leave.
I won't go into it. Same old, same old.

I'm grateful thought that I did manage to make a good case for maintaining BOOK's when I leave.
I didn't say I was job hunting, but it naturally came up that I am almost 63 and won't be here forever.

He asked me if what I do is replicable, and I said yes, but you have to hire someone who KNOWS books.
"Nothing I do is unusual if a person is familiar with libraries and bookstores. The areas are based on Library of Congress subject headings--but it's not that easy to sort books into categories if you don't know them."

And then I pushed the marketing aspect:
"We sell an average of 2,000 books and magazines a month--that's a lot!"
I told him how often I hear praise of BOOK's from customers---and that people come to the store because of our gem of a bookstore inside.

He agreed--he hears praise for BOOK's too, and he knows other thrift stores don't do what we do.

I can't control what comes next.
But it'd be a dream part-time job for a lot of people, IF he will make the effort to look, and not just stick anybody in. (His normal hiring style.)

Afterward I went out with Abby, my coworker whose career was in Special Ed--she has an MA specializing in autism. She's a great coach for me--and cheerleader. She has consistently said I'd be great at the job--gives me lots of constructive praise.

I've said I'd leave the job with no friends, but that has changed--through this job hunt, we've talked a lot about our lives, and Abby has become a friend.