The Plan

O.K., since the school is still in session, I still must pretend that I go there. At least, for some time until I find a great job.
So, here's the plan. I'll do it bullet-point style (just like a true business person).

* get up as usual
* get dressed in a white blouse and a black shirt (I don't think mom will notice any difference. She has been so upset 1) about her job loss and 2) about the fact that she didn't get a single phone call or email after she filled out a gazillion of resumes online!)
* wait for the school bus and tell the driver that my mom will give me a ride
* make it to downtown without raising any suspicion for not being at school

and then... and help me magic! After all, I am Liza the CEO (I know I'll be one).

Dress for success

This morning I've inspected my closet. I do have lots of crap. It's hard to imagine how much an average teen needs (I don't think of myself as an extraordinary individual. I'm average). Clothes I wear to school, clothes I wear on weekends, clothes I have no place to wear, clothes I wish I wasn't given as gift, etc. Too much! I predict this pile of clothes won't grow in the next weeks or months (you never know) Now when my mom and I must think of more importance things like paying our bill, buying clothes won't be a priority. Any way, I didn't inspect the closet just to ponder over money well spent or stupidly wasted. In fact, I was looking for something very specific and I found it. Two things, actually. A white blouse and a black skirt. Why? I have some I idea why but my plan is still "under construction." I'll return to this blog later.

Career plans?

O.K. What can I do to help? You don't have to be very bright to come up with a lemonade stand idea. Apple-picking in the neighbor's yard? Babysitting? Great careers if you are a teen but could you pay gas and electricity bills with the revenue from these wonderful jobs? Huh? I need something more serious, otherwise, our life will fall to pieces. It's already started to. Mom gave up on her knitting classes....

Dreadful pajamas

It's getting worse by the minute. Since mom has no work to go to, she already forgot that she is a woman. She has been so upset since she lost her job, that she doesn't even dress up anymore. She wears her pajamas all day long and, believe me, they don't look nice on her. Besides they are old and ugly, too washed-out. I have to do something about mom's looks. I feel bad about saying such things about her but, come on, a lost job still doesn't mean the end of life!

Rain in the house

The weather was so nice today. Finally we got some serious sunshine. Now I believe that it's late spring and I have only three weeks of school. But inside the house it did not feel like spring at all. Mom closed all the blinds and pretty much stayed in one location all day - the kitchen. She sat there for hours staring into her laptop and looking through tons of online job ads. When I came back from school, I thought mom was sleeping with her eyes open. She told me 'I'm looking for a new job.' 'Okey,' this is all I said. I didn't know what else I could say. But I feel very very sorry for her.

Craps begins

So, today it was supposed to be our usual Starbucks day. Mom and I have been doing this for a long time. Every Saturday we wake up and drive to a Starbucks in our pajamas (well, not pajamas, but whatever we grab first and put on while being half awake). It's a different Starbucks each time because we don't want the same people to see two uncombed monsters every week! The idea is to wake up in heaven drinking  (in my case smelling - I love it!) coffee. My mom buys me juice or hot cocoa and we try a new pastry. We laugh and act silly. I love traditions! Well, I think it's over. We didn't go anywhere this time and I didn't comfortable to ask mom why. I hate her boss even more now!!!:-(

True

Yeah, mom did get fired. I'm not kidding. I looked in that box she brought back from the office. Some folders, papers, her favorite coffee mug, shoes, the cactus in a pot and the biggest evidence - my picture in a frame! I don't think they want her anymore at that company. Lots of people liked her. She had friends there, they went to a bar a few times and gave her gifts on holidays. But the witchy boss was too big of an idiot to see all of mom's hard work. She still doesn't tell me anything.

Why CEO?

CEO is a person who is in charge of a company. I really want to run a BIG company because a couple of days ago my mom came home with all her stuff from work. I was surprised that she was feeling blue. She hasn't told me yet why but I'm pretty sure she got fired by her witch of a boss! I wish I had a job so that mom doesn't have to look for one.