Miss Peacock Looks For A Job
June 18, 2011 in Jobsmoker, Personal, Rants
So, Miss Peacock is looking for new work. She’s wants a job that “challenges” her. (At least, that’s what I say in interviews.) I put my resume up on the classiest of all job-hunting sites, Monster.com, and got a call from a local company who loved my resume and wanted to speak to me. They asked me if I was interested in doing the same thing I currently am, to which I replied YES, thankful that someone was going to take a chance on me.
Since it’s been nearly three months since my 
After denying it for the past few years, I finally decided that I need to start dieting. When I was younger (all the way up until college, actually) I had the metabolism of a speeding train. I could eat ANYTHING I wanted and I never gained a pound. I was young, healthy, very skinny, and always active. And then I discovered one of the crushing realities of adulthood: if you are like most people, you sit at a desk for 8 hours a day, only getting up to go to the vending machine or the bathroom, where you sit on the toilet, quietly crying at the direction your life has taken.
One of my favorite things about being in a relationship was never having to leave a party alone. I would get in the warm car with my boyfriend and watch as my single friends got in their cars alone, and I felt so happy and secure because there was not an empty seat next to me in the car.
I’ve been inspired by the other Wordsmoker poets to share one of my own poems. I wrote this back in January, when my grandfather was put in a nursing home because his Alzheimer’s had gotten so bad that my grandmother could no longer take care of him. He died in June.
Since it became Wordsmoker‘s mission late last week to get Miss Peacock a date, I felt that I owed everyone a run-down of my Halloween evening.
I will start out by saying that bar-none, the most quality men can be found on eHarmony. Even the ones who cannot spell or write worth a damn tend to have some endearing quality, even if it is only a Pilsbury-Dough-Boy-like pudge to their middle section. The men on eHarmony seem to be more genuine than those on 
