Sunday, July 15, 2007

Working Girl

Buy me a drink 'cause this woman just got a job! It's been over 10 years since I have been a contributing member of the workforce so I'm a bit rusty but I know it will all come to me.

I was hired on by the school district as a teacher's aide. Looks like I will be helping students with reading and math. 6 hours per day, days off with the kiddos, summer vacations. Wooo Hooo! What could be better.

Of course, the family already has my first 12 paychecks spent on things we have had to put off buying for the last 10 years. Seems like a Wii is one of the first things on the list. If we can find one. What's the deal with that? I can understand them being hard to find during the Christmas rush but year-round? Hmmm....

On to the creative front...or not. I have been home alone this weekend so you might think I would have done a ton of knitting, scrapping, creating. You'd be sadly mistaken. Basically I slept a lot, ate substandard meals and watched some really cheesy Exorcist movies. Apparently the first one was the only really scary one.

Hey, here's a little factoid for you. The guy who played Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings is the same guy who played Billy Bibbitt in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and he also played in Exorcist III: The Legion. His name is Brad Dourif.

Back to the creativity. I did go over to a friend's house to look at her daughter's new bedroom. I am going to help make curtains and I think we are going to modify twin sheets to make the curtains. I know it's supposed to be uber easy but I have never done it before so I am really looking forward to it.

I think I am off to finish knitting my little soap saver sack thing. I can get it done today if I focus.

Happy Summer.

Monday, July 9, 2007

Yahoo avatars

I have been using My Yahoo a lot lately. Mostly to keep track of my favorite podcasts. However, I lately have started using the calendar feature and I love how it ties in to all of the yahoogroups I belong to.

Tonight I was playing there and found the cutest avatars. So this is my summer look. She's quite a bit cuter than me but it's what I fancy I would look like in my fantasy world. Cheesy, huh?

A bit of good news. It looks like I should have an interview on Wednesday for a J-O-B. It's been 10 years so I am a bit nervous but it will be good if it all pans out.

Off to dreamland.


One last thing...I meant to post a picture of the soap saver thing I talked about in my last entry. It's about halfway done here.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Ravelry accepted ME!!!

I've been accepted by Ravelry! It is completely awesome. Knitters, and crocheters, can track ALL of their projects, see how many others are working on the same projects, keep an inventory of needles, keep an inventory of stash yarn, rate WIPs (works in progress) on a happiness scale and get all kinds of ideas. You can link your blog to ravelry, link your flickr account and just have a great time.

Ravelry is still in beta stage so I am hoping it will be a huge success and last forever!

What else is new? I am working on a cute little soap bag. I picked it up here and it is completely cute. I made one in white but my dad snagged it before I even had a chance to take a picture. I'll get a picture of this one when I am finished with it.

We celebrated niece J's birthday this weekend at the cabin. She is 7! Only 7 more weeks until T's birthday and he will be 7 too. Wonderful weather and good food. Brother and I made homemade onion rings and I think we have finally hit upon the perfect method. Found that here.

C fixed my XM radio antenna in the car. Finally I can actually receive a good signal. Now if I can only get HIM out of the car so I don't have to listen to Squizz all the time. I'm more of a Sunny girl myself.