Today has been one of those weird days.  It's mid-sixties and sunny, which means I can finally be outdoors.  I used the warmth spurt to Rain-X my Mustang's windows--the stuff is awesome for repelling rain so you rarely have to use your wipers, and makes scraping off ice a breeze--and attempted to scrub the fogginess off the headlights.  I tried ( Read more... )

  I had a phone interview with the company Dad works for yesterday afternoon.  I was one of twelve applicants.  Today HR is going to submit the resumes she feels are suitable (believe she said 10 of 12) to her boss to look over and narrow for face-to-face interviews.  The earliest I will hear is this coming weekend.  Part of me really hopes to ( Read more... )

  Heh...poor Dan.  This week's drama involves being sick thanks to the stress of last week's viewing and funeral for his grandpa, and the fact that most of his relatives were sick.  He's got this nasty cough thing that also involves a little bit of a runny nose, and it's taking away his voice.  We went to Arni's for an impromptu Valentine's ( Read more... )

 Okay.  Apparently, LiveJournal now refuses to accept my pasting materials from a Word Doc.  Dan's going to send me a copy of the story and I'll try it again on Mom's Mac.  Until then (and even after) you can see the story at my BlogSpot, Elemental Storyteller: okkirbyblog.blogspot.com.  The trooper endured two rounds of editing, and wrote even ( Read more... )

    Be praying for Dan and his family...he lost his local grandpa on one side of the family and his great-aunt on the other this weekend within a day of each other.  It's going to be a hard, long week for them.
    Our Bible Study had a great Super Bowl party last night.  Tons of good food and good people to be with.  It more than made up for being ( Read more... )

  I house- and pet-sat for my sister and brother-in-law this weekend so my sister could go to Illinois where  my brother-in-law is working and spend some time with him.  He's suddenly started having a hard time of it again and his crew have been resentful towards him for making them work and have been badmouthing him.  He found this out because he' ( Read more... )

It's been a wild set of hours since about 8pm last night ( Read more... )

Spent the majority of the day cleaning.  Not just picking up the random stuff on the floor, but taking everything down, dusting, polishing, reorganizing, and rearranging.  I reconnected my ancient Compaq and booted it up to check it over, so now I've got something I can write on.  I took apart and washed one of my silk flower arrangements to get ( Read more... )

The last couple of days have given me time to work on some projects for my blog: Simply Adorned Jewelry.  I've gotten two pink illusion necklaces done to give a friend who wants one a variety to choose from given she wasn't very detailed in explaining what she wanted, and learned a new stitch technique: the twisted tubular herringbone, with which I ( Read more... )

  So I've spent the morning job searching and applying again.  Currently also cleaning the shower, getting ready to do a load of laundry, brought the orchid pot in off the porch to repot Mom's everblooming Dendrobium Green Elf into the much-needed larger space (pot has to warm up first), and am planning out a couple new necklaces for my jewelry ( Read more... )