Its been way too long since I last updated this thing. Its hard to figure out what to write about when my life is just so normal. I'm pretty sure you don't want to hear about me washing clothes anymore than I want to relive it through my writing.
I've also realized that I take far too few pictures! When I do think of something to write I don't have any pictures to help me tell the story. Aarrgh!!! I know this thing is a work in progress.
Here are a few tidbits of things that have gone on in my life since we last talked and a couple of things to come.....
1. I was summoned to jury duty! I don't have to serve on a jury though. Unlike my friends who were called on the same day I was summoned by the wrong county. I don't reside there so I don't qualify. Funny thing is is that I actually wanted to serve. However, what little I did have to do was very interesting and informative. Hopefully I will be called again someday and be able to participate.
2. I love my job!!! I've been back there for about a month now after a two year hiatus. I'm trying to figure out ways to be of more help in the office. Like any job, multi-tasking is key and I'm learning how to refocus my skills. My old job was in a kitchen and multi-tasking was a different bear but I do feel like I'm beginning to move more smoothly in this position now. I'm surprised at how well I'm doing on the phone. Normally I'm terrified of talking to people I don't know. I would like say my co-workers are some of the best people I know and a delight to work with. It just goes to prove that the personalities you work with make or break the job.
I will be purchasing things for my desk soon!!! I'm SOOO excited!!
3. In the last few days I've taken up scrapbooking again. This is also very exciting!! For painful reasons I've avoided it for the past year. I began to work on a scrapbook in the fall of last year as a gift to my Aunt. A gift because it was to be filled with pictures of my cousin, Riki, who died in a car wreck in October of 2007. In the beginning pictures were something I needed to look at and then it became much too painful. I've now decided that I will inch myself back into the process.
I completed my first page two nights ago. Its title was "Going Bananas". The pictures were of my younger brother and sister as 1 and 2 year olds sharing a banana in the living room floor. Very, very sweet! I have been wanting to make a page with these pictures for a long time but never felt like I had the perfect accents for the page. Well, I finally found some really cute stickers of monkeys and bananas at the scrapbook store a few days ago and went to town. The page turned out very simple but its cute. I might add to it later but it will work for now. I've got to get the creative waters stirring before I can do the pretty pages again. I'm already forming my next page in my mind! Eventually I will get back to my Aunt's gift but I want to enjoy scrapbooking again before I delve into the hard stuff.
4. My family and I will be going to my grandparent's lake house this weekend!! We will say goodbye to the summer in fashion. Our time will be filled with riding in the boat, swimming, visiting with my 21 year-old brother, eating Mamaw's yummy food, and being lazy!! We've looked forward to this for a while now. This weekend will be so nice!!
NOTE: Please pray we find the hamster before this weekend comes. Cuddles, otherwise known as The Houdini Hamster, has been missing for a few days now. He is your classic escape artist and has found many ways to free himself from his cage and ball. This is not good for a family with several cats or a little sister who wants her pet back!!
I will leave you with a photo of some pretty flowers. I took the picture about a month ago in someone's back yard. Enjoy!!!
-Danielle
