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Wednesday,
July 2, 2008
Sigh. No pictures of beads taken today. Computer and email catching-up
and maintenance has taken all the time I was going to use in setting
up a photo station and taking pics. Now the timeframe seems to be Sunday.
Max has decided we need to go back to the Harriman house this weekend.
No surprise, we do; big surprise, it's tomorrow. So we'll do the Herring
family July 4th picnic and get to see our son, Joshua. Yay! I haven't
seen him far too long.
Today's hours were eaten up by trying to reacquaint myself with my
webhost and my email accounts, both of which have been sadly neglected
during the last year. Sigh. I'm afraid I'm lost on the obsession with
sex and the size of my penis - 2455 emails about it. Does anyone
actually respond to those things????? Now if I can simply remember how
to work with my php database, I'll be set.
Tuesday,
July 1, 2008
Yay! I've gotten my new computer loaded with all the old stuff, including,
but not least, my website software. Right after the move to Memphis,
my laptop died, and it's taken me quite a while to get this new one
loaded with the software I needed to update the site. As you can see,
I had an update at the end of March, but then the crash happened. It
never got uploaded.
In the meantime, I set up my studio and worked a bit, but discovered
that the ventilation was totally inadequate. mmmm, what to do? I switched
my bedroom with the workroom. Whew! What a job. Still have a bit of
work to do straightening things up and finding places for things. The
torch was crying for me though, so I've spent a week getting my mojo
back. It's dismaying to realize it's been nearly a year since I've worked
glass.
I still haven't gotten the setup right for taking pics. I hope to do
that tomorrow and upload some pics of last week's beads. They're loverly.
Jill and I decided we'd like to try vending at a local show. So we've
signed up to vend at the Cooper
Young Festival to be held in Memphis on September 13, 3008. She
did the registration, and we'll be at booth A139, under the name Jilly
Beads. Now we're driving each other nuts trying to get it together for
the show.
Apparently, this move is exactly what I've needed. I'm finding I love
it here. Our location is perfect for right now - just off Germantown
Parkway and about a mile south of the Interstate. It's wonderful being
within a mile of almost any store I could desire. Our place is nice,
and the landscaping is lovely. Our views are gorgeous. Inside, I'm totally
adopting minimalism. How did I ever collect as much stuff as I had!
There's very little stuff in storage that I'm missing. mmmm, maybe it
should just go away? A lot easier to clean this place than the old one,
by far!
The people here are very friendly and seem happier. I don't know how
many times people in stores have stopped to help me (reaching things,
measuring things in Home Depot, etc.). It surprises me everytime. Generally,
more strangers smile and greet you in passing here. People in the stores
seem to laugh more. Clerks are more helpful and less standoffish. I
react to that by being happier and nicer myself. That's a sad reflection
on my last location.
Well, that's all for now folks. 'S late and time to close it down
for the day.
Friday,
March 28, 2008
Wow! It's been nearly year since I've updated my blog. So much has
happened, it would be waaay too boring to write all of it. The short
of it is that our lives have changed dramatically - we've moved across
the state to Memphis, Tennessee.
Max accepted a job at Campbell Orthopaedic Clinic and started working
there July 1, 2007. I was laid off in June 2007. If one has to be laid
off, well, an ideal time is when your spouse just accepted a job on
the other end of the state. So, although a shock, my lay-off came at
an ideal time.
Max moved to Memphis to begin work. I moved from our house in Harriman
to the house we were renting out in Oak Ridge. I spent from July to
December renovating that rental house. It seems like quite a while to
spend on a renovation, but I did a huge majority of work myself without
help. From now on, I never want to renovate a house again. Give me a
new house, yes, sir. No fixer-uppers ever again.
In December 2007, I moved back to the house in Harriman to pack our
stuff up and get us set for the household move to Memphis. Criminy,
you can't imagine the stuff I got rid of. Hey! I finally let go of my
prom dresses from the 70's. We have a new motto - Minimalism!
We moved into our new apartment in Memphis at the beginning of March.
I've spent the last few weeks unpacking and settling in. Max has spent
the last month in a cast because he tore his Achilles heel on the next-to-last
day of the big move.
My internet connection from about December until March was none. So
this update is as soon as I had a connection and a brain to do it. (July
1 note: the connection was there, the brain barely, and the computer
died - update never happened.)
