Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Monday, February 04, 2008
Another Twist In The Road.... Like-- Cross Country?
Well, I WAS doing great getting "My Personal Assistant" going-- but then, Joel lost his contract job in South Carolina (that was good news, believe me!) Then, in his search for the next job, he found one-- but it was 2500 miles away-- in San Jose California.... so I had to decide if I would let him commute from so far away or go with him. I went with him. We left North Carolina December 26th, and got here to San Jose January 1st, stopping for two days to see our son, daughter in law and grandchildren in Los Angeles along the way.
Several people have asked if I am going to start a new "My Personal Assistant" and no, I am not. First of all, Joel has just agreed to work at this job for a year, and he does not want to retire in California. Second of all, I decided I have always wanted to paint. So-- that is what I am going to do. So watch this space for my painting pursuits and results. I will post pictures, I promise!
Several people have asked if I am going to start a new "My Personal Assistant" and no, I am not. First of all, Joel has just agreed to work at this job for a year, and he does not want to retire in California. Second of all, I decided I have always wanted to paint. So-- that is what I am going to do. So watch this space for my painting pursuits and results. I will post pictures, I promise!
Thursday, October 18, 2007
My new company-- My Personal Assistant!
It's been a long time since I've written in this blog, but my excuse is: I've been a busy gal!! Here's what's been going on this year alone:
In January, 2007, I started a small business as a "Concierge". I help seniors and disabled people with tasks that help delay having to move to an assisted living facility. I say "If it's not illegal or immoral, and you need help with it, I'm there!"
In February, I became involved with a group called "MOMS-I.N.C." (Moms Improving Nutrition For Children). The goal of this group is to get schools to eliminate sugar and trans fat from school lunches. I am the webmaster of the MOMS-I.N.C. website.
In March, I started a craft group in my home that is a great source of inspiration, skills transfer for all our members, as well as so much fun in terms of getting together with some great people!
In May I was the North Carolina Delegate for The Daughters Of The British Empire, in Long Beach, California. It was soooo much fun!
In August, I joined a "Business Networking International" group close by in Cary, North Carolina. What a great group of people!
In September, a friend took me to a "Cary Leads Group" which is another group whose purpose is to help small businesses with business referrals.
Today, October 18, I signed up to be a Melaleuca representative. I am so excited! The products are awesome, and ecologically and as far as biologically less harmful, so far beyond what is out on store shelves! Can it get any better?? Contact me for more information about this great company, and awesome products.
In January, 2007, I started a small business as a "Concierge". I help seniors and disabled people with tasks that help delay having to move to an assisted living facility. I say "If it's not illegal or immoral, and you need help with it, I'm there!"
In February, I became involved with a group called "MOMS-I.N.C." (Moms Improving Nutrition For Children). The goal of this group is to get schools to eliminate sugar and trans fat from school lunches. I am the webmaster of the MOMS-I.N.C. website.
In March, I started a craft group in my home that is a great source of inspiration, skills transfer for all our members, as well as so much fun in terms of getting together with some great people!
In May I was the North Carolina Delegate for The Daughters Of The British Empire, in Long Beach, California. It was soooo much fun!
In August, I joined a "Business Networking International" group close by in Cary, North Carolina. What a great group of people!
In September, a friend took me to a "Cary Leads Group" which is another group whose purpose is to help small businesses with business referrals.
Today, October 18, I signed up to be a Melaleuca representative. I am so excited! The products are awesome, and ecologically and as far as biologically less harmful, so far beyond what is out on store shelves! Can it get any better?? Contact me for more information about this great company, and awesome products.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
The Craftin' Life
It's been a long time since I've written in this blog, but my excuse is: I've been a busy gal. Here's what's been going on this year alone:
In January, 2007, I started a small business as a "Concierge". I help seniors and disabled people with tasks that help delay having to move to an assisted living facility. I say "If it's not illegal or immoral, and you need help with it, I'm there!"
In February, I became involved with a group called "MOMS-I.N.C." (Moms Improving Nutrition For Children). The goal of this group is to get schools to eliminate sugar and trans fat from school lunches. I am the webmaster of the MOMS-I.N.C. website.
In March, I started a craft group in my home that is a great source of inspiration, skills transfer for all our members, as well as so much fun in terms of getting together with some great people!
In May I was the North Carolina Delegate for The Daughters Of The British Empire, in Long Beach, California. It was soooo much fun!
In August, I joined a "Business Networking International" group close by in Cary, North Carolina. What a great group of people!
In September, a friend took me to a "Cary Leads Group" which is another group whose purpose is to help small businesses with business referrals.
I have several great clients- in fact, my schedule is quite full. I love what I'm doing!
In January, 2007, I started a small business as a "Concierge". I help seniors and disabled people with tasks that help delay having to move to an assisted living facility. I say "If it's not illegal or immoral, and you need help with it, I'm there!"
In February, I became involved with a group called "MOMS-I.N.C." (Moms Improving Nutrition For Children). The goal of this group is to get schools to eliminate sugar and trans fat from school lunches. I am the webmaster of the MOMS-I.N.C. website.
In March, I started a craft group in my home that is a great source of inspiration, skills transfer for all our members, as well as so much fun in terms of getting together with some great people!
In May I was the North Carolina Delegate for The Daughters Of The British Empire, in Long Beach, California. It was soooo much fun!
In August, I joined a "Business Networking International" group close by in Cary, North Carolina. What a great group of people!
In September, a friend took me to a "Cary Leads Group" which is another group whose purpose is to help small businesses with business referrals.
I have several great clients- in fact, my schedule is quite full. I love what I'm doing!
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Making progress...
I know this is not about crafting, per se-- but it's what's been going on in my life. I figure I have to get through the thinking process of this mess if I'm going to be able to do any crafting at all. So here goes: (if you don't have this problem, just come back to read what's happening next time -- I promise it won't be about cleaning house! :-)).
Joel, my husband of 35+ years, has been working in Dallas TX (we live in Raleigh, NC so we have been about 20 hours apart for all but about 6 weeks since July!). This happened in July of 2004, because the money from our savings just "ran out" after Joel had been out of work for almost a year, (give or take a few small contracts that he had -- he teaches Java programming).
It's been rough. He's lonely-- I'm lonely. He's bored, and I'm anything BUT bored-- in fact, lately, I rarely get to do any where near as much crafting or working on my business as I'd like to.
Well! Yesterday (Saturday) Joel came home for a week- just in time for Valentine's Day, mind you :-D! In preparation for his coming home, I got the house cleaned for the first time since he left at the beginning of January. It feels sooo nice to be able to find things again-- I'm not totally sure how it got so out of hand, but I definitely hope to keep it from ever becoming like that again.
Tomorrow, I am going to tidy up the house from the weekend's activities to try to keep it nice and not have to dig out again like I did this last few weeks. (One big problem for me was that I put all the Christmas stuff into my son's old room, and kept telling myself I should go through it and get rid of the stuff that is just taking up space. Finally, I just put it all in the closet, and then somehow, I could think so much easier! Now why didn't I think of that earlier???? Amazing how it just kept nagging at my mind to get it out of the way, and when I finally did, I was free to think of what else needed to be done.
Anyway, after I do the tidying, I am going to work on my jewelry. I will post what I get done. Wish me luck ;-)
Joel, my husband of 35+ years, has been working in Dallas TX (we live in Raleigh, NC so we have been about 20 hours apart for all but about 6 weeks since July!). This happened in July of 2004, because the money from our savings just "ran out" after Joel had been out of work for almost a year, (give or take a few small contracts that he had -- he teaches Java programming).
It's been rough. He's lonely-- I'm lonely. He's bored, and I'm anything BUT bored-- in fact, lately, I rarely get to do any where near as much crafting or working on my business as I'd like to.
Well! Yesterday (Saturday) Joel came home for a week- just in time for Valentine's Day, mind you :-D! In preparation for his coming home, I got the house cleaned for the first time since he left at the beginning of January. It feels sooo nice to be able to find things again-- I'm not totally sure how it got so out of hand, but I definitely hope to keep it from ever becoming like that again.
Tomorrow, I am going to tidy up the house from the weekend's activities to try to keep it nice and not have to dig out again like I did this last few weeks. (One big problem for me was that I put all the Christmas stuff into my son's old room, and kept telling myself I should go through it and get rid of the stuff that is just taking up space. Finally, I just put it all in the closet, and then somehow, I could think so much easier! Now why didn't I think of that earlier???? Amazing how it just kept nagging at my mind to get it out of the way, and when I finally did, I was free to think of what else needed to be done.
Anyway, after I do the tidying, I am going to work on my jewelry. I will post what I get done. Wish me luck ;-)
Thursday, February 03, 2005
This was one of THOSE days...
Today was just "not my day". I was supposed to go help serve a meal at a soup kitchen, and I voluteeered to bring dessert. I planned to make a recipe called "Chocolate Brownie Mousse Trifle". -- It's sooo, soo good. However, my oven had other plans, it seems, because something is wrong with the thermostat, I think.
I say this because I baked the first of the two brownie batches that go into it, and set it on top of the stove to cool, and made the next batch. I got distracted and forgot to notice the time so the last one over cooked by about 10 minutes. Not a problem-- that one was fine. So I went to crumble up the first one while the second was cooling. The first wasn't cooked. So I stuck it back into the oven. For some reason, it just WOULD not finish cooking. So I went on to the other components of the dish. I made the mousse, no problem. I went to make the whipped cream. I couldn't get it to whip. I eventually gave up and just took the individual parts and we had brownies with mousse on top, and the canned whipped cream on top of that. It wasn't bad, but it was no where near what I had thought it would be.
So, needless to say, none of the crafts or jewelry making I'd hoped to do were accomplished. Ah well, there's always tomorrow!
I say this because I baked the first of the two brownie batches that go into it, and set it on top of the stove to cool, and made the next batch. I got distracted and forgot to notice the time so the last one over cooked by about 10 minutes. Not a problem-- that one was fine. So I went to crumble up the first one while the second was cooling. The first wasn't cooked. So I stuck it back into the oven. For some reason, it just WOULD not finish cooking. So I went on to the other components of the dish. I made the mousse, no problem. I went to make the whipped cream. I couldn't get it to whip. I eventually gave up and just took the individual parts and we had brownies with mousse on top, and the canned whipped cream on top of that. It wasn't bad, but it was no where near what I had thought it would be.
So, needless to say, none of the crafts or jewelry making I'd hoped to do were accomplished. Ah well, there's always tomorrow!
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