Yep, you got that right, Hibernation. That’s what I want to do!
I don’t want to go out; I don’t want to go find a new job. I’m even having trouble focusing on stuff.
Lack of concentration totally and I have the attention span of a banana right now.
I’m actually amazed that I am writing this down.
I quit my job! Yep, not doing the bagel thing anymore, amazing. I need to find a new job. Yes I do.
I really don’t know what I want to do. My DH has given me guidelines as to what he would prefer I not do. OK, I can live by those. I really don’t want to work at McDonalds’ anyway. I also did the 7/11 thing years ago, and even though the system has changed, I really don’t want to go there either.
Now what do I want to do? Good question.
Honestly, even though I don’t want to do retail, it’s going to have to be retail. That’s all there really is for someone like me now.
I have been out of the REAL job thing for too many years to go back to that. I would really like to find something that did not require me to be on my feet all day long, but that’s not going to happen either.
I would really LOVE to be a full time needlework designer, but we need a bit more money coming in than that does right now. Which is nothing; I have not had a published design in something like 3 years. The designs are there, but that’s about as far as they have gotten. Seriously thinking about just doing it for me now, problem is, I’m not stitching a whole lot right now either. I have a great snowflake design that I should complete because it will be really stunning when I get it done and framed. Maybe later!
I need to brush a dog and several of them need to have a bath, maybe later. I need to get my act together, quit feeling sorry for myself and go get a job. Wow unemployed for 3 days and I’m already feeling the stress and 2 of those days I would have been off anyway.
I should write Sony and volunteer to be a paid game player for them. I’m not very good, I’m female, and I’m old! Great combination work out all kinds of stuff for them before it goes public. If I can do it, then you know the whiz kids can do it right? I mean, honestly, I have no computer skills to speak of and I game. I’m awful at it too, so I should be the answer to the prayers they did not know they even had.
Ok, never mind. I guess I’ll go feed the dogs, take a shower, get dressed and go find a job. So much for hibernation.
If your here for the 2 freebies, they are at the bottom of the post entitled WE DID IT!
I’m looking out our front window this morning to a beautiful, clear day. The sun is shining and you can see that the air is crisp and clean. Ok maybe not! The sky is overcast, it’s cold outside and we have 2 inches of fresh powder on the ground. The dogs are having a great time outside playing in the white stuff, back to my front window now. The people across the street have had a visitor in the night. There are several brightly colored objects lying in the snow. The 2 granddaughters are bundled up like Eskimos with big bulky mittens on. They are barely able to carry their Easter Baskets around the yard. Grandma has to help them pick up all the objects that are lying about and place them in the basket. Oh! We just found one under that bush and there is another one up on the limb of this little tree. How cute is this? I guess The Bunny comes no matter what the weather.
May your Easter be filled with colorful memories, good company and the joy that comes with every new season.
HAPPY EASTER
Well I think we have gotten the problem solved and I can now post freebies on this web site. My DH has done all the necessary work this morning after of course my Grapher had cleaned up the charts and put the stitch diagrams in as well. Then there was my sister that figured out that she needed to send them to me just the right way! All in all it was a team effort and I have the best team anyone could want. So today we will actually post the Valentine’s Day chart and the Easter chart. So 2 for the price of one visit, I’m also learning how to do some of this stuff myself so that I can do it without bothering my husband too much.
Now the next bit of news is this. I have teamed up with Tonya, from Six Strand Sweets and Heather, from England and we are going to do a series of designs featuring Needle Nutz Designs, Six Strand Sweets and Heather’s Buttons. there will be more details as I actually get this whole thing worked out with my new team members.
You can also learn more from going to the SSS message board on Yahoo.
Now for the charts.
Feedback would be appreciated so that we can make these user friendly. They are in .pdf format .
You just have to love Colorado. It snows here! Big surprise. It has not been as bad as last year with a new blizzard every week, but so far this year it’s been sort of nice. We have had good warmish days and of course winter days.
I’m getting better at playing the game, the DH and I are actually able to raid together, he’s just helping level me up, but I am actually learning. I have made a few “toons” that I play by myself to help the learning curv and that has been fun as well. I can so see haw this can grab you and that’s all you want to do. I’m not getting a whole lot of other stuff done around the house like brushing Skye for the dog show in two weeks. I’ll work on that later today I hope as well as tomorrow.
My job has changed at the Einstein’s, I only bake two days a week now and the other three I do what’s called Prep. thats the chopping and cutting and mixing of all the stuff that they use on the line. I also get to do the dishes and mop the floor. Ok, thats not the real reason I’m doing prep! I will be made the kitchen manager here shortly. I need to know the entire back area to do this job. I have already had a few words with younger staff members about the mess they make in the back. They are not happy with me, but it’s really not fair for the baker to clean their area, then come in the next day and find it a mess. That really screws with your time table in the morning. I think I will have my work cut out for me when I actually start that job.
The stitching thing, well still not doing a while lot of that. I have designed a couple of things, that I want to post on here as freebies, but that is becoming harder than I had imagined. What i want to know is how all the other designers can do it, and I can’t! The grapher lady is supposed to get it cleaned up, I’m not sure of her entire process, but when her part is complete she ships it to the hubsand and he is supposed to place it on the site for me. The test run was not sucessful. She sent me an old chart that we will also be placing on here in case someone would like to download it as well, and my entire computer froze up. So we are back to square one.
More later
It’s Sunday afternoon. the hubby is taking a nap on the couch in the family room and I’m in the computer room trying to figure out how to plat “the game”. My DH is a game player, there is one online that he has set me up to play with him and I have to say it is a whole lot easier watching him play than actually having to do it yourself. I’m so frustrated that I could just scream and he’s a bit peeved at me as well, because I’m not paying attention to him. Well, I’m trying. I do not react as fast because there is a whole lot of stuff to remember. Gee whiz, the most complicated game I ever played was Solitaire. Well I did play unreal, but I was in God Mode the entire time so I could not get killed and I could fly and I basically did the easy version with a walk through right by my side AND that in most cases is considered cheating. But what the heck, I did managed to figure out some of the stuff, I had a good time playing it so I guess that’s what counts. This game is on-line for pete’s sake. It has other real people playing it and I have to be sharp to play this game. At some point I will get good enough to join his guild and there will then be other players counting on me to know what in the hell I am doing. Right now I’m so awful I feel like throwing in the towel. I’m a cross stitcher and designer. I bake bagels for a living. I’m not real experienced at this game thing. OK, enough bitching, I’m gonna go try it again