Monday: Monday was what has become a typical day for me: Get up, do my morning routine while making my first batch of soap, the take a lunch break, make two more batches of soap and then clean up, make dinner, do homework, and go to bed.
Tuesday was pretty routine as well but that evening C and I went out to dinner with B & M. We went to this really great seafood restaurant- the Marblehead Grille. Just great, great food. They put us back in a corner , it was like we had our own private little table, it was great. Both couples have been looking for houses so we have been comparing notes about what we have seen. Some they have not gone into, others we have not, but it seems many, many of them we have both driven by or at least looked at online. I always love spending time with them. C & M get along so well and so do B & I. We can always find things to talk about and we are all so laid back it's not like we have to try and entertain one another. I'm not tired of them by the end of the night.
Wednesday: Another typical day. I finished one more fragrance, leaving 16 left to do before I am through. I didn't do much on Wednesday, I just wasn't feeling well and just crawling into bed and putting the blanket over my head was calling me - so I listened and slept. I felt much better afterwards, and then spent the evening stressing about homework…
Thursday: UWBW meeting. D has decided to throw in the towel. She has decided that making her hobby a business takes all the fun out of her hobby. I can see that, I go through times where I feel that as well. I just will miss her at meetings; she always has such great input and ideas. I feel as though I have just gotten to know her and she will be gone. Since I met her through B I don't know if we have enough of a friendship for it to take on a life of its own. After that I ran my errands: groceries, post office, bank…
Friday: All this darn homework. Since I am going away for the evening on Monday I knew I needed to get a bunch of work done so I can go with a lot less stress.
Saturday: More homework. This Perl is just so time consuming. Its hours and hours and hours just to figure out one assignment. I have to be putting in 30+ hours a week trying desperately to figure this stuff out.
Sunday: We looked at more houses. We really have started to whittle down the areas we are interested in. We can tell more easily what is too far to go from where we are now. We know we don't want any more north, we know that the other side of 476 is too far as well. C needs to be able to get to a highway pretty quick, I need a workshop, we want a garage (preferably 2 car) and enough backyard for me to plant a few vegetables. We want at least as many square feet as we have now, preferably more. And we don't want bland- no 1970's developments, two story (or bi-level) plain square houses for us. We'll know what we want when we see it. It is going to hit us over the head like a sledgehammer. And it may take us a year to find it…
1.30.2006
1.23.2006
January 16-22 Week 3
Monday: C got the day off from work and I worked feverishly all day. Besides making soap and the usual chores, I had to work on homework that I didn't understand and couldn't get to work. This Perl programming language is just Greek to me. It might as well be hieroglyphics. It will be a miracle if I can get through this class.
Tuesday: More soap (what a surprise) but J ended up coming over in the evening. She needed me to sign some paperwork and I needed some help in the shop so it worked well for both of us. She made it around dinnertime.
Wednesday: I got my orders ready. J made some bath fizzys. I also made some more soap. We got the paperwork all finished and grabbed some lunch. In the afternoon she decided to stay another night. That way she could make some more fizzys and get some more homework done.
Thursday: still in the shop. This week I got a total of three more fragrances made, for a total of 17 left to do. I have to start keeping better track of what I get done each day because when I look back on it I can't figure out where the time goes. I know I am crazy busy during the week, I just can't remember what exactly I spent so much time on.
Friday: Errand day. After the groceries and the post office I came home and started experimenting. I played with making a facial mud mask, a salt scrub, and a herbal scrub. I'm not thrilled with the mud mask. It is too gritty for me and seems to spread unevenly. It also is too dark. The mud I used is almost black and it is really scary to put on your face- I was so afraid that it may stain my skin (but it didn't). It was nothing like the clay masks I am used to using. I haven't tried the others yet. I also got meat ready to make jerky. C loves jerky and last time we were at Cabella's we picked up some jerky spices, so I cut up the meat and got it curing. I wanted to pickle some carrots too, but I forgot to get an ingredient, so that is next week.
Saturday: Homework day.. C helped me figure out one problem from last week that I couldn't get to work and I completed 1 of 4 for this week. I am so glad that we are in week three already- only three more to suffer through.
Sunday: House hunting. We are looking for a house. We know this will be a long process. We looked at 7. One we couldn't go into because the open house had just closed. Of the other 6 we went into two. One had the most awesome basement for me to work in that I have ever seen, but the hose itself was just too, too small. And the other we saw was just a jigsaw puzzle of additions to an original small house. I mean this thing had walls that moved so you could get furniture into rooms. It was weird.
Tuesday: More soap (what a surprise) but J ended up coming over in the evening. She needed me to sign some paperwork and I needed some help in the shop so it worked well for both of us. She made it around dinnertime.
Wednesday: I got my orders ready. J made some bath fizzys. I also made some more soap. We got the paperwork all finished and grabbed some lunch. In the afternoon she decided to stay another night. That way she could make some more fizzys and get some more homework done.
Thursday: still in the shop. This week I got a total of three more fragrances made, for a total of 17 left to do. I have to start keeping better track of what I get done each day because when I look back on it I can't figure out where the time goes. I know I am crazy busy during the week, I just can't remember what exactly I spent so much time on.
Friday: Errand day. After the groceries and the post office I came home and started experimenting. I played with making a facial mud mask, a salt scrub, and a herbal scrub. I'm not thrilled with the mud mask. It is too gritty for me and seems to spread unevenly. It also is too dark. The mud I used is almost black and it is really scary to put on your face- I was so afraid that it may stain my skin (but it didn't). It was nothing like the clay masks I am used to using. I haven't tried the others yet. I also got meat ready to make jerky. C loves jerky and last time we were at Cabella's we picked up some jerky spices, so I cut up the meat and got it curing. I wanted to pickle some carrots too, but I forgot to get an ingredient, so that is next week.
Saturday: Homework day.. C helped me figure out one problem from last week that I couldn't get to work and I completed 1 of 4 for this week. I am so glad that we are in week three already- only three more to suffer through.
Sunday: House hunting. We are looking for a house. We know this will be a long process. We looked at 7. One we couldn't go into because the open house had just closed. Of the other 6 we went into two. One had the most awesome basement for me to work in that I have ever seen, but the hose itself was just too, too small. And the other we saw was just a jigsaw puzzle of additions to an original small house. I mean this thing had walls that moved so you could get furniture into rooms. It was weird.
1.15.2006
January 9-15, 2006 - Week 2
Monday: I had gotten some orders and some request for samples over the weekend so Monday was spent getting everything ready and out the door. I also made Lavender soap and worked on homework, happily actually understanding my Perl assignments and getting them right.
Tuesday: Lunch with the girls at the UWBW. The topic for the day was organization. We each brought in a list of a few things that we were good at organizing, and a few we need help on. I realized that after the hard work that I've put in the first few weeks of this year, I'm not too behind after all. I have built some good foundations that I think will carry me though the year as long as I follow routines as best as I can and fall back on them when I feel lost.
Wednesday: More lavender soap. This makes me up to quota on Lavender. Total 3 down, 20 to go. I also started on some Wisdom as well. I also got some supply orders placed which is a great thing.
Thursday: I made basic soap (4 big batches) after I got home from running errands. Groceries, Bank, Post Office, Drycleaner, and Kitty Food. I also packed for the trip, worked on more homework, and cleaned up around the house a little.
Friday: It was the autopsy meeting at Main Line Art Center for the Fall Craft Show. Once again we beat our sales from last show. It just keeps growing and growing, and that is even with a few days of snow and terrible weather to boot. After that I picked C up at work and we left for West Virginia. It was about a 3 ½ hour ride down and once we got there we explored the town. It started to rain so we never really got out of the car though. We did find some awesome hot dogs for dinner. They had mustard, mild chili, and coleslaw on them, yum…gives our local place a run for their money for sure!
Saturday: We got up early and went to the jury session (that's another post) and then we drive to Harper's Ferry and walked around. I had never been there before, it is a very interesting place. We found a cute place for lunch and by the end, the rain and the cold came in so we just left and drive around for a while before heading back to the hotel. Later we grabbed some dinner at the buffet place across the street from the hotel and went to try and find a movie to watch, but everything started about two hours from when we were looking, so we ended up watching TV for the rest of the night.
Sunday: Rise and shine and a very windy drive home. We stopped at Cabella's for lunch and to walk around for a bit and then headed home. Now I'm just trying to catch up and get ahead. Making the grocery list, paying bills, and blogging my little fingers off. Back to work tomorrow…
Tuesday: Lunch with the girls at the UWBW. The topic for the day was organization. We each brought in a list of a few things that we were good at organizing, and a few we need help on. I realized that after the hard work that I've put in the first few weeks of this year, I'm not too behind after all. I have built some good foundations that I think will carry me though the year as long as I follow routines as best as I can and fall back on them when I feel lost.
Wednesday: More lavender soap. This makes me up to quota on Lavender. Total 3 down, 20 to go. I also started on some Wisdom as well. I also got some supply orders placed which is a great thing.
Thursday: I made basic soap (4 big batches) after I got home from running errands. Groceries, Bank, Post Office, Drycleaner, and Kitty Food. I also packed for the trip, worked on more homework, and cleaned up around the house a little.
Friday: It was the autopsy meeting at Main Line Art Center for the Fall Craft Show. Once again we beat our sales from last show. It just keeps growing and growing, and that is even with a few days of snow and terrible weather to boot. After that I picked C up at work and we left for West Virginia. It was about a 3 ½ hour ride down and once we got there we explored the town. It started to rain so we never really got out of the car though. We did find some awesome hot dogs for dinner. They had mustard, mild chili, and coleslaw on them, yum…gives our local place a run for their money for sure!
Saturday: We got up early and went to the jury session (that's another post) and then we drive to Harper's Ferry and walked around. I had never been there before, it is a very interesting place. We found a cute place for lunch and by the end, the rain and the cold came in so we just left and drive around for a while before heading back to the hotel. Later we grabbed some dinner at the buffet place across the street from the hotel and went to try and find a movie to watch, but everything started about two hours from when we were looking, so we ended up watching TV for the rest of the night.
Sunday: Rise and shine and a very windy drive home. We stopped at Cabella's for lunch and to walk around for a bit and then headed home. Now I'm just trying to catch up and get ahead. Making the grocery list, paying bills, and blogging my little fingers off. Back to work tomorrow…
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