finally

did a little more scrapping.

I made a mini-accordion scrapbook for my cousins Jeneanne and Russ. They're the ones whose place we stayed at when we were visiting the family in Oregon. They spent a lot of time with us, which we really enjoyed. So this is a little something that I hope they enjoy...

been a while

I'm slacking on this blog thing now... I've been way too wrapped up in Facebook. And btw, no, I have NOT gotten involved in the total time-wasters, such as the farm, apartment decorating, "gambling," etc. But it is just so cool chatting with friends, some that I haven't seen since High School! And I am not excluding my current friends - always nice to chat with them too. ;-)

I've also been working hard on downloading tunes and making playlists for my ipod. LOVE that thing! Greg got me a 120 gig hard drive ipod for Christmas last year, and I'm trying super hard to fill it up, but that'll be the day. Right now my music is up to 18 gig.

I'm also trying to figure out which photos to enlarge and frame for display in the house. I love so many of my pics, more for sentimental reasons than that they're really all that good. LOL I want a series of five for the stair wall, five for a different wall downstairs, and then four for the big family / rec room downstairs. If you want to help out, check out my album on Facebook, pick your faves and leave a comment!

fall colors

We led some of the "bike gang" on a color ride today. The day was cool, 50-55 degrees, and overcast, we had a little mist here and there. But it was still a great day. The folks in the club are fun, love seeing them. And we had quite a few join us who aren't "regulars" - and we hadn't seen them in a while. So that was very cool! Here are a few pics:

this last one is Holy Hill. because it was overcast, the pictures didn't turn out quite as beautiful as they could have... oh well!

almost forgot

for those of you who haven't seen the surprise gift I made for G, here's a link: gift

you should be able to click on the button "View photo book" which is below the picture. And then it should do a page by page slideshow. There's a spot marked Full Screen - if you click on that, well, doh, the picture gets bigger. If you want to thumb thru yourself, you can click on the pause button, then use the arrows or even just click and drag the pages back and forth. It's actually kinda cool.

what a week...

I gave up waiting for my company to find a client for me, and have started seeking out a job on my own. I really hate this stuff... resumes, cover letters... and I haven't even started interviewing yet! I have spent SO many hours redoing my resume over and over, and then my basic cover letter. And then of course I need to modify them at least a bit for each company I apply to. Once I got the basics done I was thinking it was going to get easier. bwahahahaha Most companies have you apply online, which means filling out their website's online form. Even when I can upload my resume, most of the time their system does funky stuff with the formatting, so I have to go through and fix all that. So THAT is actually way more time consuming that customizing the documents.

But one good thing has come of this job search.

I decided to finally join LinkedIn. That's a website that's more or less for networking. Then I decided I might as well join Facebook too. omg, unbelievable! I have been in contact with folks I haven't seen or talked to since HIGH SCHOOL! It is so rockin' cool!