*little gasps of joy*
I just found this: classes for freelancers, mostly editing or copywriting. Intro to AMA style, Web Sites for Writers & Editors, Getting Started as an Editorial Freelancer...*squee!* Most of them are online, some aren't. Those last two I listed aren't, but that's alright, because they're in freaking DC. I just happen to have relatives in that area I might be able to bum a room from for a day or two. There's even a discount for taking all three May 14th DC classes (although that'd be daunting, starting at 9:30 in the morning and going until 9 at night, with only 3 and a half hours (total) of non-class time...).
:D :D :D
Sadly, some of the ones that make me go "WANT" have already passed or started (Introduction to Developmental and Structural Editing: Fiction, for example). But hell, that's alright, there's plenty more to come!
This has lit a fire under my butt. Methinks it's time to look for more such webpages and online classes and see what I can find...
In other joyous happenings, IT'S FREAKING SPRING! Yesterday was the official First Day of Spring. :) Not that it felt it, being in the mid-40s all day, but hell, I'll take that over ice and snow and temps in the teens anytime! I'm planning on taking a walk after work, either at the Stafford cemetery that Dad and I visited on Tuesday, or at the Ruby-Fenton park. I just want to do SOMEthing to celebrate the new season that I have been eagerly awaiting!
I may have mentioned in the past that I have mildly troublesome hair--it's very very thick, usually long, and I'm inept at just about any styling. The best I can do is a ponytail; attempts at braiding and hair-stick-ing have either made my arms hurt, or failed due to thickness and inexperience. Hair clips don't work due, again, to thickness and weight. It's currently just past my shoulders (despite Ryan's best efforts to convince me to cut it to chin-length or just-past).
Everything about me, currently, is dry. My skin (especially on my hands, legs, lips, and cheeks), and my hair. I blame the last bites of winter, the amount of dry, dusty air at Ryan's house, and Ryan's shower (they're water is very hard). I've started drinking large amounts of water (around 100 oz in the past three days, counting this morning), and using moisturizer and chapstick and using less-to-no astringent, in order to help my poor skin. My hair, though, is very unhappy. Or at least it WAS.
Depending on where you are, you might have seen the commercials for Dove Intense Therapy Conditioner. They take two bundles of hair, dip them in paint, and paint with them. The unhappy hair makes a very unhappy line, while the happy hair makes a smooth, thick, unbroken line of paint. I watch too much TV, and this commercial finally got to me. I went and got some Dove Daily Moisture Intense Therapy Conditioner.
This shit is good. I mean, GOOD. One use, and my hair was shiny, soft, smooth...it's happy hair, it really is. If you're hair is dry and unhappy, GET THIS SHIT. RIGHT NOW. Not only do I have healthier hair, but I just feel that much prettier for it. Amazing what one little change can do for you.
You'd think I'd feel silly, getting all happy over hair and conditioner, especially knowing me. But it just makes me feel better. :)
There was a fear that I would not be able to go firew alking with David and Dorita, due to schedule overlaps. However, my boss is lovely, and not only gave me the day of off, but the day before, too. I had forgotten to ask for that Friday off, and was planning to drive to NY immediately after work that night. So glad I don't have to do that!
My current plan to leave after work on Thursday, April 2--around 5 or 6. That means I'd arrive at their house around 10, and spend that night and the next day just enjoying D+D's company (and avoiding getting completely muddy in their currently-in-pieces house). Saturday, drive down to Pennsylvania for the fire walking! I'm assuming that we're driving back up that night, could be the morning after, don't know. Either way, I'd leave for home early Sunday afternoon, arriving home with enough time to get some sleep before work, which is Monday morning at 11. Might get tight at the end there, but I don't care. I'll drive straight from NY to Curves if I have to, FIRE WALKING!! XD
Honestly, I am scared about it, but in an excited way. And really, it's even better that I'm scared. The people doing it make it VERY clear that, once you get up to the moment of truth, you DO NOT have to do it, there is NO pressure. I'm still 95% sure I'll be up for it and ready and just do it, scared or not.
David keeps saying, when's the last time I did something impossible? Answer is NEVER (no, being raised by him doesn't count, no matter how many times he says it :P). I've never done anything scarier than getting my ears pierced, getting my first job, learning to drive...and those don't count. Doing this, and getting a tattoo, will be the scariest things ever, but I am determined to go through both without a single regret, no looking back.
Hee, I can't wait, I keep getting little shivers thinking about it. :D
So, that's the big things in my life. Sad, I know :P
The little things:
[o] Checked out New Alliance Bank, been thinking of switching to them from People's since they have more convenient locations. It ain't happening. You can't get the free savings without (a) $500 (and they charge you a fee every month if you're under), or (b) an Express Checking with Interest, which needs a $1,000 minimum. I have less than $400 in my combined accounts right now, so no can do.
[o] Found more people to follow on twitter: Ellen Degeneres ( TheEllenShow)(LOVE HER), Sara Bareilles ( SaraBareilles), Brent Spiner BrentSpinter)(freaking DATA, people!!), Darth Vader ( Darth Vader), and, of course, our own Malver! I'd follow Obama if he made regular updates again :(
[o] Still cross-stitching and designing Celtic knots to my heart's content. Actually went to bed later than I wanted last night thanks to one design that wouldn't leave me alone. There's a bigger project in the works with Ryan, we'll see how that goes!
Alright, back to what I was doing--looking for online classes and making a list of things Dad could do to make money with mad skillz :) Oh, yeah, and work. ;)
To be perfectly honest, this is the happiest I've been in the past few months. And it's almost entirely from the sun being out and the air being warm and the birds singing. I love spring. :)