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Today is a blog catchup day for me, as I've been busy getting things handled for my new job, like consenting to drug and background checks, and going in to the lab to fill a little cup. I think I'm the only person I know that can burn herself at a drug-test. The lab tech warned me gently 'Careful, the water gets really hot.' So I'm thinking "How hot can she mean? I'm used to hot water .. I felt stuff!" So I turn the water on, soap up my hands, and when I went to rinse them off ... Yeouch! I scalded my right ring finger . Their water indeed gets very hot .. like, boiling temp right out the faucet!
Other than that though, things are going well. Now I just have to wait, probably until Tuesday/Wednesday, for the results of the background check and drug test so I can get my training started. By this time next week I expect I'll be busy busy reading the training materials and reaquainting myself with a Telzon gun.
We're still following Weight Watchers religiously .. except for me forgetting to eat all my fruits and vegetables half this week, and being so tired I didn't eat all my points one day. The one-month mark comes up tomorrow, so I've got my extremities crossed for a good weigh-in. Things are fitting much better, so that's a good sign.
On the knitting front, I'm still working on finishing a quick boa-scarf for my other niece, and a Booga for Brandon. His is in this yummy blue/black tweed-ish merino I have, something Larissa gifted to me when she taught me to knit. Once that's done I hope to make another Booga in the Pink/Grey for Larissa. She has gotten back into knitting, though that girl has ventured into garments, whereas I stick with accessories for now. That's just being smart though, I think. I mean, I'm losing weight .. I don't want to make myself anything that won't fit me a year from now!
Like probably most of you all, I'm enduring ungodly heat hereabouts. This is the hottest summer I can remember .. and I've been in the South for 9 summers now. I've been hearing bits and bobs of things trying to explain the heat. Some have said the last big 'quake was preceded by a massive heat wave. Lots of people call it 'Global Warming' .. though without seeming to really know what they're talking about. I'm of the opinion that it's a natural cycle, and that the world isn't going to come to an end just because it's gotten hotter. We may have helped it along, sure, but we didn't cause this cycle. That's just pure arrogance.
Another project for today is to reorganize my pantry. Which will involve much growling and grumbling and stumbling over piles of food strewn everywhere no doubt, but it has got to be done. There's not a bit of rhyme nor reason to the way it is now, and I need a better way to find stuff so I can actually use the stuff in the pantry rather than just guessing, and buying -more- of everything. Wish me luck!
Other than that though, things are going well. Now I just have to wait, probably until Tuesday/Wednesday, for the results of the background check and drug test so I can get my training started. By this time next week I expect I'll be busy busy reading the training materials and reaquainting myself with a Telzon gun.
We're still following Weight Watchers religiously .. except for me forgetting to eat all my fruits and vegetables half this week, and being so tired I didn't eat all my points one day. The one-month mark comes up tomorrow, so I've got my extremities crossed for a good weigh-in. Things are fitting much better, so that's a good sign.
On the knitting front, I'm still working on finishing a quick boa-scarf for my other niece, and a Booga for Brandon. His is in this yummy blue/black tweed-ish merino I have, something Larissa gifted to me when she taught me to knit. Once that's done I hope to make another Booga in the Pink/Grey for Larissa. She has gotten back into knitting, though that girl has ventured into garments, whereas I stick with accessories for now. That's just being smart though, I think. I mean, I'm losing weight .. I don't want to make myself anything that won't fit me a year from now!
Like probably most of you all, I'm enduring ungodly heat hereabouts. This is the hottest summer I can remember .. and I've been in the South for 9 summers now. I've been hearing bits and bobs of things trying to explain the heat. Some have said the last big 'quake was preceded by a massive heat wave. Lots of people call it 'Global Warming' .. though without seeming to really know what they're talking about. I'm of the opinion that it's a natural cycle, and that the world isn't going to come to an end just because it's gotten hotter. We may have helped it along, sure, but we didn't cause this cycle. That's just pure arrogance.
Another project for today is to reorganize my pantry. Which will involve much growling and grumbling and stumbling over piles of food strewn everywhere no doubt, but it has got to be done. There's not a bit of rhyme nor reason to the way it is now, and I need a better way to find stuff so I can actually use the stuff in the pantry rather than just guessing, and buying -more- of everything. Wish me luck!