The View from Here

I've been absent for a while. I did end up buying a new computer. A beautiful, fast, light, HP notebook. However, I bought it prior to windows 7 and now am waiting for my upgrade to come in the mail. In the meantime, for fear of loosing anything, I'm not putting things on it (like photos). Hopefully, we'll get a chance to work on that this weekend.

I'm looking forward to a weekend home. Dad is up north for opening day of gun season and Trent is busy being a teenager, so it's some quailty time with mom.

Here in the city,the Thursday Night Knitting group has been my haven these past few months. They've encouraged me to finish several projects, including but not limited to lots of Christmas gifts and my first sweater! Our amazing LYS owner helped me block it last night and I'm going to pick it up after work tonight and go pick out some buttons tomorrow!! Maybe I can convince mom to help me with a photo shoot.

Life is a good level of busy. Gearing up for the holidays and my favorite time of year. I'm off to the land of dial-up. Have a great weekend everyone!

Tech Support

Yes, I've been MIA for a long time. Not of my own choosing I will note.

I'm currently blogging from my work computer (Hi IT guys that are reading this via spy-on-your-staff technology!). The Dell is on what appears to be it's last leg. For as many problems as I've had with it, I've decided to take this as my sign to buy a new computer (although a small part wonders if it's worth taking to the repair guy to squeeze some more time out of it....). I'm shopping for computers, and will be out of IT based touch for a bit.

Have a great week everyone!

The Power of a Mother

On Sunday at church I saw a mother perform tasks I would have thought impossible, until I saw it happen and in that moment I got a glimpse of the power of a mother when her child is in distress.

For the gospel reading, our minister, a processional cross bearer and two acolytes with "torches" (processional candles in glass globes), come halfway down the isle. During the reading one of the acolytes (who was in my Sunday school class last year) passed out and toppled sideways into a pew and fell head first onto a kneeler.

Before the congrigation could intake a collective breath his mother was there. At the beginning of the reading she was six rows in front of him on the other side of the church. Somehow, she lept pews and was underneath him almost before he hit the floor. At that moment, I knew I would never doubt that woman anything ever again.

The young acolyte came around nicely by that evening, but the mother will forever hold an elevated position in my mind.

Things I've Learned at Work

• The line painter who does The parking lot needs nearly 4 feet on either side to paint a 4inch line.
  
• When people are both angry and at a loss for words, more often than not they will call you incompetent.
  
• When something reads "Starting at 3pm" evidently most people read that as "If you show up at a quarter past there will still be stuff left." When I wrote that memo, by the way, I did mean starting at 3, that's why I wrote it!
• When your boss says she's taking Thursday and Friday off, what she really means is that she'll be coming in late on Wednesday and leaving before lunch, and you won't see her again for a week.
  
• It freaks your assistant out when you ask to sit in his office and cry/simmer with anger because there are too many people watching if you do it at your desk. However, he will comply and usually provide kleenex and chocolate they took from your desk earlier that week.
  
• According to corporate your assistant needs an office, but you don't (if you can figure that one out... let me know).
  
• The less you like a co-worker, the greater the chances you will be in charge of organizing their birthday party (NEVER EVER forget someone's birthday... that is, evidently, part of your job)
• Everyone (except your boss, obviously) really needs a vacation, and after a while you all get used to yelling at each other for no reason all the time, and it even gets a little bit funny.
  

Evidently

The Real Red is turning out to be a girl of all work and no play. I started my new job the first week in July and have yet to work less than 45 hours a week, the next two weeks it will be closer to 70 hours a week. Things will calm down a bit after the 28th and will be beautifully quiet sliding into the holiday season (after mid-October). Until then, I'm knitting all garter stitch patterns, reading relaxing, fun books and drinking lots of tea to get through the busy period

Until I get some more free time, I leave you with a parting glance of July's vacation.



















A beautiful Saturday night sunset over Lake Michigan at the public beach in Frankfort.