four months

[tielan]

It's been a couple of weeks since I posted anything to do with my life. Or read my f-list. Sorry if you've been through a crisis in the last couple of weeks and I haven't been paying attention. Let me know if I can help!

job

So, that's four months I've been out of a job. They're not looking particularly plentiful on the ground right now, and it's a little depressing.

The positive side of things is that my stepdad has a business that he's looking to expand, and I think it's something that I can work with - the time is flexible and would allow for both my writing and quilting endeavours.

The problem would be scheduling my hours for work and play and other stuff. I'm not very good at that.

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It's been a bad year for pets - first my kitten, then the stepbro's Russian Blue. Mine died of old age, hers was apparently a genetic heart weakness due to inbreeding.

I'm seriously thinking about getting another one. Two, actually - one for B1 and one for me. *goes and looks at animal shelters*

There's this adorable duo called 'Fortune' and 'Cookie' and they so cute! But I'd have to go into Newtown - and drag the sistren along to look, too... Major effort, that.

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Hockey is going well. Had the Veterans' team dinner on Monday night and had a very good night.

The Vets' comp is over, but we've still got the Open semifinals going.

I've enjoyed playing for this team this year - I knew I would, even when I was disappointed at being graded down to it. Golds are lower-key than the top team (Reds), and we're not as solidly skilled as the Reds (who have soundly defeated all the other teams in their comp and are sitting at the top of their ladder) but we're still doing pretty well in our comp - we came 2nd overall in the ladder, with about 4 draws and a couple of losses.

But it's a good team. Solid and friendly, and I don't feel bad if I don't score goals. Goal scoring in Reds was very much a 'me, myself, and I' proposition - when you had the ball, you went for the straight hit to goals. Golds work more as a team - our biggest win - 7-0 - was mostly because we were passing the ball like maniacs, back and forth in the goal circle, around the goalie and the backs, and then clear into the goal. Those 7 goals? Were scored by 7 different people. That's teamwork.

So, yes, hockey has worked out this year - and been a good exercise on all fronts for me.

Played the semi-finals on Sunday against a team in our comp that we (privately) call the Bitchy Team. Lost. We play the finals this weekend against junior team of Bitchy Team (U-18s)...and if we win, we get to take on Bitchy Team again.

*hopes*

I should probably be doing some training before then, right? I was going to go to a Body Step class this morning...and didn't. It should be finishing right about now...

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I think I might do some quilting, and then take the laptop in to the cafe and work on my stepdad's site. Getting out of the house is probably a good idea...


I'll start reading my f-list again this week.

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Nothing terribly exciting happening to me. I pray that a good job will come your way. And I do like watching your quilting posts.

[tielan]

'Nothing terribly exciting' is better than 'nearly died a couple of times'. Much better!

And thanks for the prayer.

[thothmes]

Well, we had Irene, downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm. I posted to say that we were fine, but it was a little more exciting than anyone had planned, what with the flash flooding and all, and that there were some people around here who lost homes. CNN had been showing some pretty exciting footage of covered bridges being washed away in the roiling flood waters, and I'd gotten a few PMs of concern, so I wanted to state for the record,that yes I was fine.

13 towns in this state ended up being "islands" for a few days, with the roads and bridges so washed out as to be completely impassible. Some of them had to have emergency supplies lifted in by helicopter. All the towns have now been reached, but some of them require ATV's or All Wheel Drive vehicles, and are still impassible to conventional cars and trucks.

In the end, in this small state, about 700 homes were destroyed, countless roads and bridges, many businesses, and familiar landmarks from my childhood have been irrevocably changed.

Usually I don't have such exciting weeks!

[tielan]

Well, its good that you and yours are okay, although very terrible about the people who got washed out.

We had the same thing earlier this year in Queensland - huge storms that battered the state and turned some of the outlying towns into virtual islands.

Stay safe!