I should find out tomorrow (Wednesday).... either way.... its not gonna be easy for me.... I don't know what to hope for.... I just want to be happy.....

my new love, sleep, may elude me tonight
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pretty funny.....

a bit dodgy..... but pretty funny x

interviewed for a new job today.... secretly... could be interesting. Would require a lot more creativity and a lot more interpersonal interaction... pays about 3 times more.... hoping x the bad omen is that I slept through alarm this morning and woke up at 15 mins to 9!!!!!!!!!!! I had about 5 mins to get ready before I had to leave the house and got the call in that 5 mins asking me to come for the interview at noon and to bring a CV.... she got the oh so impressive conservation CV i am afraid... whether my impressive skills at flattening canvas or repairing tears or my enviable 6 weeks at yes i will say it the V&A.... will win me another office job remains to be seen

Thanx Biz nose for the night out....x much needed

and now..... i will proceed to pass out

another weekend where it almost feels like it wasn't one.... and tomorrow will come too fast and i will have to get up early and go to the dreaded J.O.B.

So Saturday... I have been wanting to learn this new technique for jewelry design for so so long. I learned about it in England from a good friend who teaches it at one of the colleges in Gateshead but since i was traveling so much for work and other things I never got the chance to take one of her classes... and i really have wanted to learn this cos it is the perfect way to make tiny logo tags from silver that i can attach to my pieces.... a decorative detail but also a tag that says who made it and there are not many classes being offered in this technique so I had signed up for this class before Christmas and that is why i said i felt like i was waiting for Saturday for FOREVER!!! i have a more advanced course in it coming up that I am taking at the glass school next month and then i am really hoping to get into a week long course that gets you certified to teach the technique :) we will see... at any rate.... I love it and i knew I would!!!! and it will only add to the things that i can do and I have SOOOO MANY GOOD IDEAS FOR THIS MEDIUM!!!!!! Dad took the class with me and I think he really had a good time too.... you should have seen me... a total spaz... like the days of Burt Hall.... excited about every step of the process :) really really fun x

Dad working on his amazing pieces.... i should post a pic of what he created.... simply beautiful!!!!

Me completely oblivious to anything but what I am working on and wearing the adorable apron Suzie made for me.... you would not believe all the compliments i got on it :) all the girls at Harlequin were raving Sue... just loving it x

working on the piece I made for Mel :) look out for it Twit I actually made something for each of the nieces... so I will post them as soon as i have added all the little finishing touches so keep a weathered eye on the post horizon

Other news... Don't know if i've even told anyone that i have been asked to be the sunday school teacher for the 16 & 17 year olds.... I love teaching SS but the OLD TESTAMENT is a bit of a challenge for me... i describe it as trying to put together a picture out of jigsaw puzzle pieces but with lots of the pieces missing... I prefer the Book of Mormon, pure, clear, plain and precious x but I am learning. also.... 1st 2 lessons.... eternal marriage and then Chastity.... really? REALLY? sigh.... might as well dive in at the deep end

also spent some time at the Home Depot learning about laminate floors and how to install them and spent some time talking to Sean about good choices for acetone and IMS resistant laminates.... but that LOOK NICE :) x

"If you build it.... They will come" right???? right????? If not...... "Ill have a dog and a beer" LOL x

also....
as i am sure many of you have heard by now Rita Rich Westover passed away last night. I feel so much for our friends who have lost both of their parents at such young ages... good parents and good people. I will always remember Rita as someone who was my friend even when everyone else thought that Erik and I had gone of the deep end cos in high school we liked to wear black and listened to music like Nitzer Ebb, Front 242 and Nine Inch Nails.... she was always kind to me and interested in me and always a friend to me. i loved her. She was gentle and genuine. I am so sorry that she had to suffer so much at the end. I am sorry that her kids have lost their mother in this life. But I continue to believe that this life is not the end and that this mortal experience is but a moment in our real eternal destiny.

Thank you Rita for what you were and all you did.

& Thank you my family x I am so lucky to have you even though most of us are far apart x we are so so blessed to have each other and to love one another x and to have a promise of being together forever xx love you and miss you x

it was sooooooo good!

i am tired and will post some pics and tell about it later x

I feel like I have been waiting for March 27th for so so so so sooooooooo long..... oh, wait..... I HAVE!!!!!!!!! I will hopefully have lots to say about it and I will try and get some pics to post x and I would be willing to bet that many of you will be receiving the results of this day in the mail... from me x so be looking out x

I feel a little to excited about it to sleep
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and also.... I love Morgan James.... how many 4 year olds want to share their toys with their new siblings??? Maybe lots.... but they are not my nephew... and i am nothing if not a proud and completely in love with my nieces and nephews Auntie :):) But I will note here.... I noticed that it wasn't one of his trains that he let Marus Jude play with :) cheeky, cheeky monkey xxxxxxx I LOVE YOU xxxxxxx

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So happy to hear that baby Marus Jude and Mommy Mel are doing well and going home tomorrow and I am happy in the thought that some time soon i might be able to take some time off and come see you guys... and everyone else in Utah :) I hope, I hope x

So the other day I had a mini breakdown on the daily trip I make to the mailbox before leaving work. I usually take all the mail for the day and walk the few blocks to the closest post box... for fresh air and some stretching of the legs and time out of the office while still getting paid .... it has been a particularly stressful week with LOTS to do and my trainer on vacation so that all the stress and responsibility rests on me... and if i mess up... it is HUGE.... lawsuit HUGE. And people have not been very patient with me... and I am tired of working so hard for peanuts at a job i really dont like.... anyhooooo, So I was walking to the post box and thinking.... and suddenly I found myself with tears rolling down my face uncontrollably and I thought .... we only have this one life. One. And I am SURE that it is not meant for us to be completely miserable in this life... why should we spend a day being unhappy when we could be superbly happy? of course there are things that we cant control... other's choices, the economy, our health... but there are some things we can. And I went home that evening and made business cards for myself... just cheap and easy ones that will do for now until I can get properly established and on my feet.... just ones that I can give to all the galleries in town and to frame shops and to the local museum so that they have something to look at/give out if someone calls/comes in needing a paintings conservator.... they may not be fancy... but they represent some hope and some determination that I truly believe that there is happiness to be had... there HAS TO BE... I cant keep going like this.

so here is the first version of the card... i am still working on some other ideas.... I crossed out contact details... you never know who randomly comes and visits the site .... and I prefer not having those things readily available to crazies x

and also.... WATCH THIS SPACE...... XXXXX

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HERE IS THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE MOST PRETTIEST FAMILY :):)

Photo courtesy of Uncle Bug... who has gotten to see and hold said baby!!!

MARUS JUDE GREENWOOD
MARCH 24, 2010
YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY
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I CANT WAIT TO MEET YOU
I ALREADY LOOOOOOVE YOU

well done Mel and Mo, well done x

ok..... we got the call..... good luck Mel :):) you will do greeeeaaaat! X

Good Luck Baby M!!! cant wait to meet you :):)

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How exciting to have another family member coming into the world today!!!!
I hope you will keep us all posted throughout the day :) and send pics.... of the baby when it is all born and clean and cute and stuff xxxxxx

X good luck Mel X
I will be thinking of you all day
LOVE YOU

'Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!'
-William Wordsworth
an excerpt from
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

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