quick update

I had been living in Seattle since 2001 and it was getting old, then I got laid off last February, right before a 10 day vacation to Kauai, and I was able to go to the Obama rally the next day, since I had no job!

So I kept looking for a job and interviewing and coming up empty. I painted. I went to an astrologist and a psychic. I began doing yoga 5 times a week. I painted. I collected unemployment. I sold 2 paintings on etsy. I went to Maui in May because I had a free ticket and I could.

I became the president of the corporation for Alpha Xi Delta, when I was in Maui the House director disapeared and I had to move in for the last 2 weeks of school. I spent my entire summer hiring new staff, buying furniture for the lounges, painting the dinning room and bonding with the future membership chair. Good thing I didn't have a job, I was so busy.

Then Summer was almost over and my unemloyment was running out and my brother in law offered me a job working in the winery for the season. My sister said I could live with them rent free. So I packed everything I wanted to keep in 3 door to door storage units. I sold my vintage clothes. I made many trips to Good Will. I gave away all my plants.I packed my car and had my brakes replaced on the day I left Seattle for $800 (they were scary) My dad said I was robbed.

Now it's almost 4 months later and I have no job, the unemployment web site isn't working, the phone line is busy, it's 14 degrees out side and my car is covered in 3 ft. of snow. I'm not sure if I want to live here.

I interviewed with a big Winery winery last Friday and they would be able to offer me a full time job by March but only 10 or 15 hours until then.
So my options are to stay and take this job and find another part time job
OR go to Costa Rica and get my 200 hour yoga teaching cert, I'd be back in mid Feb and could work then for Waterbrook, but I will have spent all my money.
OR move to Portland and look for a job there (because I'm tired of Seattle)

I miss my neice Claire. She 3 and a crazy wild girl, she has been climbing trees since before she 2. In Seattle I saw her a least once a week. She makes me want kids. Here she is picking out a Christmas tree. That's exactly how I feel about Christmas!

Beauy school in the future?

So I had dark hair for a few years. This is me today------------>

This was me in February below bottom. The one on the below middle was in May. I had been growing my hair out and a month ago I went to a friend's hairdresser (a little gay man, the type of hair dresser I like least) and he cut it right back to where it was last February. I hated him till about yesterday. Actually I till hate my hair cut but I've gotten used to it. I've been keeping my own color since I'm unemployed (still) and have no extra $100 to have it professionaly done. I think it looks pretty good. Maybe I just need to go to Beauty School and become a colorist.

Alpha Xi Delta

Some how back in April I got conned into becoming the alumni president of the non profit corporation that runs the housing for my sorority at the University of Washington. It's been fun. The house director whent missing when I was in Maui, it turned out to be job and apartment abandonment. I ended up making her old apartment my art studio the last week of school (finals) so I could be the representative who checked them out. I tossed almost 4 file drawers of old files from past house directors and had to organize and toss all the things the woman who had just quit had left behind, basicly her entire sad life. But I painted too. It was kinda fun.

The next week one of the girls and myself went and ordered 70 new dining room chairs from Design Within Reach. Excellent. Then we found a good deal on a dinning table, ordered those too. Nine of them. That was the easy part.
Since then I have fired the cook, need to find a new one. Waiting on a background check. Hired an awesome almni Grad Student to be the new House Mom. Run an inventory of all the items that belong to the house, furniture, dishes, glasses, silverware...thanks Molly, Sara, Katherine, and Alicia for helping!!

Had a yard sale, during which I was sick and on drugs as I had blown out my ear drum (worst pain ever) 2 days before. Still haven't received the emergency room bill. Thank God for Vicodin.



The dining room needed to be painted. So I got bids for wallpaper removal/covering...whatever just so it will be ready to paint. There turned out to be up to 12+ layers of paper and the first guys that started it quit two hours into the job. I was so pissed. This morning another random Mexican painter called me saying he would do the job, well at least look at it. So I made a deal. Gave him the code to the front door and am hoping for the best. Because this doesn't look good.

Walla Walla

I went for a week, we drank wine every night and I painted when Jennifer and David were at work. Here are some animals. I took no pictures.

First etsy.com sale!

This is was what she bought! The donut! For some reason was the most looked at item. Maybe this woman kept looking at it and just had to buy it. It is pretty cute.

Thanks!

I've been busy...

and I haven't been dating. I think I'm officially an old maid or a cougar with out any prey.

Maui in May

Heather and I went to Maui for some sun, because it' been 50 degrees or colder in Seattle for the last 5 months, when will Summer arrive? We did yoga, walked on the beach, seached for shells, got tan, had breakfast at Grandma's coffee house, saw horses by the side of the road, people watched by the Westin pool. It was beautiful.

Unfortunately I had a memory card with a memory 0f 10 photos. Annoying.