Dear Shell,
Much has happened so far in 2010.
As you can see in the coupon savings widget on the right, I am again attempting to track all grocery savings for the year. I did pretty good in 2009. Hopefully I can improve on the savings in 2010. My goal is to save at least $700 this year with coupons and other savings.
In January, we moved into our new house. It's quickly become home to us, not just a house. We're still not fully unpacked, but some of the stuff is in the breezeway and it's freezing out there, so I told J that we'd wait til it warmed up a little before heading out there to go through the boxes. Most of it is knick-knacks and books, everything else is in the house and mostly unpacked. My office/craft room is still a mess. The shelves I planned on putting in here are still in the garage, we just haven't taken the time to clean them up and bring them in yet.
At the end of January I finally found a job (thanks to my best friend Jenn!). I'm back working for a company that I worked for back in 1995-1998. Lots has changed, and some is still the same. I'm doing a different job now though. I'm a Manufacturing Technician 1, whereas when I worked for them before I was a Machine Operator. I'm enjoying the work, it's fairly easy and I get to work with my hands. Oh yeah, I get to play with power tools! The hours are not too bad either, I'm actually getting about 6 hours of sleep each night, which is just about right (if i try to go to bed early, I still end up waking up after 6 hours anyways). I've been there a month now and I'm still liking it.
Around the same time that I started the job, we got a new kitten. My cousin Lisa rescued some kittens from behind her work, so J and I talked about it and decided to help her out by adopting one of the kittens. Penelope, or Penny, is a tuxedo cat (black and white) with very unusual copper colored eyes. J picked the name Penelope out before he even saw her, based on the description I gave him of her colors. And once we realized what color her eyes were, the nickname Penny really seemed to fit. She's a cuddler and she loves my hair. At night, at least a couple nights a week, she'll come into the bedroom and curl up around my head (back paws at my neck, body wrapped around the top of my head, and her head resting by my ear). She's only 4 pounds right now, so her weight isn't enough to affect my sleeping. Once she gets bigger though, she's not going to be able to sleep like that.
I don't remember if I mentioned it in an earlier blog post, but our house came with a small apple orchard. We were told maybe 7 apple trees. But looking at our backyard and counting all the trees that look similar (crooked trunks, short, similar branches, etc)... I think we have around 30-35 apple trees! I hope everyone at work likes apples because I'll be taking in boxes and boxes of them. As long as we don't kill the trees on accident! I've already started researching what we need to do with fertilizing, pruning, and stuff like that. Still need to figure out what we need to do for disease- and worm-prevention.
Now that I'm getting fairly adjusted to my new schedule (omg I have to get UP at 5am, not go to bed AT 5am!!), I'm finally getting back into some writing. I'm working on a short story right now to get the creative juices flowing again. Then I'll jump back into editing my first two novels, "Dragon Eye" and "Hideaway Inn".
Well I need to go take care of some household stuff!
Searching for a new red pen,
Shell
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