Busy Busy Busy

I thought life would slow down once my waiting game ended. WRONG!!!!

We have entered our busy season at work, which means the added potential of going in early or staying late just to stay afloat. I anticipate that beginning next week, I'll have the phone glued to my little ear, and I'll be saying "Grand Central Station...how may I direct your call?"

I spent the last few days catching up on all the things I didn't quite get around to in the baby-waiting-game days. I made a ton of cards. (I told the post office lady on Monday that I thought it was my personal record for number of cards sent to one household in one day: five.) I got mostly caught up on the scrapping. Just a couple of undone pages to tidy up. I cleaned the house. Sort of. I conquered the visible dirt, at any rate.

And then of course, there were the "schedule time out to accomplish this" tasks that had gone unscheduled during that time. Yesterday I had my hair thinned. People, I know that I should be grateful to have a lot of hair, and truly, I try to be, but my GOODNESS!!! I had become a chia pet! It was not good. I also had to get my phone upgraded, because I was way past due for that. My poor phone has been issue-laden for a while due to a rather unfortunate encounter with a wall. Long story.

A couple of days ago, I cooked a meal for my friend Rachel, who is moving soon and needs to focus her time on packing, not cooking. Who has time to cook when there are boxes screaming, "PACK ME!" You should be glad I made that meal...two more recipe posts came out of it!

I started the second half of my blogging Bible study that a couple of you had asked about. I'm learning so much from the girls who are part of that with me!

And...I'm doing some research for a little vacationlet I'm taking with a friend this fall. It cracks me up that when most of my friends begin a sentence with "I'm doing some research," it's for a graduate degree. When I say it...it's all about the travel, baby. All about the travel.

To conclude our time together, here's a bit of trivia for you today. This has been bugging me for some time. Why are the number pads on phones and calculators upside down from one another? As a person who works with calculators all day...and also returns phone calls all day, this can become problematic. I have the potential to either call the wrong person or give someone REALLY bad financial advice! To make my friend Kristin proud...I googled the situation and found a semi-fascinating answer here.