Friday, February 26, 2010

Well, the snow is still around from last Sunday's snow "dump". It has slowly been melting but it is still very evident that there was a lot of snow here lately. Now I hear there will be more snow starting tonight into tomorrow. I guess that's global warming for ya. We'll probably have snow on the first day of Spring. That's nice. Really.

As I said in my earlier blog, we (my husband and myself) have not lived here our whole lives. We both grew up in So Calif. We met during the summer between our Junior and Senior years in high school. He was a friend of my older sister's boyfriend. That's how that happened. He was so special and I just thought he was great. Well, being from different high schools - he went to a different one than me - we just kinda grew apart our senior year. But I still thought about him. Then we saw each other off and on throughout the years, but not too much came of that. Then in August of 2003 I was surfing the Web and went on classmates.com. Well, guess what? There he was, my old flame from high school. I emailed him, he emailed me, that went on for a while. (Unfortunately, he had moved to Florida, of all places, and I, being the homebody I am, was still in So Calif). We met up at Thanksgiving that year "half-way", well, actually, it was Arizona, but still far for me, but a lot farther for him. LOL - We hit it off, got married in January of 2004 and then (thank God) moved back out 'west' to Nevada. This marriage was 30 years in the making. And we finally made it. It's been a great marriage, of course we had (and still have) our ups and downs. I mean, people have a lot of baggage in 30 years, you know? But we're very happy and very much in love. We have our five dogs, no kids for us (too old, anyway). We do have kids from previous marriages - he a daughter, me a son. So that's cool.

But I can go on and on forever.
It's 10:26am and my day off (LOVE IT) -
I work 4-10's at my job so every week I get a 3-day weekend. My weekend is Wed, Thurs, Friday. Love those days. I mean, with no little ones to worry about school, babysitters, etc etc, well, those days work out great for me. Saturday as a Monday is too cool, too. Great life, great marriage, great home - I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.

This blogging stuff is fun. I am enjoying just jotting down stuff that just pops into my brain. Maybe I'll get a little bit better at this and write about something that might interest someone somewhere. Or not. We'll see.

First time blogging

This is my first blog. I have never blogged before because I didn't really know what to talk about. But I decided to just jump in there and try it.

I live in Northern Nevada. We just had a major snow storm (February 21) that left us, where we live, anyway, with about 3-4 feet of snow in our yard. We have five dogs that just love the snow, but at this time of year I am thinking more about springtime and warm(er) weather. Oh well, that's the breaks. Having grown up in Southern California, I am not too swift with the snow. It's beautiful and fun if you just get to stay home, nice and cozy. But driving around in the stuff is pretty scary. Especially the hours I work, which are 12noon to 10pm at night, I get off work and the temperature has dropped to below freezing. With half melted snow and freezing temperatures, it makes for a pretty wild ride home. But I've been pretty lucky so far.

Here is our table on our deck. Nice.

Anyway, enough about the snow.

I started making handmade jewelry about 1-1/2 years ago just as a hobby. I soon had so many items made and not enough friends and family to give all my creations away to, so I decided to search for options on selling my stuff. I joined ArtFire not too long ago and only have a few designs listed there. I am working with my polymer clay to get some St. Patrick's Day things made in time. I think I might be cutting that a little too close. But if anyone out there is interested in looking, go to www.tstrinkets.artfire.com. You just might find something there you like.

Well, like I said, I better get some trinkets made for St. Pat's Day. I'll be blogging again soon.

Thanks for viewing.