My first Poppet!!

I did it!  I finally made my very first poppet!!  She looks pretty good to.  With some practice I'll get better, but for my first I'm happy with her.  I have decided to giver her to my daughter as a welcome home present.  I got one in the mail a few weeks ago, and she said she wanted one.  So now she will have one!  I have some fun  fabric that I will use to make her some clothes and I have a box i bought last year that I was gonna use to put another doll that I was going to make for her.  Now I think it will be perfect for the pretty poppet I made.  I can't wait to post pics of her!  I need to get a new card reader first though.  Mine has finally died.  Cheap piece of crap! 
I gave the doll blue eyes, and will give her brown hair like my daughter has.  She's pretty big, about 18" or so. 
She was a learning experience to, I can't wait to make more now that I know how easy they are to make, and how fast they whip up to.  So many different kinds that you can make to!  If anyone is interested the original forum that they are in can be found here: Poppet and Punkin Forum

Here's the picture of her, she still needs hair though.

Happy Thursday everyone!!

Tonight's lecture

Wow!  What an informative night tonight's lecture was.  A lot of info about our cover letter and resumes.  Everyone is stressing about the resume part because no one really has a whole lot of experience writting them.  I'm stressed but confident that I will do good on my resume.  I'm not tired, which I'm a little bummed about because I wanted to get up before 9 in the morning.  Hopefully I'll get tired soon.  But there was a lot of information to process in class so I think that's why I'm not so tired.
Tomorrow I will have an early night at school because we have summer celebration and I'm going to go from 4-7 so I'll be home at a reasonable hour tomorrow.  Early to bed tomorrow!  I'm stoked!!  Now isn't that a sign that you're getting old??  When you're excited for an early bed time?  Man I sure hope not!  Hopefully I'll get my resume and what not done fairly eary tomorrow, so I can go shopping and find myself a nice outfit for mock interview.  I knew there was a reason I wanted to go to the good will today.  But anyway, I'm going to go to learn2type.com and see what my WPM is so I can accutately put that on my resume.  Ok, I'll paly with it tonight, then do it again tomorow when I'm refreshed and awake!

Happy Tuesday everyone!!

School

So far school is going great!  I'm getting an A in perssonal development so far.  Still a week and a half left of it.  This week is all about the cover letter and resume.  I'm nervous about this one, I've never really done a resume before, but I'll do my best at it!
I have to admit, that I'm a little disapointed in this class.  I was expecting it to be much harder than it is.  Our teacher is great and I love having her, I just wish there was a little bit more of a challenge in this class.  I was hoping to be better prepared for my Pharmacy tech homework load.  I found out that we will have 2 tests a week, a quiz on mondays and the test on fridays.  Thankfully we won't have a test over the 4 weeks of information.  That's a HUGE releif for me.  I've above what I've expected so far, I've got 100% in professional developement now.  I just need to work my @$$ off to make sure I get that in the rest of the classes.  I want to make sure that I get the best possible grade I can get.  Getting that 4.0 GPA is going to be hard, but as long as I work harder at this than any other schooling I know I can do it.  That's the key  here, I have to beleive I can do it!  And I know I can do it, so I will do it!!  Of course, a little encouragement and prayer from friends and family won't hurt either.  Which reminds me, I better start taking my focus factor, looks like I need to take 4 tablets a day.  I'm going to need a bigger bottle!! lol

Happy Tuesday everyone!!

Starting School!!

So I have officially started school again.  I candefinately ell it's going to be a challenge.  And that I most definately need to brush up on my math.  The first day was, obviously, the easiest.  Day 2, not so bad either.  Got our first batch of homework, and it was a lot of homework to boot.  Well, a lot for someone who hasn't been in school for over 6 years.  I think the biggest challenge is going to be sleep.  On days that I work the morning shift I need to try to get a 20 min nap in there.  And hopefully, I'll be able to sleep later that night.  Thursday will be the first day I'm able to try that.  I hope.  I have to go and give Oma a bath after work, and hopefully get my homework done before school that night.  From what I understand, when I start the Pharm Tech classes, the home work is going to be a lot more.  But that's ok.  I'll just have to learn to juggle and manage my time better.
The thing that really sucks about all this is it doesn't look like I'm going to have time for any stress-relieving activity.  No crochet, no sewing, no beading, nothing.  But it's only for 9 months, and the last month is an externship so I don't t hink I'm going to have any homework then.  I just need to make sure that I can take the whole month off and just do the externship.  I don't think it should be to hard, I mean it's in April.  People don't really take time off in April.
Well, enough procrastinating and wasting time.  I need to get cracking on my homework.  Wish me luck everyone!

What a summer!

WOW!  What a summer it's been so far!  A road trip down 101 to LA, then a boat to Catalina Island, the to Disneyland and SeaWorld, then back up 101 from LA to Portland!  So much fun.  The only thing that sucked about the vacation was the lack of relaxation time.  But it was all still worth it.  We had so much fun! 
Driving down 101 was a first, and boy was it looong!!  We started at 7am the drove to Lincoln City.  We drove a total of 13 hours that first day.  Made it all the way to the Red Wood forest and camped at one of the campsites.  I couldn't beleive how expensive it was.  It was $35 a night!  That's half the cost of a hotel.  But we took it anyway, we were tired and wanted to relax and eat.  It was worth it.  Plus, it was meant to be.  They'd had a last minute cancelation, so we were pretty damn lucky to get the campsite.  If they had been full, I don't know where we would have camped.
The drive was so beautiful!  I'm so glad we made it.  I've never really been that far south along the Oregon coast.  I think we're definately going to have to do it again.  Now that we have a better idea of what to expect.  I would definately like to take more time driving as well.  There is so much to see and so many touristy things to do along the way.  There were quite a few we wanted to do, but by the time we had gotten there, the place was closed.  We really wanted to go through the Trees of Mystery and do their cable car ride that takes you through the tops of them, but maybe some other time. 
I'm not sure what our favorite stop was.  Everything was so gorgeous.  Sadly we didn't stop to watch the sunset anywhere.  But that's ok. We saw it on the way back home.
The second day was just as exciting.  We didn't make as many stops, but we saw lots of pretty scenery.  Most of northern California wasn't along the coast.  But the forrest was still fun.  We got to drive throuh the redwood forest.  Not through one of the trees, but a side road that veered off 101.  That was fun!  Some of the trees came right up to the edge of the road so that if you got to close you'd hit one.  And I couldn't beleive how huge there were!  I've never seen that many trees that large!
I think the neatest thing on the second day, was the San Fransisco bridge.  The only thing that sucked was the toll both, but it was worth it.  We kind of got lost in San Fransisco to.  That was neat.  Went through downtown, at least I think it was.  I wanted to see more, but it was late so we GPS'd it back to the highway.  That's when we cut over to I-5 and made it all the way to Uncle's house.  It was like 1 am by the time we got there.  But they were expecting us so they left the door open.  It was nice to sleep in a bed.  Next time we camp in the back of the explorer, we're taking an air matress.  It will be much more comfy then.
All in all, it was a good learning experience and it was loads of fun.  I definately want to do it again.  But next time, I want to take more time, and do more camping, and take the time to be able to see all the fun neat things along 101

I'll have to add some pictures later, once I upload them onto my computer.

Busy week!!

It's been a very busy week.  I haven't had much time to do anything!  With work, helping my grandparents out and projects that need to get finished before I leave on vacation, there's been no time for blogging!  I hope to get some pictures uploaded soon to my various online social networks and here. :)  I guess it's a good think it decided to rain today, hopefully going to go and visist my grandman today :)

Happy Sunday everyone!!

Little Visitors arrived today!!

My little Visitor arrived today!!  His name is Miles, and he's from the UK. 

He said it was quite a long trip, and he was glad to be here out of the post.  He wanted to go outside and play and stretch, but sadly, Oregon decided to live up to it's reputation.  So, it rained!  And it rained good today!

So glad Oregon could live up to it's reputaion.

He really looks like he wants to go play on the swings!

He'll get to play lots this weekend when we go camping for Memorial day weekend down at Sand Lake. 

Miles wasn't here for very long when he already made some new friends.  Steve and Aang were happy to greet him and make him feel welcome.  Miles shared some of his Shrimp and Nannas candy with them.  He even shared some wtih Lola!  Looks like it worked, because she welcomed him right away!  She's such a good girl!  The other fur babies were being a little on the shy side, but they'll open up to him.  It just takes them a little longer.

Tomorrow, Miles will got to work with me, and meet everyone there!

Hope everyone had a great Thursday!!!