Cafe in the Woods

Back at my fave cafe and I think I have found the cute little rental just around the corner for the rest of the fall & winter into spring. It even has a view of the water :-). So we shall see but keep those fingers crossed and those prayers comin. The temp job is going alright. This week definitely went better than last week with the exception that I am not sure how long the assignment will be but that's part of the adventure right? ;-).

Working on trying to find the time to do some knitting projects and work more on quilts. Traveling back and forth for work and then on the weekends makes it more challenging.

I did discover that my cousins Dave & Heather live just around the corner from the Debbie Macomber's yarn shop "On Blossom Street"!! I went in there on Tuesday and it is absolutely amazing! Good thing I don't have much room in my budget or that could definitely be a dangerous place indeed. I found a new book, a skein of some really pretty green yarm, and some new needles to make myself a new scarf for the winter with my birthday gift card from Mom Sherri & Michael. Looking forward to starting that soon as my left hand is not so soar from shutting it in the car door the other night.

Lights to Explore

Oh I absolutely love my new headlamp that my sis sent me for my birthday! I love my birthday box all of it but the headlamp was a special treat. I remember when we used to live on Queen Anne hill in Seattle and we would go for night hikes along the water looking at sealife in the tidepools. You had two headlamps and I had not worn one before and wow it was so much easier to see everything with. Now...I have my own and can peer over the edge of the dock when the People of Puget Sound do peer by the pier events, or use when I go hiking, or even setting up my tent at night when traveling if need be.
Thank you sis :-)!

The first 6 of 36

Today was the sixth day of me being thiry-six. The end of the first week and all the celebrating from all week long. It has been one of the better more memorable birthdays than some others. I started the week off waking up to a beautiful Autumn morning on the Olympic peninsula and spent the morning of my birthday playing with dogs, watching a movie on tv, doing laundry, and just relaxing in my pj's :-). The rest of the day was amazing which included a really nice surprise birthday dinner with C and he taught me how to play the slot machines lol which was a lot of fun followed by a trip for ice cream on the way home. Lots of well wishers through phone calls, texts, email, etc. Aww I feel so blessed :-). Thank you to all of you!

The weekend before Mom and Auntie and I went on a local quilt shop hop to ten different stores in five different counties! It was a lot of fun and we got lots of goodies. Thanks Mom! This past Saturday Mom went with me to go see the new movie "Legend of the Guardians: The Owl's of Ga'Hoole" at one of the local theaters and it was really good. Sunday Dad made me a special birthday heart cake and dinner. Totally awesome to see him and my dog.

Somewhere amidst all of those days of celebrating I had a job interview and got the job too. First time in a long time I went to an interview without a copy of my resume and they hired me!

So this year is off to a good start and hopefully the year is a good one most days to come.

Happy Autumn :-)