:: Brinna's ::

:: Sunday, July 09, 2006 ::

Today is one of the rare times where Alice is asleep, everyone's gone, and I actually remembered to write, all at the same time. Amazing.

I don't think I've written that we found a house we're buying. It's a ranch style house, so it doesn't have a lot of 'charm', and it doesn't have a large kitchen, but it has a small room right next to the kitchen we're going to annex in the future, and a large added- on room. It has hardwood floors everywhere but the beds and baths, and guest bath has ceramic tile. Eventually Andrew wants to expand the small master bath by moving out a wall, I think, and building himself a cinder block workshop with electricity. We don't really need anything done in the house immediately but we're going to replace the master bedroom carpet first.

My job continues to be a good deal--I'm also knitting at home, I made a poncho first. It took me about 7 hours I think, and she paid me $60. Woohoo! The yarn was ugly though, it was some of that fuzzy stuff, and it was a terrible color--red with different colors mixed in, like yellow, slate blue, bright pink. It looked like someone puked up V8. Ah, well... I've also started to make my own bead and wire jewelry to sell. Some of the girls I work with make jewelry as well as sew, and it sells well, because people look at the displays while they wait, and they like that they're supporting the local young people, I think. So I decided to try it. My boss said she has already almost sold one of the 2 sets I made, the day after I brought it in. She takes 20% of the things I bring in to sell, but that's not too bad, because jewelry supplies aren't that expensive, and if it looks good you can put a department store price on it. My boss priced the set at $125.

Right now Andrew is teaching one of his military friends and Johnny how to drive a stickshift. I wonder how it's going.

Alice is doing great, crawling like a pro, and fast too. I went to a bookstore the other day and I set her down so I could gather my things better, and she was a few yards away in a matter of seconds. She's starting to use both feet instead of her knees, I don't know if that means something as far as walking, but she is cruising the furniture a lot. Not talking with words really yet, but making sounds that sound more like vocals than grunts. :)

Andrew says his job is just as boring here as it was in Korea. That is, they don't really do anything but sit around. They're on an airfield, for crying out loud, and they don't do air traffic control. It's contracted out to civilians. Military does it in places like Iraq, but they're in the process of turning that over to the civilians, too. Although I don't think that means he won't go next year, it probably just means he'll be bored there too.

Hmmm....what else is going on...well, my legs are asleep from sitting on them, Alice is starting to wake up, and I'm hungry. Maybe next time I'll be in my own house sitting on the floor!

:: Brinna 10:05 AM [+] ::
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