First, let me talk about work. Right now, it's going great. I was having a hard time for awhile with certain aspects of it, but things have finally seemed to iron themselves out. I was doing 100% Starbucks, but now I'm doing one or two courtesy clerk/cashier shifts a week, which I love. I mean, Starbucks is fun, but I was getting tired of doing the same thing every day, especially when I knew how to do other departments. I really want to be trained for both deli and produce, but you have to be 18 for that, so I can't do those quite yet. I might even ask to be trained for office. I don't know about that. Right now there's an opportunity for someone to train for office, and I'm still trying to decide whether I want to talk to someone about it or not. I definitely don't want to do office full time, but I'd like to be trained in as many departments as possible. Who knows what I'll do...
I'm still doing music lessons. I decided to continue doing violin with my teacher, but since I can't do them at the music school anymore, I'm doing them privately, which I actually like better. They're going pretty well, although as I'm getting into more complicated songs and techniques, I'm having a harder time. Miss Anna is super patient with me though, which is great! Voice is going great, thank goodness. Sometimes I wonder why Mr. Addleman hasn't kicked me out of his office yet, but he hasn't, so I keep going every week. :D
Through work I met this super nice lady, Letty, who is a Christain, homeschooling mom. She's super nice, and when she found out I did violin, asked if I could teach her 11-year-old daughter Renee. I said that I could definitely get her started. So, I have a violin student! :D She's a super fast learner, which is really nice. We haven't been doing lessons since about Thanksgiving because of an issue with her violin, but it's been super fun. The amazingly awesome plus is that in exchange for doing lessons, Letty brings me food sometimes for my lunch breaks. And let me tell you, Letty makes AWESOME tacos. And burgers. And burritos. And bacon-wrapped hot dogs....
I've been taking a break from my Etsy orders for awhile. It was just getting way too hard to go to work for 8 hours, and then have to deal with the stress of 15 orders when I get home. I'm still doing blankets, but they're mainly ones that I already have done. Plus, it's given me plenty of opportunities to finish up blankets, like one for Hannah I've been working on for about 3 years. Yeah. 3 years. I also got to finish up one for Annbeth, and I gave them both their blankets for Christmas. Now I'm working on one for a friend from work, and another one for my uncle, who has cancer.
Let's see... What else has been happening? Well, Jonathan just turned 16, and has his permit. Hannah has been playing cello in the Willcox Middle School Orchestra, which she loves, and is great at. Oh, and Danielle will be 2 on the 17th. 2. I can't believe it. She talks up a storm. She knows Mom, Dad, apple, bye, hi, what (like she'll pick up a toy phone, and say "Hi. What? Bye."), stop, up, down, help (although that sounds more like hep), and a bunch more. It's absolutely adorable. Oh yeah, and uh oh. She loves that one. :) Her favorite thing is a tv show called Hi-5. It's all songs and dances, and she totally will do them. She knows most of the dances perfectly (for a 2 year old), and if we were to start singing them, without the show even being on, she'll start dancing. I can't believe how fast she's growing up.
I'm trying to decide whether I should do a "105 in 2015" like I did in 2013. It was kinda fun. What do you guys think?
Ok, I think that's all for right now. I think I'm gonna try and do at least one post a week. More would be better, but we'll see what happens. :)
