It's MARCH!

This is what my week looked like, but I feel like I didn't do anything.

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What did I do of note?

Job: I finished some articles.  I did some training.  I got a new job writing a performance review for some business man.  He needed to tactfully say this guy is doing a good job here, but not so well here.  And ya’ll know how tactful I am!  But since I spent 7 years telling students what they did well, what they didn’t do well, and how to fix it… I thought I could help him out.  Sounds interesting.

I decided to focus my copywriting on the alternative investment niche.  So I signed up for some groups on LinkedIn and am working to learn more.

Speaking of alternative investing, even after I thought I got everything settled with my IRA trust companies, it took 2 more phone calls to really, really, I think, get it settled.  In the mean time, the Portis sale seems to be moving ahead.  So I have been looking at what to do with the money from that sale.  I went looking at properties on Saturday.  Some were more promising than others. 

Are any of you familiar with peer to peer lending? I’ve been looking into that, too.

Church:  The recipe collection is finished for our ward.  Tom, bless his heart!, helped me type a number of them into the computer.  Now I’m getting the files of the other wards and branches. I have not yet started to collate them.

In the mean time, it’s the end of the month and my information for Seminary and institute teachers are due. I have  four teachers that haven’t put any attendance into WISE since the first of the month.  I will have to ask them to kindly get on the stick.

I didn’t do anything with my Teacher Development class this week as we didn’t have a class today.  See?  I, too, can kick the can down the road… to next Sunday.

Tuesday night I decided to work with clay and made a few small dishes and some that were a little larger. I had some left over clay and decided to make some essential oil pendants.  This is where the necklace has a small hole in the pendent so you can put a drop or two of essential oil in it.  Then you can sniff to uplift or stop allergies or whatever.  Friday I went to Marian's and worked. Some of my test glaze pieces came out and a dish that I just love! 

  I was so pleased with it, I used it to serve brownies at the wedding on Saturday.  I worked on glazing some pieces while I was at Marians as well.  It seemed like slow going.  With glazes, every time you open the kiln it’s Christmas!  You never know what you will find.

Saturday we had another wedding.  Cute couple.  They’ve been coming to church for a while.  They seem like they will be happy together. Saturday I also finally planted some seeds.  I had bought some heritage seeds at the meeting last Saturday and got those planted.  But for the life of me, I can’t figure out where I put the seeds I’d bought last year. Grrr.  And Broccoli is the first thing that can go into the garden.

We ordered chickens this week, too.  From Cackle Hatchery.  We’d gone to Orchlands to look for chicks and ended up talking to another shopper who raised chickens. He raved about the Cinnamon Queen chickens that were laying so well in winter without a light.  So we decided to order 10 of those and 5 fryer chickens.  It’s time to get up the gumption to butcher birds.  People say they taste much better.

Of course the enlarged number of chickens means an enlarged chicken coop… which has yet to be built.  But we went to the neighbors to see his coop and got some ideas.

Tom had an interview in Springfield with the Stake President and so on his way he picked up some Underarmor so he could be a ‘real’ runner.  And he got some fencing for our back fence line. It’s more of a suggestion than a fence in some places.

We have tried to walk/run three times this week.  I walk. Tom runs.  And Tom has successfully navigated through a dozen or so more slide trays turning the old film slides into digital images and labeling them.

Tomorrow is Kenya's national election.  Please pray for the people and the nation that it will be honest and peaceful.