Night shift weeks should be more exciting

Another week and another list of no job prospects. I do feel good about the Kiwi Can leadership application I made out. I really do hope that I make the short list of applicants. It would just be super. I'm trying to put all my effort into getting this job. You deal with children from 5-15 at different schools teaching them good values and healthy life practices to use. That doesn't mean that I haven't been trying with my other applications because I have. Its just that I think this job would be so ideal for me. My friend Patty gave me a good idea too about renting out my services as a scrapbooker for people who want a scrapbook but not the motivation or creativity. I'm looking into it; I'm just not sure how to pimp myself out because of my lack of friends here. If it was New Mexico, I don't think that I would have a problem.

This week was night shift which meant that Gordon got to spend the day with me. Monday started with, what else, golf. That's the round where I told Gordon he needs to cool down and not worry about Interbase golf. He also forgot to call his parents on Sunday so he had to call them Monday morning. I usually remind him to call but I fell asleep at 8:30 that night and stayed asleep the rest of the night! Its nice not having to cook as much because Gordon isn't at home, a good break, but I shouldn't get used to it.

Gordon decided to take me to Virginia Lake again. This time though, we packed the picnic and not the blanket. We chose a bench to eat at so the ducks couldn't get so much access to us. I was able to feed them the little bread crusts and crushed crackers that we had. Gordon and I had a good time watching all the little birdies in the aviary. There were some cockatiels trying to get under a partition in the enclosures. One actually got through but the others didn't take his lead so they were stuck on the other side. We also saw ten baby duckies, they had grown since we saw them last. I think we spent a lot of time just watching the birds in the aviary. We also took a walk around the lake and ran into the duck/bird thing that reminded me of a dog. He always wags his tail and sometimes it sounds like he's panting. Maybe its just adaptive behavior from watching dogs around the park. After lunch, Gordon read his book and I worked on my Kiwi Can application along with my mini-sermon for Sunday. I got the application finished and most of the sermon completed. We had some ice cream before we left for Bulls. Mine was Banana Chocolate Chip with Passion Fruit ice cream and Gordon just got Banana Chocolate Chip. Gordon doesn't seem to like to mix his ice cream flavors.

Wednesday I had a doctor appt. It was for that test that all women hate, you know what I'm taking about. The one you have to get every year-3 years or so. I decided to suck it up and be a big girl though. It wasn't so bad and the nurse was nice to try and talk to me to get me to relax. Gordon went to go play the Ohakea club day so I didn't get to see much of him until he came home late, late that night. Apparently he did do well though and got two free golf balls out of the deal.

Thursday I got myself a hair cut. The ends really needed trimming and I was looking at something different. So I cut my hair short! It's an okay style but I really do miss my stylist back home. She really knew how to work with my hair and what was okay and what was not. My hair doesn't look like a disaster or anything but it could have been done better at the front. Oh well, just means I have time to grow it out again. It is a lot easier to work with in the summer now though and I don't have piles of hair making my neck and back sweat. We also went into town to get the car's Warrent of Fitness. We did a drive-through thing and it all went smoothly. We also got some more garden edging for my side garden of the house. My little seedlings haven't popped-up yet, except for a cosmo, but I'm being patient. We also looked at trellis' for the cucumbers because they need something to grow up on.

Our trip to the grocery store was pretty good. I was so happy because we got out of there with only having to spend $118. That's the lowest yet. I guess that just means that my pantry is really well-stocked finally. I found that I have a lot of ground beef in the freezer and need to start working on chicken. We also are saving money because of the garden now. The green beans are ready to be picked and so are a number of other veggies. We pick them as we eat them that way we don't have too much in the fridge. I still have a whole zucchini that needs to be taken care of, sliced and diced.

That's it for now. See you all next week!