Wow! So I finally found my blog again! It's about time, isn't it?
Sorry, if anyone has been checking for new posts. It's been, what, like 3 years???!!!! Unbelievable! Thank you to Bonnie over at www.boutiquebybonnie.blogspot.com for having such a great blog and jewelry site that I had to subscribe to her blog, and then found out that my blog has been residing somewhere in cyberspace as well.
Well, enough incredulity. Here's what new with us now.
We now have more room, because we moved to a house in a beautiful suburb about 50 miles out of Chicago (well, it might be too far to be called a suburb, though some do). It's a great city, with 2 totally different areas; one is the "old city", which has an old downtown area where people have businesses within their homes, and there are hand-painted signs in front of these homes advertising the business inside. It's so neat. Then there's a new-fangled section of this same town, about 5 miles away, where it's completely lined on both sides of a 3-lane highway with wall to wall big name businesses. Well, some of the businesses are not doing so well; the Circuit City, Fashion Bug, and the other innocent victims of this economic "downturn" are encountering difficulties, but the remaining businesses are still providing one heck of a tax base to keep the city alive. This city even has 2 post offices and 2 libraries. The smaller ones are by us, but one is better than none. There's a river running through the middle of the "old city", which unfortunately has flooded the past 2 years, which hadn't happened for like 50 years prior to that, and we live about 1/2 mile away from the river, but way up on the hill so flooding from the river is not a concern.
The kids adjusted well to the move. It was hard for my girl at first, because she was so popular and had so many friends in her old school, but the new school district is much better than where we were, and the housing is way way more affordable, as well. Plus, she's made some good friends, and even has a 'boyfriend' of sorts. She even has her own cat whom she absolutely adores; she needs all the affection she can get, so having her own cat is a good thing. Yes, it should now be 4cats, 3 kids, 1 pig and HIM, but I won't bother changing the name.
I find it really amazing how much people move around nowadays. Maybe it was always that way, but I don't remember it as such. I went to the same school district my whole life, from K-12, and our family only moved after I reached college age. It seems like having a kid in my class move or show up was a real rarity. I only mention this because one of my daughter's really good friends is going to be moving at the end of the school year, and she's too sad to talk about it yet, my kids have kids showing up and leaving from their classroom pretty regularly.
Well, I still have the online business. It's been slow for a while; it's starting to pick up marginally. I need to, as always, get way more items listed again. It's harder now, though, because I am going back to school for my Bachelor's degree finally in Organizational Management with a concentration in Psychology (Yay, me!). It is online, and I know, when I was first thinking about it, I was like, how in the heck do I know if this school is legit or not? So I went the easy route and picked an online school that already had a real brick and mortar location and had branched out to online. Therefore, I picked Ashford University, in Iowa. The courses are pretty rigorous, each one runs only 5 weeks, and participation is mandatory. There's also a major 8-10 page paper due at the end of each class. That one is the real pain in the butt. But it's a legit school, and, supposedly, more affordable than most online schools. That I don't know for sure, but if I get my degree and it's real, that's all that matters. I've still been at home with the youngest. We moved very close to the school, so we are classified as walkers, which means I have to actually drive the kids to school each day and pick them up each day, which is really more of a pain than you can probably imagine. Perhaps, when they get older they'll be able to make the trip on their own. That makes a job harder too, because of the way we have to be home for them before and after school which means I would need a very flexible job. Economics are becoming pretty tight, though, so alternatives are going to have to be explored, and quickly.
I have become way more interested in alternative healing, so I have taken a Reiki class, with the intention of continuing my studies and taking Reiki II and III as well. Reiki is a way of channeling ambient energy for the purpose of healing of mind and body. I was a little skeptical when I took my first class, too, but subsequently actually felt the transfer of energy, and realized that it is a real phenomenon, which makes it Way Cool!
I've been trying to become more attuned with positive energies around me, and I love this area, cause there is a lot of positive energy here, I feel.
Well, enough for now. I will return to this place later, because it's really cool and I realize I have my blog again!
Sorry, if anyone has been checking for new posts. It's been, what, like 3 years???!!!! Unbelievable! Thank you to Bonnie over at www.boutiquebybonnie.blogspot.com for having such a great blog and jewelry site that I had to subscribe to her blog, and then found out that my blog has been residing somewhere in cyberspace as well.
Well, enough incredulity. Here's what new with us now.
We now have more room, because we moved to a house in a beautiful suburb about 50 miles out of Chicago (well, it might be too far to be called a suburb, though some do). It's a great city, with 2 totally different areas; one is the "old city", which has an old downtown area where people have businesses within their homes, and there are hand-painted signs in front of these homes advertising the business inside. It's so neat. Then there's a new-fangled section of this same town, about 5 miles away, where it's completely lined on both sides of a 3-lane highway with wall to wall big name businesses. Well, some of the businesses are not doing so well; the Circuit City, Fashion Bug, and the other innocent victims of this economic "downturn" are encountering difficulties, but the remaining businesses are still providing one heck of a tax base to keep the city alive. This city even has 2 post offices and 2 libraries. The smaller ones are by us, but one is better than none. There's a river running through the middle of the "old city", which unfortunately has flooded the past 2 years, which hadn't happened for like 50 years prior to that, and we live about 1/2 mile away from the river, but way up on the hill so flooding from the river is not a concern.
The kids adjusted well to the move. It was hard for my girl at first, because she was so popular and had so many friends in her old school, but the new school district is much better than where we were, and the housing is way way more affordable, as well. Plus, she's made some good friends, and even has a 'boyfriend' of sorts. She even has her own cat whom she absolutely adores; she needs all the affection she can get, so having her own cat is a good thing. Yes, it should now be 4cats, 3 kids, 1 pig and HIM, but I won't bother changing the name.
I find it really amazing how much people move around nowadays. Maybe it was always that way, but I don't remember it as such. I went to the same school district my whole life, from K-12, and our family only moved after I reached college age. It seems like having a kid in my class move or show up was a real rarity. I only mention this because one of my daughter's really good friends is going to be moving at the end of the school year, and she's too sad to talk about it yet, my kids have kids showing up and leaving from their classroom pretty regularly.
Well, I still have the online business. It's been slow for a while; it's starting to pick up marginally. I need to, as always, get way more items listed again. It's harder now, though, because I am going back to school for my Bachelor's degree finally in Organizational Management with a concentration in Psychology (Yay, me!). It is online, and I know, when I was first thinking about it, I was like, how in the heck do I know if this school is legit or not? So I went the easy route and picked an online school that already had a real brick and mortar location and had branched out to online. Therefore, I picked Ashford University, in Iowa. The courses are pretty rigorous, each one runs only 5 weeks, and participation is mandatory. There's also a major 8-10 page paper due at the end of each class. That one is the real pain in the butt. But it's a legit school, and, supposedly, more affordable than most online schools. That I don't know for sure, but if I get my degree and it's real, that's all that matters. I've still been at home with the youngest. We moved very close to the school, so we are classified as walkers, which means I have to actually drive the kids to school each day and pick them up each day, which is really more of a pain than you can probably imagine. Perhaps, when they get older they'll be able to make the trip on their own. That makes a job harder too, because of the way we have to be home for them before and after school which means I would need a very flexible job. Economics are becoming pretty tight, though, so alternatives are going to have to be explored, and quickly.
I have become way more interested in alternative healing, so I have taken a Reiki class, with the intention of continuing my studies and taking Reiki II and III as well. Reiki is a way of channeling ambient energy for the purpose of healing of mind and body. I was a little skeptical when I took my first class, too, but subsequently actually felt the transfer of energy, and realized that it is a real phenomenon, which makes it Way Cool!
I've been trying to become more attuned with positive energies around me, and I love this area, cause there is a lot of positive energy here, I feel.
Well, enough for now. I will return to this place later, because it's really cool and I realize I have my blog again!
posted by missKimSu | 7:56 PM
1 Comments:
I'm glad you "found yourself" again! Now you need to add the "Follow Me" widgit to your blog, and any other add-ins you want. I keep tweaking mine, though I think it's just about how I want it.
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