I know, I know...it's been almost 3 months since I've posted anything! I didn't want to let March completely come and go without putting up something in 2010, so away we go...
2010 rolled in with a bang, and I intend to keep up the momentum. With the exception of slacking on this blog, I feel like I've really been doing well this year keeping my goals in a reality check and trying to accomplish what I want to without biting off more than I can chew.
I still don't have my etsy page up and running yet, but I've been working on inventory and should have some items up by the end of the month (!) and hopefully will have some photos up as well. As much as I love my day job, I long for the day when I can make Idle Hands my only full-time assignment and take pictures of the sunrise instead of having to get in the car for the 30-mile commute every morning. I have worked 2 full-time jobs simultaneously before, but when one of them involves an hour and a half round-trip commute each day and the other one involves weekly hours of beadweaving, traveling hither and thither to find the perfect shot, and making sure I'm not knitting when I'm supposed to be purling, I am left with little time to appreciate the other wonderful things that make up my life.
Of course, that takes me back to my goals - to improve my skills at managing and juggling everything - and I mean all of it. Marriage (hopefully a family soon), my family and friendships (which I would be miserable without), maintaining a house, garden and flower beds (us Southern girls can't go without hydrangeas and a vegetable garden, you know), going to the gym, the guitar and writing music, and then finding time to just relax and veg out on the couch every once in a while is nice, too. Throw in a piano, trying to teach myself Spanish and getting back to violin lessons, and I need a few more hours in the day. But I think about my mother and what all she did when I was growing up, and I look at my sister and what she is able to get done and the things she does with her daughters and I know it's possible. I hope that I can inspire my nieces like the women in my life have inspired me.
Now, onto the day job...on November 21, 2007, Samuel James Cooper, Jr. was arrested for robbing a bank in Garner, NC. He later confessed to 5 murders that he committed between May 2006 and October 2007. It is now 2010 and we have finally started his trial. Jury selection took a month and evidence started this past Monday, 3/15/10. Monday went really well, and Tuesday the jury got to listen to his confessions. We went into court yesterday and found out that one of his attorneys had gone to the ER early that morning and was diagnosed with pneumonia. So just as we got started picking up speed, we have come to a screeching halt. We start back Monday, which I'm looking forward to, I just feel bad for all my witnesses! Occupational hazard, I guess - but as many trials as I have coordinated for Jeff, I'm used to people being upset with me. Oh, well, we all have a job to do, don't we?
Speaking of jobs, I better get back to mine...I promise to get better at this blogging thing...have I promised that before? Well, this time I mean it.
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