January 2009

January 2009. A New Year.

January has come and gone and I felt the need to sit down and write before another month has come and gone!! The happenings around here seem endless with little time in the day to do more then contemplate picking up a pen or keyboard! As I’ve gotten older, life seems to be sailing by at gale force speed! Someone asked me awhile back if I could have one wish – what would it be? My answer was to be cloned. Why???…..so I could take a nap and not miss anything!

With the New Year comes a new look to my Blog! I'm still learning my way around in here and upon each visit - I find some new and fun things! Hopefully this format will help in reading my writings! For some reason, my paragraphs all run together once the Blog is posted. Thanks for your patience while I learn to work out the bugs of HTML!!

The New Year rang in uneventful. Well….if you call fireworks going off while I was trying to sleep “uneventful” – then, yes…it was uneventful. We had made and shared our resolutions that evening during dinner. With the most important one being that we are forever thankful! Someone once sent me the writing below and it is something that I have memorized over the years.

May you have enough happiness to keep you happy.
Enough trials to keep you strong.
Enough sorrow to keep you human.
Enough hope to keep you thoughtful.
Enough failure to keep you humble.
Enough success to keep you eager.
Enough friends to give you comfort.
Enough faith and courage in yourself to banish depression.
Enough wealth to meet your daily needs.
Enough determination to make each day a better day than yesterday.

January brought us to both happy places and a sad one as well.

Health wise, the boys both came down with colds! Something we don’t see often in our household. For some reason, it avoided me. Probably because I was needed to find the Vicks, fill the humidifiers, and stock the tissue boxes! They (boys) were miserable for the first couple of days, but now (a week later) still sound funny but seem to be coping. We’re hoping with the warm weather coming this week that the symptoms are gone soon!

Weather! Our cold spell came and went…..and we hope it stays gone! While it’s been in the upper 30’s for lows at night, the days are warming to near 60 and being forecast for even upper 60’s this coming week! The sun is out and skies are a beautiful blue as always. We consider ourselves so lucky when the weather channel shows tapes of what our friends and family are dealing with! Maybe they’ll consider relocating one of these days!


Robert has been putting in a bit of overtime this month – working the occasional Saturday when he’s needed. The Conventions are keeping him very busy! Not to mention that they keep him in great shape with all the walking he does!
We just learned that MGM signed a five-year contract with NEC, so we’re confident that our job security is in place…at least for now! Something to be very thankful for in this economy.

Randall is moving up the ranks in his job too. He’s been recommended to take the lead position at his post. If this goes through (the lead guy wants to retire) then Randall will go to days and his weekends will be free! With the social life he is creating here – this new schedule will work out much better then what he does now. Sleeping all day and working all night.

Speaking of a social life, Randall and I have embarked on a new adventure! We’ve joined a club of sorts. The Kingdom of Vega! A non-profit, educational organization that was created in 1991. We are all about re-creating the Middle Ages through hands on experience! I’ve posted the link below should anyone want more information! The website is simple, to the point, and the pictures show some of the things that take place.

http://www.ecs-vega.org/index.html

We’ve been busy researching our new personas….names, time periods, garb, etc..! While Randall’s main focus is the Chivalry part, he’s learning that the arts can be fun as well as educational! He’s designing his own wardrobe and with mom’s help, he’s learning to sew! He’s even created his own patterns! Apparently, this will help earn him the points needed to become knighted later. I’m not sure how everything works yet – research is a big part of this organization and we’re both having fun with it!




Byrdbell Company is back and running at warp speed again! As usual, I’m backed up but enjoying the ability to be working again! We’ve developed some new designs, which will be introduced, soon on our website. Speaking of that website – we’ve found a lovely person to update and maintain our online catalog! She’s already worked magic just fixing some of the things that were in need of attention! It won’t be long before she has all of our new products listed! We are VERY excited! The link is listed somewhere on my BLOG should anyone wish to visit!
http://www.byrdbell.com

On a sad note, we lost our beloved little guinea pig this past month. We think we witnessed her having a stroke early one morning and she passed on but a short time later. Bindy had been with us only a few short years but was loved and will be sadly missed. Rest in peace, little boodles.


The birds are doing great! They seemed to have forgiven me for messing up their schedules while I was recovering. Tommy still has a bout or two a day of separation anxiety. Screams his head off if anyone gets between me and his line of vision. Who’d have thought that birds could develop such behaviors! We’re working with him daily to give him the encouragement he needs to put his fears to rest. Thankfully, we’re noticing improvement daily!


Well, that’s about all I have to report for now! We love and miss everyone and hope to hear from you when time allows! Until next time, stay warm and safe!!

Best Wishes,
Crystal

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