katie2point0

We spent a week in Acadia National Park in Maine in early June. It was great!

I don’t have a power base in Vermont.

I realize that I really just want to take pictures. I got a new tripod for Christmas. Cool.

Wow – I changed jobs and moved to a different city and all my goals went by the wayside. Time to start over.

This sounds like such a good idea, but I never actually want to get started.

My new job title is librarian, so that makes it official.

I sent in an online application for a temporary spot, sent off an application packet for a electronic resources reference librarian (I hope I get that one), also sent in an electronic application package to the coast (another really nice one). I’m driving myself nuts but I’m keeping on.

so… get on with it

I didn’t make my numbers so I have to start this one over.

I have done a lot of the items on PLCMC’s 23 things list but I haven’t completed them all. But, because my 43 things name is katie2point0, I’ll just go ahead and do them all. I’m bound to find more 2.0 stuff along the way. If you are interested you can find the 23things here

I ended up using a wordpress blog and adding pages to include the resume and other elements I wanted. I’m still fiddling with Dreamweaver to build a stand alone site but for now I’m satisfied. With Wordpress, starting from zero experience, I was able to publish everything I needed in a couple of hours…and it’s free. Hard to beat that. Now I have a job search tool I can use and there are some good positions out there, so back to applying for all the jobs I’m qualified for.

applied for one in Virginia and one in Raleigh

Wow, even though I got rid of a lot of things you really can’t tell just by looking around the house. Some of the stuff that went was just stuff I had kept for one reason or another and that had no value or usefulness to me. It is freeing to let that stuff go by. It will make the job of packing up this house easier when the time comes.

1. Two sentimental stuffed toys I’ve owned forever.
2. One wooden paper towel holder.
3. Two more manufactured picture frames, pictures removed.
4. One vinyl mini-blind I found in the back of the closet still in its original box.
5. More old paperback books (one big box).
6. Most of a box of elementary school papers. (I kept the really good ones.)
7. One hundred or more hanging file folders from my old business.
8. Three plastic file boxes.
9. One large trash bag of needless paperwork (mostly from files).
10. Four three-ring binders of various sizes.

I applied for one in Charlotte and I have an interview scheduled for another one.

1. One sad 9×12 rug.
2. One pack of cigarettes from when I quit smoking in 1990.
3. One box of brittle yellow paperback books.
4. Four t-shirts.
5. One box of VHS tapes that were recorded off the television.
6. A box of obsolete files.
7. One tent that leaks.
8. One broken camping chair.
9. One plastic electric fan.
10. One ugly crockery pot.

check.
on track for week five.

1. Miscellaneous mismatched sheets.
2. Box of records from former business concern. (Shredded, it took forever!)
3. Four ratty cardboard boxes with various bits of junk.
4. One boyhood’s worth of sports statuettes.
5. One deluxe bubble set.
6. Half of the contents of my bathroom drawer.
7. One desk organizer ensemble.
8. One laptop breifcase bag that must weigh 12lbs. empty!
9. One insulated zip-around lunch box.
10. One plastic bag of home recorded cassette tapes.

1. One pink bathrobe.
2. Two circa 1984 Quaker Oats collectible tins.
3. Four shirts that belong to D and don’t fit.
4. One favorite pink shirt that’s irrevocably stained.
5. Two shirts that never really fit correctly and one that is too tired to wear anymore.
6. Four packages of Trim-a- Home replacement bulbs for lights we no longer have.
7. One address book from 1982.
8. One Boy Scout uniform.
9. One handmade potholder shaped like a chicken.
10. One mom and baby statuette.

1. One box of my dead brother’s correspondence.
2. One snare drum; rims, heads, and hardware removed.
3. Three old drumheads and 4 pairs of old sticks.
4. Two really substandard, sand-filled 22lb barbells.
5. Four ball caps.
6. One Pictionary game I don’t think anyone ever played.
7. Mom’s 60’s era Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook. (It’s hard to say goodbye to this one.)
8. Three old handbags.
9. Two plastic expanding file organizers.
10. One Handy Andy Woodshop Toymaker kit from when B was a baby. ( The moment passed.)