I'm Baaack!

It has been a really long time since I've taken the time to blog.  I'm really sorry.  In September, I had the mistaken impression that I could add going to college to my everyday life without having to give anything up.  I'm too old for that.  I only took two classes each semester, but I learned really quick that it takes a lot of time!  I dipped my toe in the water, and decided not to swim through classes this summer.  It's a real good thing I decided that, too.  Our lives have been turned upside down, and I may not even be living here by the end of the Summer Semester. 
April 1, my husband Gene, was invited to retire or be fired with no warning.  Two days later we were gone on a vacation that we had been planning for the last year.  I'll blog a little bit about that trip later, but for now let's just say that even though we never would have taken that trip had we known that Gene would be returning home to unemployment, it was both a very relaxing and fun trip, and we're glad we went.  (These earrings to the right are a clue to where we went.  The earrings below are a clue to what he did his first day of officially not being employed.)
I had fully expected to come home from vacation and devote my full attention to building up my business.  After considering my prospects for income vs. Gene's prospects for income if he got a new job, I decided to spend my energy focusing on helping him decide what we want to do and where we might go.  Gene has been a Database administrator, and has worked with Unisys Mainframes for 30.  He specialized in the Cobol programming language.  Knowledge of this language is a dying art, and he probably was the last of his kind here in Las Vegas.  There are however many companies and Government entities that still use it, so we have begun a worldwide search for a new job.  As of two weeks ago, he hadn't even written his resume, and some time over a week ago, he lost track of how many places he had shared his Resume.  Yay, Gene!  I asked if he could at least keep track of the general locations that we could possibly be moving, to, and he wrote me out a list of a handful of places.  I'm really happy that what I've chosen to do will be portable.




Now that you know the back story of where I've been all this time, let's move forward.  When I thought I'd have loads of time this month I set myself a goal (and I made the mistake of sharing that goal with others) that I would fill my Etsy store with 100 items for sale by the end of the month.  Since today is the last day of May I'm ready to admit that I will not reach that goal, but if I had not set a goal, I would have done nothing.  I went from having 7 active listings to having over 50 right now.  I have others that are drafts that are nearly ready to post, and dozens that need to be photographed.  So I am going to renew that goal of 100 listings on Etsy, and give myself one more week to accomplish that goal.  My next blog posting should be announcing that I have 100 items for sale in my little Etsy store!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/235329292/empire-state-building-earrings-i-love

https://www.etsy.com/listing/235312060/gone-fishin-earrings-fun-full-moon