I haven’t written since last Wednesday, largely because a lot of things have been going on. On Monday last week, my in-laws flew in from Texas to visit for a few days, so we were out doing things like errands and working on the house as well as heading to the Strip or eating dinner with them in the evenings. We finally got actual Internet and our cable installed on Thursday, so now I’m able to write from my desktop computer at last. This also meant that I got to finally start a project I’ve been meaning to work on for a while, which was updating and revamping my father-in-law’s saddle shop website. I had redone this about a year or two ago, but it was really looking horrible to me and plus I wanted to convert it to WordPress to make updating and structuring a lot more streamlined, so I took it apart and, in my opinion, improved on it. LOL. I also had to move the whole thing over to my own server because the Yahoo! webhosting installation of WordPress was extremely unreliable, the MySQL databases frequently going down and a bunch of other silly things. In any case, I should be finished with the website tomorrow, just 5 pages left to switch over.

My other project lately is setting up an online book club with some friends. It started out as just a two person thing, and then it grew a bit so now we have 10 girls and trying to come up with a name. We’ll also be voting for book selections. I’m excited about it, but this may be 40% my own voracious appetite for reading, 40% bizarre love for organizing things, and only 10% desire to actually discuss stuff. Hahaha. It is nice to have a group to talk about reading with, though. I hope it gets off the ground and ends up working out for all of us.

By the way, on Saturday we drove 5 hours to San Diego so we could pick up the dog from my parents’ house. Such a long drive, back and forth, but nice to see my family and of course nice to have Bubba back in the apartment… galloping around, doing backflips, et al etc. Our downstairs neighbors must be livid. He isn’t usually hyper all the time, but I think he’s still adjusting to YET ANOTHER new place to live and he happens to be naturally high strung since he’s a terrier breed. Ah well. I’m sure he’ll be okay! He’s already begun his personal mission of peeing on every single bush/tree/rock in the apartment complex… LOL.

In other news, my husband has to go back to work tomorrow :( I’ve really enjoyed having him here at home with me, so this is not a fun prospect. Not that I have issues with being home alone, I just like having him around! Surprise! Haha. I’ve been applying for jobs, on average about one job app per day, and right now I’m really hoping to get a call for a job with the State of Nevada when the posting closes on the 8th. Fingers are crossed. It would be really nice because it’s M-F (most likely, anyway) and when you work for the State you will get the day off for holidays. Believe me, once you’ve worked M-F from 8am-5pm, it’s REALLY hard to switch back to working on the weekend! Or working odd retail hours. So, I’m waiting for word on that one. If it’s meant to be, it will be, is what my mom would say.

Upcoming entries: reviews of The House At Riverton by Kate Morton and The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian, as well as entries about daily deal websites (I’ve gotten into these lately… run for cover, wallet!) and our forays into Titanic: The Exhibition at The Luxor last Tuesday!