Getting My Act Together

First - let's just get this out of the way . . . yes, I voted, and by absentee ballot. I just don't trust the electrical voting machines. If the British can run an election with just paper ballots, why can't we? And, I'm tired of the Democrat party taking black people's vote for granted - they shouldn't expect me to use my vote for them all the time. Enough of the political rant here.

While checking up on a list of cheat sheets, I came across this Gmail Shortcut Cheatsheet. It's simply a reformatted version of the one that you see in your Gmail account if you go through the Settings portion. What a lifesaver. I have two gmail accounts that I use regularly, and I'm getting tired of using the mouse to navigate these accounts. It took me a while to figure out the key shortcuts, but it is very intuitive and should make it a lot more efficent. Especially as I have a good amount of email that I need to delete . . .

Last Saturday Hubby took me to Stitches so i could mingle with all those "crazy" women [in Hubby's words] and drool over the yarns and such. I have to thank him for being very patient - I know it was boring for him, and so I'll have to remember to do the same if we get to go to one of those tool shows. It will help to have a WIP, probably a pair of socks, along with me then.

It was really overwhelming with all those skeins of colorful yarns and piles of books. Especially since I didn't have a lot of money to play with. I was able to score a skein of yarn from Blue Moon, some Harrisville shetland yarn that was on sale, a pattern, and that new Victorian Lace book. Oh, yes, one of those Euro Steam iron that will come in handy for my sewing projects.

Referring to the title of this post, yeah, I guess you can tell that I'm really tired of not having work or being able to get a firm job offer. So, I'm going to see if I can get some freelance work. That means overhauling the design of my Lolajl.Net domain - if you go to the main page it still has that stale pre-Internet look when I learned HTML (I cringe when I look at the source code). I've found a couple of websites where you can put out freelance work bids and such. Wish me luck there . . . Of course, I'm still going to be looking for a full-time position.

As for knitting - not done much lately the past few days. Did work on the sleeve for the pullover. And I worked on my sewing on Sunday. I had a bit of a struggle with it because I forgot to latch the bobbin thread over that notch before putting it back in, and I kept putting the spol on backwards. I did get the pockets sewn on, and one handle partly sewn on. I think I'll get back to it later today.