Oz Girl Update and an Owl in the Barn!

The job search is going rather well. I've applied to two county jobs; both seem promising, and one in the DA's office in Wichita sounds really interesting. I realize that quite possibly hundreds of people are applying for these positions, but I'm hoping my qualifications will put me on the interview list. Let me tell you, searching for jobs online everyday takes oodles of time, as does creating new cover letters and tweaking the ole resume every time I apply to a new job. I'm winded and I haven't even gotten up out of my computer chair! :-)

Hubby made it home from Seattle on Friday. The grass was clamoring for attention; he replaced the belt on his riding mower, and hopped to it. The yard looks lovely now!

Saturday afternoon and evening were full of thunderstorms with heavy rain and high winds. The weather radio woke us up all Saturday night, sometimes 10 minutes apart, with new thunderstorm/tornado/flash flood warnings. Often we would get up and look out the windows, just to make sure there were no serious threats, before we would very tiredly crawl back in bed. It was a long night with little sleep.

Today we travelled to Wichita - Tom to fill out paperwork at Spirit for his broken crown (long story there) and me to shop for some new dress shoes for job interviews. I found a great lil pair of BCBgirls black button pumps at Dillards, normally $89 marked down to $58.80 AND in my size... 5-1/2!! Let me tell you, it is very hard to find big-girl shoes when your feet are still little-girl size!

And finally, our big excitement for the day... a barn owl in our shop/barn, entangled with fly tape. We caught him without much incident and got almost all the fly tape off, and he flew to freedom just a little while ago.

The fly paper wrapped from his front side to the
underside of his left wing and tail feathers.

I think this was one very happy owl when he flew away! :-)

Where Did Oz Girl Disappear To??

I've meant to put up a new post all this week... I apologize I just haven't had the time. Life is getting in the way of my blog, imagine that!!

Hubby gets home from Seattle on Friday; he's been gone all month. So needless to say, there are lots of last minute things I am trying to get done around the house. First and foremost, I'm trying to finish the remaining kitchen cabinets. I have half of the upper ones disassembled, priming and repainting. I want to finish them and get the cabinet doors back onto the framework before hubby gets home! I need to color my hair, there's some serious root growth going on - ugh. And there's a myriad of other things that need done.

Also, my job search has become a hot priority, and with this economy, it's no easy task. I've applied to several Sedgwick County (Wichita) positions and had to head into Wichita for testing this morning. I am crossing my fingers and hoping, hoping, hoping.... I am running out of my savings and I'm starting to lose sleep over what could happen. Chrysler Financial doesn't take kindly to missed payments, and I've never missed a payment on ANYTHING in my entire life. I really don't want to start now!!!

I hope that life will settle down just a tad by next week, and I can get back into some semblance of my routine, and visit everyone else's blog to see what is going on in your lives!

My Blog Design

Yep, I'm one of THOSE. Can't stop fiddling with my blog design. So does that mean I'm indecisive, or does it mean I relish change? Is it a negative or a positive?

Heck if I know, but I will say that I'm having a blog designer create a fresh, unique design for me. I'm on the waiting list, so it will be a month or so before my fresh, new and fun design is up for everyone to see.

So until then, I may just keep fiddling with the design, you know, just because I LIKE CHANGE!