Saturday, October 25, 2008

New Job!

Whoopee! no more holidays, nights or weekends! I can work from home after a year! I actually get bathroom breaks and I get to sit undisturbed for an entire half hour for my lunch! I guess you have to be a nurse to really understand the impact of why I am so excited about these things, but every other newly hired nurse on my team is also in awe. We are pinching ourselves to see if we are dreaming. I am a nurse consultant with Aetna, and I will be working in disease management. I will have my own patients, and I will call them every month or so to check on them.
Now that I actually have more free time at home, I am playing with crafts and making Christmas presents. It is just too much fun. Overload! I hit WalMart's fabric and craft section and Michael's yesterday. Today I'm heading to Robert's Crafts. I'm setting up my easy chair with all my crafty projects surrounding me and getting ready for a winter of fun. Hand knit hat, anyone?

Friday, October 10, 2008

cat-face spiders





























I have a cat-face spider in my garden. Charlie (the Bonnie Prince of Scotland) and I found her a few weeks ago. She has spun her perfectly symmetrical web on my pot of basil (thank you, Laurel for the pot). While 4-wheeling in North Willow Canyon, west of Grantsville the other day, I found her cousin on a rock in the middle of a brooklet. I am not like Ron Weasley - I like spiders. I prefer them to nasty, irritating flying insects. (though I will kill a black widow or a brown recluse if I find her near my house.) I didn't have my camera at the ready, but when I was painting my steps I found a 3 inch long gray wolf spider. She had pretty brown stripes on her furry back. I shooed her into the grass. I especially like jumping spiders. They are welcome in my kitchen window's potted garden anytime.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

The road less traveled by...





The Road Not Taken


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood


And sorry I could not travel both


And be one traveller, long I stood


And looked down one as far as I could


To where it bent in the undergrowth;



Then took the other, as just as fair,


And having perhaps the better claim


Because it was grassy and wanted wear;


Though as for that, the passing there


Had worn them really about the same,



And both that morning equally lay


In leaves no feet had trodden black.


Oh, I kept the first for another day!


Yet knowing how way leads on to way,


I doubted if I should ever come back.



I shall be telling this with a sigh


Somewhere ages and ages hence:


Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --


I took the one less travelled by,


And that has made all the difference.




Robert Frost