HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
I thought it might be time to update the old blog so everyone has something to read about! It has been a little while since I last posted so I will try to bring you all up to date. 
Over the past year, I moved downstairs to a different apartment more to my liking. One of daughters and her boyfriend that had lived there had a baby last spring and moved out to a bigger place so I took it over in October. The designer in me went to work and over the past few months in between work and the holidays, I now have finished painting every room in the place.. a nice mixture of greens, blues and chocolate brown. My dad even came out and helped install too shelves for me for some extra storage…
Dad putting up shelves
finished shelves
Along with the apartment projects, I started to play soccer again in the fall and love it!! I am now playing on an over-30 women’s league & a coed league. I still can’t believe that I am old enough to be on the over-30′s league but it feels good to be back on the field and see some old friends and make new ones. I also took a few classes at WCTC this past fall.. a lean manufacturing class for work and two framing and matting classes. I got to know a good group of ladies and hope to take another framing class with them in March. I am in the process of starting up my own side business “DAISYON Design Center” which focuses mainly on photography and framing. I have always talked about my own design business but didn’t quite know which direction to go until I took these classes. I fell in love with it and can’t wait to get my own equipment and to get back for some more experience! It will be a slow process as I work on it in my free time but it thrills me and I have an abundance of design ideas to play with. Sooooo… if you have anything that needs to get framed… let me know!
Other than that, I am still working at Dedicated Computing in Waukesha and fortunately have FINALLY been moved from my old assignment on the manufacturing floor to Design Engineering where I have been working as a Solidworks (3-D modeling) Support Engineer for the past week or two. It is temporary at this point but looks promising to turn into something permanent in the future. Keep your fingers crossed for me!!
In other news, if you haven’t heard… I won the Harmelink Family Cribbage tournament this year. I lost to Uncle Darryl last year in the championship round but this year I finally won it. I have to get my name engraved on the trophy yet but it being proudly displayed atop my bookshelf!
With the Cribbage trophy after the big WIN
me and Grandma H at the Christmas party
As you can tell by the pics, I am also in the process of growing my hair out again. It was fun to have in short for the past couple years but decided to grow it out for a while and it would be nice to be able to pull it back in a ponytail or clip once again. Other that that… geeez… so many things… I sold Christmas trees on a lot down in Chicago for a weekend in December, saw the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, had lot of adventures with family & friends, had pneumonia & sinusitis for while last September, had the tire blow out on my car, have gone out dancing & ice skating, learned how to correctly use a stud finder, went to visit cousins in Madison, went to a Packer game, spent yet another Fourth of July, Thanksgiving & Christmas with my family (which I missed when I was in CO), dated a few crazy men that made me see the pleasures of being single, and have just been just keeping myself busy! As a New Year’s resolution, I am trying to keep up with my blogs… at least once a month to keep everyone updated. We’ll see how it goes….
