So much for "I hope to find time to blog during the busy school schedule." Summer school has been over for two weeks and the fall semester will begin for Cuesta in about a week and a half. My textbooks, turquoise five-subject notebook, and I are all set to begin!
I made myself a small to-do list a while ago for the short vacation between semesters including "Update Blog." However, I wanted this update to include pictures of my recently redecorated room. With Elizabeth's help I have gone from the Fanciful Fairy theme I've had for nearly ten years to Audrey Hepburn inspired Paris Chic. Because, as Audrey says, "Paris is always a good idea." Maybe within the next week I will track down a camera and take some photos of my new bedroom/school room.
In a way I am going to miss the school room setting this fall, and I've already been missing the face-to-face interaction with a teacher when I have a question. Asking questions in class is easier than typing messages back and forth with hundreds of miles between us. But there is a tremendous amount of freedom in knowing that I don't have to be in a classroom at a specific time. It's almost like being home-schooled again.
Well, tomorrow is Friday, the day I go to the library for book processing so I should get to sleep. Good night, whoever is reading this.
Hello again, my friends. Has it really been eleven months since we last met? Nearly a whole year. So much has happened I feel like I should re-introduce myself.
My name is Lydia, obviously, I am twenty years old and someday I want to be a library technician. This dream came to me nearly a year ago when I began volunteering at the Madeline Helling Library in Nevada City. I began as a shelver in the children's section of the library and quickly became adept at putting each picture book and novel exactly where it needed to be, sorting the series so they were in the correct order, and even giving book recommendations to some of the young readers.
Over last Christmas break, I moved to a new department of the library: the book processing. In processing my job is to take the new books, the ones still unread by library patrons, and stamp them with the date and name "Nevada County Library." I also place stickers on the binding if they belong in a certain category. For example, the biographies get a sticker on the binding that says "Biography" in bold, red letters.
And that is where I've been ever since. It must have been about five months ago when I decided that I wanted to work in a library. So I asked my library mentor, Cindy, what qualifications are required to work in a public library, and she helped me find Cuesta College which teaches the library information technology program that I need to pursue my dream career. In a mere two days time Cuesta's summer semester shall commence and I will be attending it online. I am hoping to have my certificate in library information technology within one year, and then it's on to the library!
Care to see the place that started it all, aside from my own book-filled home that is?
A few weeks ago we were cleaning out and preparing our motor-home to sell. (After ten or so years, we decided camping, even in a luxurious RV, just wasn't for us.) Everyone has been looking forward to having it out of our care, unfortunately however that meant it had be parked out in the driveway right where Tiki Cove was supposed to be.
So one day Mom and Elizabeth were out walking in the garden when they heard two distinct "thuds" coming from the motor-home. They went over and found two hummingbirds lying on the ground beside it. The larger one had been chasing the little one, a tiny hatchling with speckles still on his chest, and they had crashed into the motor-home! The larger one, though stunned, managed to fly into a tree while he recuperated. The little one was too stunned to move. My poor Mom thought he had died. But he was okay. Elizabeth picked up the little guy in her hand and carried him the back deck where she fed him sugar water.
And we named him Pip.
See the little dots on his chest? He's just a baby. So cute!
Pip seemed in no hurry to leave.
But he eventually flew into a tree and rested a bit before taking off for good. I think I saw him again a few days later.
Elizabeth has perfected pink frosting that's not too runny. So, our cupcakes can have beautiful swirls and flowers. My favorites are the ones third from the top. They are like a bouquet of sweet little wild flowers.
Copper pans make very good wall decorations, (and they are easy to access.)
"I was just giving myself some good advice."
--Alice in Disney's Alice in Wonderland
A cook's play room and a baker's delight!
P.S. Happy Star Wars Day, May the Fourth be with you.
