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First, happy anniversary! second, good luck - my toes are crossed as I can't type with my fingers crossed.

Cheryl

Happy Anniversary Ellice and good luck with the interview.

My mother would have said if you want to keep out of trouble, to heck with your toes, just keep your legs crossed.

Lucille

Thanks, and I think your mom, my grandmothers had the same saying! Must've been some Brooklyn thing.

Anyhow - on the job topic - I'm waiting to hear from the couple of places that I had the 2nd interviews with last week - and wondering if any of my references have been checked. The 2nd one (which is being one of the director/patient care coordinator) for a free clinic told me that they have a couple of more candidates to interview - but I have a good feeling about that. The other job - more patient care hands on, a bit closer to home - would be really awesome - in an integrated medical practice - doing patient care and supervising a nursing group . The practice is really interesting - incorporates a lot of traditional medicine, including many NPs, but also a Naturepath, homeopathic medicine, a few acupuncturists, a spa, nutritionists, fitness professionals (yoga, pilates, etc). So, I'm really hoping that will come through. But, who the heck knows.

Today was a serious job fair - Engineering, science pavilion, and also a separate healthcare/medical one. At a Ritz-Carlton. So, I gave out a bunch of resumes (I have 2 different ones now), and had some very good interest, and a few really promising short interviews - a couple on the med side, and

Ellice

Victoria,

I don't think you would like Seattle, it's a beautiful area, but lots of rain and cool weather. My son works for Microsoft, and loves it, but he's used to the weather in British Columbia, Canada where we live, and the weather is pretty much identical.

But, if you can handle the weather everything else is incredible. The scenery, the city, and working for Microsoft is terrific!

take care, Linda D. in B.C., Canada

Even more than the rain and cool weather is the gray skies! I lived in Seattle/Olympia for six years; we came back to the Midwest for a variety of reasons, but the constantly gray skies for nine months a year was a big factor.

Linda

It's just as bad having sunny days with no end in sight. It's sunny at night here! We crave gray days. The last few early summers here have been very wet and gray and we loved it.

"Jangchub" wrote

Here on the prairie we have been having dramatic days. Suddenly it gets almost black, rain pounds down, thunder, lightning---and then 30 minutes later the sun comes out, dazzling blue sky, as if nothing had happened, and if the sidewalk wasn't wet, you would think you imagined the storm. So far (fingers crossed, no hail storms, or twister touchdowns---but there have certainly been enough warnings). We never get soft wet days in the summer--they happen in spring a bit, and then a few times in the fall, but the sky is usually relentlessly blue unless some kind of storm is blowing.

Dawne

Hurricane Crystobal, now a tropical storm passed south of NS today. Lots of rain, forests that a week ago had a high forest fire index are now low again. Lots of flooding and washing out of roads, messy. For about four days now the skies have been so dark one needs a light on during the day. Hate that.

Oh for that wonderful Saskatchewan sky, where it goes forever with lovely white clouds scattered across it with a road ahead that narrows to a point at the horizon lol

Where do you live, Dawne? I remember the days up on Long Island where it would rain gently for days. Down in TX it rains all at once!

Sheena; waxing poetic~! The sky if falling, the sky is falling!

"lucretia borgia" wrote >

Oh for that wonderful Saskatchewan sky, where it goes forever with

Indeed---I think there is no excuse for anyone who lives here not to be able to do a basic perspective drawing.

Dawne

"Jangchub" wrote >

I live in Regina, in the south central part of Saskatchewan--north of Montana! And we had a huge 20 minute rainburst with "grape sized" hailstones at suppertime, with more to come tonight.

Dawne

That sounds exactly like our almost daily Florida weather, but I'm sure you're part of the world is much prettier and I hope it cools off the air a bit.

I was caught in another wild thunderstorm complete with a lightening show yesterday that lasted just as long as it took for me to drive to my house. Then it goes away, the sun shines, and the temps go back up to sizzling.

Lucille

If Saskatchewan had a coastline, I would definitely live there. Seeing those skies is believing, plus the huge, rolling fields of flax and canola, it is poetic. Dawne lives in Saskatchewan, I met her when I drove across, nearly three years ago now.

We were thinking about that storm. Last night, at about 1 am - storm hitting here got really distinctly loud. We had lightning/thunder for a couple of hours - very interesting watching the light flash through the windows up high over the bed (blinds aren't on those yet). But, the rain got so loud it was horizontal - and really crashing into the windows. Suddenly about 3 a.m. DH actually woke up (I was of course mostly awake with my restlessness, Puckster actually pretty peaceful on foot of bed) as the ALARM went off. (yes, we have an alarm - no it's not pretentious, but new house, lots of big windows, doors, etc). Went the heck - one of the control pads is in our bedroom - and it says "Basement Door" - so he grabs robe and goes running down all the stairs. Puckster the brave - rambles out to the loft/gallery off the MBR and just stands there (I guess he didn't want to run down in the dark). I grab the phone, and wait - sure enough the alarm people call, and eventually we decide that somehow the sensor on the door jamb must've gotten surprised with the wind blowing. The doors downstairs are French, and the basement ones seem less sturdy than the main level - so who knows. Storm stopped eventually.

It is nice out there! I always miss that low horizon feel like you're in the sky of being in ABQ or Santa Fe.

Ellice

The wonders of tropical weather. We would always be amazed when it would rain on one house, but not the one next door, or opposite sides of the street. I think my entire time taking the bus to junior high and high school, the timing - especially for 1 particular year - was such that during monsoon season I'd get off the bus, and within 10 secs be running, barefoot, through a massive tropical downpour - trying to keep my books protected. Would get home - step inside - and get handed a large pool towel and told - "drop em" - as in strip down there cause I was so soaked DM felt no sense in dripping through the house. It was just a couple of blocks, but enough distance to tatally soak my clothes and me!

Ellice

Where I went to college, something fell from the sky (either wet or white) pretty much on a daily basis. We all learned to carry a towel and change of clothes in a plastic bag. Sprint cross-campus, hang wet jeans over stall in ladies room, after class, put wet jeans back on, dry jeans back in plastic bag, sprint to next class, hang wet jeans over stall in ladies room....

And on a fairly regular basis, would get so soaked that it was pointless, so you'd just open the back door to the house and yell up the stairwell "toss me my shampoo, wouldja?" and do a true rainwater rinse. :)

It stormed here several times yesterday. Poor DH had to go stand out in as one of the (many, many) alarms sounded, requiring a full building evacuation, no chance to even grab a coat or umbrella.

Cheryl

Have you ever considered writing a book?

Elizabeth