Ok, admittedly that was an odd simile, but it worked for my purposes. Just a few minutes ago moments ago I was looking at my calendar and I realized that all of a sudden it was Friday and I hadn't written my post yet. Well I guess it makes sense. I ended up having to run a few errands yesterday. You know the kind, where you have to drive someone to pick up their car from the auto shop, buttheyaren'topenyeteventhoughtheyaresupposedtoopenthirtyeightminutesagosoyouhavetodrivethembackafewhourslater. You know that kind. I am, however, glad I did it yesterday and not today. The roads are pretty bad today. They are all covered in snow. So pretty. For those of you who don't know me, I love snow. I would love to live in a place where it snowed all year round. Summer is not my cup of tea, and tea is more enjoyable in the winter anyway.
I digress....
This past week has been pretty good and fairly productive.
On Saturday we had the Financial Wellness Conference. I was glad to not be the sole person in charge. In fact, all I was in charge of was two little sessions. And that I even had help with because I recruited a volunteer to help teach it. Our session was called "Back to Basics: Saving Money the Old Fashioned Way." We covered all sorts of things. Things such as: the million uses of baking soda, vinegar, how you can reuse the magnetic strip from cassette tapes (crochet them to make a bag), crocheting plastic bags to make a durable bag that is good for carrying wet things, good uses for the end bits of skeins of yarn, Christmas Ornaments, gifts, MASTER MIX, and much more. With the kids we even did a hands on project. We made keychain/zipper pulls from stuff we had left over in the 4-H supply closet, and we made felted pouches made from wool roving we had left over also from our supply closet. The main thing we wanted to get across with our project was that there are many ways to make things, and making things sometimes saves you money. The adult session was more of a discussion of different things you can do, we exchanged ideas between the attendees and the leaders. It was really great. I'm glad we had the opportunity to participate. Hopefully 4-H will be able to partner with them next year!
Monday was pretty quiet in the office. It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I guess the state office chose that for their floating holiday this year, so all the state employees were out of the office. The county was still open, so we had to be here. It was me, and the two administrative assistants. The rest of the week was alot like that since all the agents were at a conference until yesterday. I took this opportunity to get some work on using the copier to scan pictures.
That has become one of my projects. We are slowly working on cleaning out our storage cage and one of my contributions to that will be going through the old pictures from 4-H activities and turning them into digital files. This way we can keep them and take up less space in storage. If we ever need any of the pictures, we can go on the computer, send the file somewhere and pick up the print! So far I've scanned about 130 pictures. We probably have over a thousand pictures to go through. Its going to be a long arduous project. Oh well. I volunteered for it. It was my idea.
As far as my other projects go... my curriculum....well I have a skeleton outline now. So now I just have to fill in the details, and divide it into the different grade levels. I'm excited for it!
I'm also I'm getting ready for my 4-H meeting next Saturday. It will just be an informational meeting seeing if people would be interested in starting up a new club in the metro area. If they do, we will meet later in February to do enrollment forms and what-not. Especially since they have to be in by March 1st if they want to show in this years fair. So hopefully I get some people for that. If any of you are interested.....
I hope to see you there!
Until then!
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