Catch up

I have been working for the last five weeks at Honda. The atmosphere is great, very friendly people and lots of men to look at on my floor (I work in the Motorcycle Division, in the Press Department). A good habit that I have started since I am working at Honda is that I try to walk every morning before work. This seems to help my general mood and my energy level and make it easier to make it through the day when there is not enough work to do. One of the projects my department is working on is a loan system in Access. I am a multi-faceted individual and I have to confess that I am a bit of a computer nerd. I love working with computer systems and trying out new things. Yesterday I was planning to "play" with the system all day. Everyone in the office was gone yesterday but me. Boy did I have a surprise when I got to work!

I was busier yesterday than any other day I have been there! Lots of little things I had been working on got completed, the phone was busier, and my boss called with a task for me to do. But I got rid of the big box in the cubicle next to me (stuff to return to the vendor), I finally reached the right person to be able to get a smaller size shirt for my boss (this one I've been
working on for about a week), I made some preliminary notes about the loan system, and I was exhausted by the end of the day!

Other things that I have been doing lately include lots of knitting. I made a cotton dishcloth that didn't come out quite right. I will try the pattern again sometime in the near future. It is an interesting pattern as it decreases and increases in the same row. It came out to be a rectangle and it should be square. I was in too much of a hurry to finish it so it also is wider at one end than the other. (After I took this picture, I used the dishcloth to wipe off my washing machine).

I have also been doing some crocheting. I made this granny square afghan for a friend, Chin, whose daughter is expecting a little girl in May. I also gave her the knitted pink hat shown here. The green hat I gave to Stitches from the Heart. Several of the ladies in my knitting guild work at the yarn store of Stitches from the Heart, so I gave the hat to Brandi at my last guild meeting.

My choir is working on an Easter Cantata that we will be singing on Psalm Sunday (in three days!) It is an original work written by our choir director, Ken Potter, on a cruise to Mexico in five short days. It is a wonderful work and I pray that the church will be packed - standing room only - on Sunday. We had our final rehearsal last night and we are pretty close. The accompaniment is all on CD and some of the songs are pretty fast! But the joy on his face tells us we are donig a great job - he is so proud! The choir is very proud and honored to be doing the first performance of this great work!

That is enough for this morning, I will write again on Sunday after the Cantata and tell about how it went, how packed the church was etc. Happy Friday!