February 25, 2014
2:49 p.m.

It's snowing!

Well, it's trying to snow, anyway. Little flakes are fluttering; the sky is slate-grey and it's dark. Ugh. I know it's still winter, but I'm over it. Ready for spring!

Last week I took a test as step one of a job interview process. Tomorrow I have a phone interview with them as step two. I'm afraid to get my hopes up, but you know how it is: our hopes rise even when we tell them not to! I was told that my test score was very good, so that's a good sign.

Hum dee dum, it all makes me so nervous.

I'm afraid to mention any company names, but I will say this: when I decided I wanted to go into Medical Coding, this is the company I had in mind. It's a great company, a great place to work, and I'd be proud and happy to be there.

No wonder I'm nervous and my hopes are up!

For now, I will close the subject.

Today, I'm thinking about family history. I really admire people who are willing and able to devote themselves to the research involved in tracing their histories. My father's sister, my Aunt Bea, spent a great deal of time doing the Shablo family history in the United States. I read her book while visiting my parents in December, and added my own chapter recently. I was very gratified when she told me that she didn't have to do any editing to my writing!

Our family is planning a reunion in August in Trinidad, CO, and I am hoping that I'll be able to go. I love the area, and it will be nice to see everyone.

I have been blessed with a big, healthy family. My father and all his siblings are living, and my mother has lost only one of her siblings. So in my lifetime I have lost great-grandparents and grandparents, one aunt and two uncles-by-marriage. For a 50+ person, that is amazing. How blessed I am!! Thank you, God! Thank you very much!

Anyway, I have been trying to come up with a family tree design. My mother did a design on t-shirts for her side of the family several years ago, and that might be a good place to start. The family is big, my friends. Big!

I designed personalized calendars for Christmas presents (for 2014) so I have a good start on family members, but--wow. Maybe I'm crazy! But I think I'll give it a shot, anyway. A little research will not kill me! This could be fun!

In the meantime, I have some chores to do. Lucky me. So I'll write more later.

Ta ta!