I have this urge to crawl back into bed and pull the covers up today. I just got email from the son of my former piano professor and dear friend. She died last night, just shy of her 94th birhday.
I'm sorry, Elin. I hope the sun decides to peek out for you today!
I don't know if you all remember when Kathrin was interviewing for her job that she was "encouraged" to ask questions of the CEO and CFO of the company. One of the questions she posed was, "In a recession how can a diamond company continue to hire?" The response to that question was that generally their clientele is not affected by the small downturns in the economy. Well, this is no small downturn and their clientele (major bankers, wall street financiers, etct.) are not shopping for diamonds. Tiffany & Co. is hurting and so is the company Kathrin joined in March.
Today, along with some of the sales staff and one of the graphics designers they let her go.She is taking it much better than I am, that is for sure.
I am sorry Elin. Sending lots of good luck for her job hunting.
Elin sorry to hear about your daughters job & sorry about the loss of your friend
The wreck was cleared and traffic was moving, albeit extremely slow. It was better than I feared, though.
Don't get me started on this. I have been monitoring the situation closely because it will affect my kids' school. I think the whole idea of closing schools is ridulous. They are planning to put the amt. of kids of 3 schools into 2 schools, because the 3 aren't at capacity, so then the 2 schools would be at capacity. NO ROOM FOR GROWTH. Crowded classrooms. Longer bus rides. If they would redistrict fairly to divide all schools equally they would minimize the problem. But you have LOUD parents who do not want their kids redistricted, and they are the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. I am waiting on pins and needles for the result of the vote.2. Our county school system is seriously looking at closing up to five elementary schools and middle schools here to try to balance their budget, which is in the red. The students would be moved to other schools which are not full. I tend to think there would not be room for all the teachers and support staff that would be left behind. The school board vote is to take place on October 28.
I was going to ask if you saw the article in the paper today.You all know how Tammi and I go on and on about the local downtown wine bar that has undergone so much renovation. Well, here is a link to an article about the work of the owners and what is going on. I think it is fascinating and hope some of you will enjoy reading and looking at the pictures. Tomorrow night Tammi and I get to enjoy it in person!
kybecca wine bar & shop
Just be sure to save some Picpoul for me!Tammi - with everything going on around here, I may walk up to kybecca tonight and find us a table for tomorrow.
You might want to check to see if I am still there tomorrow night!
Very sad.
Nope. It's dry and the sun is peaking out!
