I have been home for a month already…whew!!!
I arrived home to a new car. Mickey had already kind of spilled the beans when she asked me during a FaceTime how I liked my new car. It’s a 2022 Hyundai Ionic 5 all-electric car. I am so amazed. The technology is as beautiful as the car. Mine is teal.
Wow! I LOVE technology. Just now, inserting the above image was so fast using AI. Let’s see how this next step goes. I want to write that my favorite feature of this car is called the headsup display.
Mmm…. not quite. It didn’t even spell Ionic correctly (and yes, I did enter it correctly). Let’s try again…
Close, but no cigar. I’ll give you one more chance.
Ha! Back to step one, I guess.
The second one would be the closest. You get the idea: posted speed, your speed, blind spot, GPS. It is amazing. I have never loved a car so much. There are lots of features I have yet to research.
Most of my time has been spent completing the Dreaming in Script Course. I completed penning my Certificate of Merit and sent it off to David in Portland:
I’ve also been making a few gifts. This one was for Stephanie’s birthday. I have an interesting experience each time I give a gift I have made. In the end, I love making it, but I always feel like I want to do it over because the next iteration is always just a bit better.
It’s the same feeling I had while writing my Certificate of Merit, but one which we, as students, are forced to move through, because there are no do-overs. We are given one sheet of paper only. We are reminded that it is simply a reflection of a point in time, knowing that we will be constantly improving and to let go of the “P.” This class has been a wonderful experience. It was a delight to my spirit.
I’ll post the certificate once it’s signed. Not sure what I’m going to do with it. I enjoyed receving this from Stephanie this morning.
So, also finishing up Cordelia and Marie’s sweaters. I just ordered glow-in-the-dark yarn and bookmarked a video on how to cover buttons with yarn. This should be fun.
When the girls were here recently, Marie remarked that I didn’t have very many toys at my house. I said, “Yes, I know. Sorry, but I don’t have any kids.”
“Yes you do!,” she responded, “Us — get some!” I think I’m going to take a look on Facebook Marketplace for a bike, scooter, or something like that. I’d like to find one of those ball-and-string contraptions that you hook on one ankle and spin it in circles, jumping over with the other foot.
Yes, this. Looks like it would fall apart in no time. I’ll have to check out the reviews. 🙂
A three-person crew came yesterday morning at 8:30 and worked until 5:30 to clean up our landscape. I am no happy. That would have taken us weeks to get done. And my back feels great! The daffodils are happy, and I think I may have seen a tulip coming up. I thought the bulbs were all eaten because I didn’t see tulips last year. I’ve heard that they just don’t want to come up sometimes. I get it.
Now I want to look into some border work. Dan and Kathy are having this done.
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The book is chugging along. One of the first things on my list when I returned home was to complete the second proofread. You might remember me writing that the first proof was edited using a British style guide. They said they would redo it according to the Chicago Manual of Style. They did that, but then they sent me a PDF showing no commentary on what, if anything they changed. They attached a form called Amendments where I had to list anything I wanted added or changed.
I had to do a line-by-line comparison to my original draft. It was exhausting. I felt like I was back in school again. What a challenge. It seemed so outrageous to me at times that I thought I must be on Candid Camera. Someone, somewhere was just waiting for me to blow my top. I didn’t. I finished it and sent back the Amendments with a note:
Hello Macauley Proofreader,
These are the amendments thus far. I say thus far because, although I have gone over the entire PDF you sent me, I’m nervous that there may still be text missing. I am concerned about the number of editing inconsistences as well as the deletion of large amounts of text. I feel that I might need to sit down with another person and check the manuscript line by line. I don’t really feel like doing that right now. So, I would like your assurance that all of the text from the original document is included in the final draft.
I sent that on April 20th and haven’t heard back. I sent a followup email this morning. We’ll see.
We went to Kaukauna recently for Sunday chicken dinner at VanAbel’s with my Aunt Bonnie, Uncle Jim and some of my cousins. It was also nice that my niece, Toni Lynn, came along as well. It’s nice that the younger generation is now happy to hang out with the family. Always a good time. Bonnie and Jim are doing well.
And with that I will close. I’m going to try to write on Sundays.