I have been somewhat depressed with a lot of my family here. I keep dreading them asking me questions about how my job search is going and if they can have a resume. I don't know why I feel them knowing more would ruin their image of me. I think it is actually doing the exact opposite. They all think I am lazy and don't want a job, which is somewhat true. Of course lazy is a subjective term and really is a person judgment of someone else.

I did go to the kite store (Klig's Kites) to get the standoff I lost. They were great and actually replaced both standoffs with ones that attach with a screw so that I won't lose them. I got my first stunt kite from Klig's almost 30 years ago and going back and getting such great service made me feel good. My local kite store closed many years ago so I was very happy to get it fixed. I even got to go out and fly it for over an hour on the beach. It is a dual line stunt kite and I did a better job with it than I have ever done before. The wind was somewhat light, but steady once I got above the condos. I only crashed once in the beginning and it was a very gentle crash. I had a really good time and am sorry that I haven't flown any of my kites in a while. I really missed my Revolution II quad line that I bought about 20 years ago in Lubbock, Texas. I flew a lot in Lubbock since there was a lot of wind, but it was always a pretty strong wind which taught me a lot of bad habits. The gentle wind was so nice, like butta.

My sister made dinner last night in her condo. It was really good. She made a couple of types of pasta--and I really like pasta. One of them had broccoli in it and I really like broccoli as an adult. I hated it as a kid, but I guess tastes change. She also made a cream tomato sauce by taking a jar of spaghetti sauce and adding some cream to it. I need figure out exactly how she did it because it was really good.

Most of the time I have been embroidering on scarves and reusable shopping bags. I decided to create scarves for some friends and their kids for Christmas. I am not sure if I have mentioned how cool the sewing machine is, but it is super sweet. Her machine is like 10 years old, but it still does a great job. The scarves came out good and I added a few embellishments to the kids scarves. The new thing for this year was the shopping bags. My sister had bought some 99 cent shopping bags from T J Maxx and embroidered an initial on them for Mom, mys sisters and my nieces who were there. They look really cool, so we picked up a few more bags at Bed, Bath and Beyond to do for some of my friends. My sister is now in love with the Curlz MT font. It is a cool font and I used it on my bags and some of the scarves.

I should be working on my resume stuff. I missed the class on Monday because of the connection at the resort. It kept going up and down and I couldn't get dialed out. I am over my cell phone minutes by over an hour and I can't really afford the overage so I didn't dial in using it. I am disappointed, but also relieved since I am behind on all the work I need to do. Hopefully, I will get it done when I get back home, but that doesn't seem to be how I work.