I have decided that I am my favorite cook* and my house is my favorite place to eat.  :)  If I could cook for a restaurant and create meals for people, I think it would be the best job ever. 

Thanks to Mom for the lovely birthday meal.  Jared and I don't get fajitas very often.  Mary's Delight is always amazing too!!  YAY!!

Thank you to Hope for the fun red cutting board (and for noticing that I needed a larger cutting board), the knives, and the mini bowls.  Sarah, I love the polka dotted plates.  Mom, I love the books.  And thanks to Anna for the GROTTO's PIZZA SAUCE!!!  Oh my goodness, I cannot wait to make pizza again.  Maybe I will make you some deep dish pizza with it. 

I wish I had my camera with me;  I have lots of sewing projects that I could post pictures of.  I recently made the cutest baby quilt! I will one day post pictures of it.  I finished the quilt that I was working on back in September.  ha.  I was hand quilting it.  But it is done now. 

* My Mom, Aunt Suzanne, and Mama Cindy are also near the top of the list.  Some days when I am really tired when I come home from work I would rather be at their homes eating dinner.  Most days though, I love to cook. 

Random Things

My wedding photos found there way into Coastal Style Magazine. Not the ones that I wanted or when I wanted them to be published, but they are in print and that is pretty cool.  :)   Pick up a copy in stores around Salisbury.   It is funny to me that my simple wedding is in the pages of "Luxury living on the Eastern Shore".

 

I love this weather!!  Sunday and today are absolutely beautiful. 

 

Jared and I went to a funeral on Saturday for his boss's mother.  Jared sang it.  We walked around downtown Laurel while we waited to have lunch afterwards.  It is pretty down by the river.  We went in a baby store, one of the only two stores around (the other being a liquor store) and I saw one of the neatest things.  I want to see if my Dad and I could work this up whenever I have children.  They had a dresser that was flipped upside-down and the bottom (which was now the top) was a changing table.  The drawers were all reversible so they could be flipped either way.  As an engineer, I thought it was a great idea.  I mean, who uses their changing tables after the kids are gone.  This one can just be flipped over and used as a dresser for the rest of its life.  The other neat things that they had there were cribs that came apart and turned into a headboard and foot board when the kids grow up.   That also seems like a great idea.  Again, what do you do with a crib once a kid is gone?  Why not spend a little extra money and get something you can use for years.   NOTE:  I am not pregnant I am just talking about things I saw this weekend that I think are neat. 

 

We had lunch at an amazing restaurant called the Georgia House.  Oh my goodness, it was such good food!!!  We had the best mashed sweet potatoes that I have ever had, green beans, asparagus, garlic mashed potatoes, grilled chicken, shrimp on rice, roast beef, carrots, mac and cheese, noodles and red sauce, strawberry pretzel salad, smith island cake, cream puffs, brownies, apple cobbler, and peach bread pudding.  We didn't eat dinner that day or breakfast the next day.  I ate a very small lunch the next day and no dinner.  I was so stuffed.   If you are ever up in Laurel, I highly suggest going to this restaurant.  (www.eatgh.com)  I see from their website that they have five locations.  One is in Georgetown... I wonder if any of my family has been.

 

Today I am eating fruit salad for lunch (and cheese and crackers).  I cut up tons of strawberries yesterday (from my parents), kiwi, mango, cantaloupe, banana, and grapes.   I cut up a HUGE bowl.  I intend to keep fresh fruit in the house from now until September or October.  I love that I can go outside (to a field) and pick fresh food.  I love it!  It is so much fun.  

 

I am trying to check the spelling, but my gmail is all messed up.  I guess I will just send this to my blog now.  I want to go enjoy the outdoors.  Did I mention I love this weather?!?

cooking & baking makes me happy (so does sewing & taking care of a husband) - being a wife suits me well :)

I bought a new (old) cookbook last night at an antique shop in Salisbury. It is over 1600 pages and was published in the 1940s. It is one of the best cookbooks I have ever read. I read cookbooks like novels. They are like old dear friends to me. I read them and I reread them. This book only has a few pictures, but it is classic. I bought in and a Singer dress making book from the 1950s (complete with adorable hand drawn figures - I love that era of illustrations) for only $5.00. I thought it was a pretty sweet buy. It is in great condition, unlike some of my cookbooks so far.

The whole book is good home cooked food. I become hungry just reading through most of the recipes. I want to cook huge home cooked meals for my family when I have children. Cooking for one is no fun. Cooking for two is nothing new (and a lot of eating leftovers). I will treasure this book for a long time. It makes me happy. A lot of modern cookbooks are filled with pretty pictures and fancy meals that I would never prepare. What is wrong with chicken pot pie, lasagna, tacos, roast chicken, beef stew, and many other classic foods?!? Nothing!


P.S. Betty Crocker is still my favorite basic everything cookbook. It has everything to start off a good cooking career. This new book goes into details about healthy eating, canning, sauces, how to cut meats, how to set tables, how to garnish plates, and so much more. The dessert section is almost half the book. It makes me happy. I love it. I had just made it to the potato section when Jared wanted to run over to SU to post his, “What a friend we have in Jesus” video from the coffeehouse last night. I felt like I was putting down a good book. I wanted to finish!

P.P.S. If you want to see the video, it is below (hopefully). If not, search Jared Shelton on youtube and I think it will come up. That is how I found it. I think it was the second video in the search results.

  

A few updates on life...

Thanks to Sarah Meadows Foley, for the great worship music cds she gave me for my 21^st birthday.  They are a staple of the music that I listen to at work (along with all of Indelible Grace's hymn (check them out if you haven't ever heard them because they are AMAZING!!  I own all seven cds they have put out.  Thanks to my mother for having the last one shipped to my house as a great surprise).  This is one of the songs that have been stuck in my head all week.  

 

Give me one pure and holy passion

And give me one magnificent obsession

Give me one glorious ambition for my life

To know and follow hard after you

 

To know and follow hard after you
To grow as your disciple in your truth
This world is empty, pale, and poor
Compared to knowing you, my Lord
Lead me on and I will run after you
Lead me on and I will run after you

 

 

Last night, while Jared was at the men's retreat, I made granola and yogurt.  They both turned out wonderfully!  I have tried several different granola recipes and they have all turned out terribly. They are all very floury and gross.  I've gagged down a lot of them, but in the end I have just had to throw them away.  Sigh.  I was so happy to find this recipe.  It seemed to simple when I first read it, but I really like the flavor.  These are going to be a staple in my house from now on.  I mixed the yogurt with peaches today and brought it to work for my breakfast.  I sprinkled the granola over the top.  It was so good!!  I also tried a little bit of the granola with milk last night; it was also good.   I am thinking of adding a few more things to my granola and also, I want to try to make it a little for clumpy (if that is even a word).  Right now it is just very loose granola.  But this way I won't ever break a tooth trying to eat it.  :)

 

In case you want to try to make either, I have included the recipes below.  The recipes are from one of my favorite websites, The Frugal Girl.  If you haven't ever visited her delightful little site, please do.  She is incredible.  And for all my Salisbury readers, she lives just on the other side of the bay and is in a PCA church…. How cool is that!?!

 

I have added some of my own comments in throughout the recipe.  I fourthed both the granola and yogurt recipe.  I will probably half both of them next time.

 

Granola

2/3 cup honey
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups old-fashioned oats
1 cup sliced almonds
1 cup flaked coconut
1/2 cup sesame seeds
1/2 cup salted sunflower kernels
2 cups raisins

 

(I left out the sesame seeds and sunflower kernels, (like the frugal girl, but I would really like to add the sunflower seeds, I think they will be a really nice addition).  I also didn't have almonds, but I they are on my grocery list now so I can make another batch of this yummy granola. 

 

Directions:

1)In a small saucepan, combine honey, oil and brown sugar; cook and stir over medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat; add vanilla.

 

2)In a large bowl, combine the next five ingredients.(note: This does not include the raisins.)

 

 3)Add honey mixture, stirring until evenly coated. Spread onto two ungreased (I sprayed PAM on mine) baking pans. Bake at 300° for 20 minutes, stirring frequently (let's just say, I stirred it four times the entire 40 minutes I had it baking…). Stir in raisins. Bake for 10 minutes.

 

4)Cool, stirring occasionally. 

Store in an airtight container. Yield: 10 cups.

 

 

Homemade Yogurt (makes 4 quarts, which will keep for at least a month in the fridge)

For vanilla yogurt directions, see the bottom of the recipe.  I made the vanilla recipe.  I didn't add a lot of sugar because I figured the fruit would be sweet, but I ended up having to add more sugar to my yogurt when I ate it today.  But my plan is to wean myself off super sweet yogurts.

Ingredients

1 gallon of milk
1 cup yogurt starter(you can use a small cup of plain Dannon or Yoplait yogurt, or you can use a cup from your previous batch.)  I used Dannon because it was on sale at Super Fresh this week (starting yesterday).  I bought containers for 29 cents!  Woohoo.

 

1. Place four quart glass canning jars, four lids, and four screw-tops in a large pot. Fill with an inch of water; cover with lid and heat to boiling. Boil for ten minutes. Leave the lid on the pot and move it off the heat until you are ready to use the jars. I sort of do this… I usually dunk them in hot water and let them sit there for a while.  I stuck in a saucepan last night and let the water boil around it.

 

2. Pour one gallon of milk into a large, heavy bottomed stockpot or Dutch oven. Heat the milk to 185-195 degrees Farenheit(90-90 Celcius).  I wisk the milk as it heats up. 

 

3. Place the pot in a sink filled with cold water and let the milk cool to 120-130 degrees farenheit(50-55 degrees celsius).  This part is really awkward for me to hold the pan down in the water and wisk (but probably only because 1 quart of milk isn't heavy enough to sink to the bottom of the sink).  This happens really fast. 

 

4. Stir one cup of yogurt starter into the cooled milk, using a whisk. Stir well to ensure that the starter is thoroughly incorporated into the milk.

 

5. Pour the milk into jars, and put the lids and bands on. Place them into a cooler.  I put the jars in the sink (after I have drained it) and pour into the there because otherwise I make a mess.

 

6. Heat one gallon of water to 120-130 degrees F(50-55 degrees C) and pour into cooler.

 

7. Shut cooler lid and leave in a warm place for three hours. When the three hours are up, place the yogurt in the refrigerator.  I left mine overnight (about 8-9 hours) and it was finished in the morning.   I put it in the refrigerator before I left for work and it was quite thick.  I drained some water off the top before I packed some in my lunch/breakfast. 

 

To make a delicious vanilla version of this yogurt, add 1/2 to 1 cup of sugar to the four quarts of milk when it's cooling in the sink. Then stir in 1-2 tablespoons of vanilla, depending on your preference, and proceed as usual with the recipe. Remember,  I 1/4thed this recipe: I put in about 1/8 of a cup and ½ a tsp of vanilla.   I think I would put in more vanilla next time.

 

Other than that I have simply been doing a lot of cooking and reading.  There isn't anything too exciting to report.  I might be teaching two chemistry labs at SU next semester.  If I do, I will have more access to internet and I might post pictures.  :)  

 

Easter was a lot of fun because my parents had a bunch of people over including, the Taylors, Seips, Mae, and Jared and me.  I love being a member of a large family and an even larger church family.  It makes me so happy.  I made lemon meringue pie and key lime pie.  I think they are two of the easiest pies to make.  Anna and Andrew taught me how to play tennis afterwards.  I never knew tennis was such a fun game.  I would really like to learn how to play it now. 

 

God is good. He has been very faithful to Jared and me.  We feel very blessed. 

They moved my desk today to what is called "the fishbowl".  There are four desks against each wall and one at the end (in the shape of a horseshoe).  I typed in a little diagram below.  Maybe it will turn out.  My desk is highlighted in purple. I am in the middle of the room.  The woman next to me wears really strong perfume.  It is really setting off my allergies.  My head feels like it is going to explode.  This is not good.  sigh. 

 

 

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Quail Cove

Do you know anyone that buys stuff from Quail Cove?  I am thinking about buying whole wheat and grind it myself.  But it still is very expensive... As in $3.75 for a 5 pound bag.  It is cheaper in the store.  It really isn't worth it.  I want cheap whole grain flour!  Any suggestions?

I miss not having NBC.   I think that every year the Olympics take place.  Maybe if I watched them I would not enjoy them as much.  

I am reading several good books at work right now, Goforth of China and Stepping Heavenward are at my desk right now.  They are both really interesting and challenging.  Jonathan Goforth was crazy; I wish I were 1/10 as dependable and persevering as him and his wife.  He gave away over half his missionary salary!

I am teaching ESL for the next few weeks for the beggining class.  Please pray for me (and my students).  Numbers have really been declining recently and I would like at least a few students to teach.  I am actaully pretty excited about getting up in front of people again to teach.  I like teaching.  I haven't taught anything since my Chemistry class ended.   We are going to be talking about money and food.  It should be pretty fun.  Prayer is always appreciated. 

You can also pray as I teach a training class at work for our 20+ engineers and help with 3 other classes for manufacturing.  I am not so keen on teaching them especially as a new employee and on a topic that I am not so sure about.  But God is faithful and He will see me through.   I figure chocolate chip cookies can't hurt my cause either.  ha ha.  So I am bringing those along next Thursday to my meeting.  :)

Thanks!

On the way out to the gym yesterday, I checked the mail. In the mailbox was a box from Amazon.  I hadn't ordered anything, but I thought maybe Jared had ordered something for school.  I handed it to him and he got all excited and told me to close my eyes.  Then he opened the box and handed me the book inside.  It was a German Cookbook!  :) 

Yay!  I have been saying for the past month or so that I really wanted one for my birthday so that I could try a few recipes from Germany.  I never expected him to order it for me.  I was so surprised and happy.  Jared gives some of the best gifts.  It is so much fun to be married to him.  Thank God for Jared and the gift of marriage.  I love sharing my life with him.

For the first time ever, in the history of the company I work for, they closed because of snow! Those crazy New Yorker work through all sorts of snow (except when the city declares state of emergency and doesn't allow people out on the roads). Good thing because our road still hasn't been plowed and is a six inch slab of ice and potholes. Jared head out to shovel out my car and after working on it for half an hour he came back inside the house to take me to work. Thankfully I thought, maybe I should call and see if there is a delay or something (even though they told me that they never close). When I called they said, "first shift is canceled today".

So, on Thursday I had a snow day and so did Jared. He read me Lord of the Rings while I worked on my new quilt and while I cooked (soup and cinnamon swirl bread) and while I hand sewed one of my old quilts. We worked on a puzzle together, played a few board games, and watch a Jeeves and Wooster. It was so great and relaxing. Thank God for a husband who loves me and a day to enjoy being together in the same house.

I do like my job; the days go by very quickly.  It is extremely amusing.  However, it was nice for a day off.  

Oh, and grocery shopping is so much better with Jared!! But Walmart on the other hand is terrible. It is such a mess and nothing was in stock. sigh. It was annoying. Boxes were all over the floor and things were thrown everywhere. They didn't even have green peppers. I wish we had a Super Target. I would totally pay the few extra cents to shop in an environment that was friendly and clean and cheerful.

Mom, where do you buy that awesome stir fry sauce? Is it only sold at Food Lion? And what is it called? I went to Walmart and Super Fresh last night and neither of them had them. :(

1.  I had a great time at my parents house this weekend during the snow.  Friday night we went to the Shelton's to celebrate Pastor Shelton's birthday.  Then we came home and spent the night at our house.  When we woke up we didn't have power so we headed to my parents house because they have a woodstove!!   YAY!  Jared didn't have to work so we all played in the snow all afternoon building an igloo (that never got a roof - ha).  Jared and Luke dug a snow cave that Luke tried to sleep in Saturday night.  Sunday we just hung around the house and took a few walks in the snow.  It was great.   If you ever need a good Bed and Breakfast you can stay at my parents (we have done it the last two weekends and it has been so much fun).  Thanks Mom and Dad.

 

2. I love pita and cream cheese.  I also love english muffins, butter, and honey. 

 

3.  Kickboxing is now offered at nights at the Y!  Yes.  I think I am going to have to go.  I miss kickboxing. 

 

4.  I have decided, yet again, (while at work today) that Delirious is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) Christian band to ever exist.  I am so very thankful for them and for my Dad who shares my love of them.  :)  And for my husband who likes them better than most of my music and will listen to them with me. 

 

5.  I am also thankful for a husband who helps me put away the dishwasher, wash the bathrooms, grocery shop, and vacuum.  I am also glad that he will read to me while I fold clothes and clean out piles of papers from last semester.  I love that he goes to the gym with me and likes my cooking.  Life is more fun with Jared. :D  He makes me laugh and smile so often.   We have so much fun doing the most boring and everyday tasks.  Marriage is great.  Jared and marriage are better than I ever thought possible. 

My job is really funny. It makes me laugh. I enjoy coming in to work each day (not the whole waking up at 5:50 thing, but I have worked out pushing my snooze until 5:55 and still making it to work in plenty of time - ha). The days go by really really fast, which is a good thing because otherwise I don't think I would enjoy my job half as much.

My car has new struts and rotors and brake pads. My Dad is bringing it to me either tonight or tomorrow. I am so excited to drive it again. It is going to be smooth.

I love Jared and being married to him is so much fun!! He makes me laugh all the time and he eats my food.

And in other news, it is snowing outside. I have already taken three walks in the snow. One at morning break and two during lunch time. ha. People must think I am crazy, but I love it so much. :)

Lunch is over, but there is a quick update.

As disruptive as the storm will be in the Midwest and Plains, plan on "no travel" in the Virginias, central and southern Pennsylvania, the Delmarva and much of New Jersey Friday night into Saturday.

Apparently, we have become "the delmarva".  This is funny to be because the va in delmarva stands for Virginia, so why mention it again?

A few shots from life

Photos on the kitchen wall.

Hudson after being sprinkled by "magic dust" by Bright.   I leave for a minute to put something in the oven and I come back to flour all over the ground and Hudson.

Our tree. Sideways. I can't get it to flip. Sorry.

 

Our street the first night it snowed. 

Something that amazes me is that I have this little basic sewing machine (thank you, Mrs. Bailey), but I can do so many amazing things with it. This quilt I am making right now if by far my favorite thing that I have done and my little machine keeps sewing along. The only problem I have sewing is that if I sew too fast the table starts to vibrate and makes the machine jump up and down, but that is the table's fault and not the sewing machine's. Plus, going slower makes me learn patience. That is something I really think is good for me in quilting. I have to do all these little steps to make the finished product and if one little dimension is off the whole thing looks sloppy and junky. I have to really think through each step and what I am doing and make sure my measurements make sense and take the time to iron all the seams. It is fun. I really enjoy it. I hope to finish the top tonight and then maybe put on boarders and try to assemble the back (if I am extremely adventurous). I have to go to SU to use their Internet to pay a few bills online (so maybe... if I remember... I will bring pictures... maybe).

New Quilt

I have started a new quilt and it is eating me up inside.  It is all I can think about at work and it is making the day go extremely slowly.  Mrs. Shelton gave me the pattern for it for Christmas, but I hadn't found the right fabrics to match some of my older fabrics.  Saturday I found the perfect fabrics that go amazingly and they are so colorful (maybe if I remember I can take a picture).  So Sunday while Jared took his nap I cut out all the squares (I guess they are more rectangular).  It was really quite simple;  I really like when a pattern has you cut bigger pieces and then sew them together with other bigger pieces and then cut more pieces for that.  I started sewing some of it when we came home from evening church and Jared was watching the end of the Saints/Vikings game (which went into overtime and I had even more time... YAY). 

 

I just thought I would blog about it because it is all I can think about right now.  I WANT to be home quilting and not here at work.  Thankfully Jared has classes tonight and so I can spend the entire evening sewing.  :)  YAY!!  I have great plans to have this finished by the time he comes home.  I have a great idea for another quilt that I am hoping to start as soon as this one is finished.  I just need to go out and buy some cream colored fabric. 

 

I am so excited.  I can't wait.  I love fabrics (especially when you find the perfect colors and patterns to go together). 

I might run out in this crazy rain and wind on my lunch break just so I can sew for 20 minutes...

update

Friday: I worked and then Michelle came down for the weekend.  I made mini cinnamon buns and we, along with Jared because he had the night off, went to the Townsends for a game night.  It was a lot of fun.  I hadn't been invited over to someone's house since the holidays and it was nice to get out of the house.  It was also awesome to have Michelle there!!

Saturday: Jared worked.  Michelle and I made a cake (she really made it, I just pulled ingredients out for her).   Michelle went bowling with Anna, Andrew, and Luke.  I watched.  Saturday night we went to my parents house and Michelle made us all a delicious dinner.  After which we headed over to the Robins to watch Michelle's favorite team beat up on the Ravins. 

Sunday:  Jared got sick and missed church.  When I came home from church I brought him blankets, made him jello, and bought him some Gatorade.  I watched TV for the first time in forever (other than sports).  I watched the Lawrence Welk show documentary and then Jared and I watched some of Anne of Avonlea.  Sigh.  What a great movie.  Jared went to bed at 5:45.  I read until 7:30 and finally turned out the lights. 

Monday: I worked.  Came home and made chicken noodle soup for Jared and we finished watching Anne of Avonlea.  We then rented Julie and Julia and watched that too.  It was a really cute movie.  I really enjoy ed Meryl Streep's performance. I forgot I wasn't watching Julia Child.  Julia Child has always sort of annoyed me, but I found her very endearing in this movie. 

Tuesday: I went to work.  I came home.  Jared went to his first class. He is taking macro economics and statistics this semester.  While he was in class I tried to fight with itunes and finally straighten out some of my music files that have been messed up since I graduated over a year ago.  Sigh. I made some progress, but I still hate itunes with a vengeance.  I don't find it user friendly at all!  I was going to start loaded cds onto my external hard drive, but after three hours of organizing and fighting with it I decided to go to bed.  Maybe I will make more progress with it next week while Jared is at class.

Wednesday: Jared went back to work!! Hooray for him.  He was so excited, especially since he is going back to work to run a job, which he hasn't done (since there has been no real jobs) in over 8 months.  He was pretty excited last night.   I am kind of sad that I don't have the chance to eat lunch with him each day, but I am also glad because my lunch break now is twice as long since I don't have to drive home and park and all that fun stuff.

I still love my job.  I love my husband more than ever.  I think he is absolutely perfect for me.  He is so great at making me feel loved.  Did I mention he bought me orange (with yellow tips) tulips for our 6 month anniversary?  He is grand.  I love being his wife. 

God is good!  He proves himself faithful over and over and over and over again in our lives.  He is altogether holy and his plans and ways are perfect.  :)   

blogging

I am testing the blogging posting ability with my email... will it work?!? 

 

If it does I can post from my computer at work during breaks!!

1. Our tree is up and it looks amazing. I will post pictures (probably after Christmas... ha ha). It looks beautiful!!! It is so fun to have our house decorated with Christmasy things. :)

2. Jared is amazing. I think he is the best husband ever. He makes me laugh every day many times a day and it is so much fun living in the same house and trying to take care of him. We start laughing at the weirdest things and it is so much fun to laugh with Jared. He is so thoughtful and thinks of me all the time even though he is working two jobs and taking two classes.

3. I love cooking. It is so great getting to use all my super nice things that I received for my wedding. Everyone was so nice and sweet to buy me such nice things. I enjoy them all the time. I love my crock pot (oh wait, I bought that... ha ha), hot water kettle, no stick pans, air bake cookie sheets, all my cake pans, spatulas, rub away bar, my sifter, my little plant that Auntie S have me, and my knives. Oh, there is so much that I have so much fun using.

4. My job is going well. The people are all so funny (and if I didn't have a sense of humor and think of myself as a real live Dilbert character I would probably think it was really annoying). Yes, I think that I am working in a real live Dilbert strip. It is great. I work right next to accounting and purchasing and it is great. I laugh to myself all the time. I should write down some of the things I hear, but mostly what makes me laugh is the attitudes and atmosphere of the place. Oh man, it is truly hilarious.

5. Merry Christmas. I don't know what I will be near a computer with blogging access again for a while. Spell check isn't working so... you are going to have to deal with the errors.

Yesterday, while waiting for my sweet potato cans to boil and seal, I went and looked at my phone. I had a missed call from some number I didn't recognize. So I called my voicemail and I had a message from Harvard Custom Manufacturing asking me to come in to an interview today at 9:30. So I called back and confirmed that I could come at 9:30.

When I went in today they interviewed me and made it sound like they wanted to hire me, but in the future when they had a position open. Well, they asked me to wait in this hallway, right by the receptionist. I started talking to her about life and work and other things. The guy who interviewed me came back out and asked me to follow him into another office, which I found out later was the human resource director's office. He talked to me for a while and told me that my credentials were really awesome, but I had no experience so they were going to have to pay me less than a regular engineer with experience. At this point I am going, what? Hire me? Then he said, we really want to hire you because you seem to good to pass up, what would you work for? I should have asked for something, but I really didn't care. ha ha. And his offer ended up being only about 3000 grand less than I was going to ask.

So you are now reading the blog of Harvard's newest junior electrical engineer. Yes!! I am an electrical engineer. I am going to play with wires and circuits and electrical things. I am going to help design the electrical systems for defense vehicles (airplanes, tanks, cars, helicopters... etc).

Praise God. He is so good to me. This job seems like it is perfect for me AND it is only five minutes from my house and it has the same hours at Jared's job (7-4)!! YAY!!

P.S. Did you know that Harvard has over 900 employees? I didn't. The building is HUGE!! They started as a division of Northrop before they became Northrop Grumman. And they work with Lockheed Martin and Boing and Northrop Grumman on most jobs. It is a job that I never expected to find on the Eastern Shore. I thought I would have to be in the DC area to find a job like this. I am so excited. I just have to pass my drug test. :)

Today I came to SU to check my email. I parked in the faculty parking since I figured, "I paid for the permit, why not use it?" The woman I parked next to got out of her car (after I started walking towards the building), looked at the front of my car, and walked back to her car. I am pretty sure she checked to see if I had a red parking pass and if I hadn't had it I bet she would have called the police. ha.