My Mycelium Journey

 Things are stressful and busy, but they are good.  So thankful for Drew <3

 I suppose you could say I got a little overwhelmed at my job the other day, it's hard to manage your time when so much of time management relies on how much a client feels like doing. I was auditing back to back and had projects for the not so spare time. I panicked! At the height of this frustration, I found myself trolling around on Linkedin. Here, I found what looked like a perfect job. Enter Stryker! A Sr Supplier Quality Engineer position with a leader in the field. One of the early interviews was a Gallup interview that instantly felt like a failure and left my confidence in ruin. Turns out, it wasn't that bad and they wanted to go ahead with the team interviews. These went much better and it sounded like they had decided they wanted to hire me based on my resume and qualifications alone. How thrilling! What a compliment! I was even able to get to the offer table without naming a price. The price they came to me with was below what I was currently at so they decided to r...

I participated in my first-ever vendor market earlier this year. It was a lot of work leading up to it. I bought over 30 pounds of sweet potatoes to make dog treats. Had some leftover. I found that the best treats were actually the cookies. The best part of the cookies was giving them to people at the bar that had brought their dogs. We went to Meteor after the event was over. Overall, I think it was a break-even endeavor if you don't count labor as a cost. which doesn't say a lot for sustainability as a business... but I did have to buy a lot to go into this, mostly table, paper cutter, bags, etc. the sweet potatoes from Aldi were the cheapest.   

Are you going to listen to messages? What do they say? Where's the creativity come from? What do you want to do?  

 

Parties used to be a thing... People gathering in general... Starting to really miss things like this but so thankful that I had the oppertunity to see everyone that was able to come out for this! What a blast! Nothing to motivate a house cleaning project like having friends over (and needing the space to decorate!). 

GWAR! This was Fun Fun Fun fest in 2010. I was so excited to see GWAR walking around I got a picture with them!  I missed out on getting a shirt, they (and their merch) only stayed the day they played and I didn't even go to a merch tent that day. This picture was better than any shirt, though, and takes up less space!  

 

Had so much fun in the paper mache! Probably have't made a pinata since grade school! He's full of Rum, Candy, Lais, and pirate booty. This was part of the party preparation for Talk Like a Pirate double feature in the backyard tomorrow! The final product! pretty pleased with how this came out. Alfi is terrified of him, maybe it's too realistic? Forming the body and the first coats of paint! First face iterations. Had to change to something a little less happy cartoon. All of these face components got nixed.  Face overhaul. updated eyebrows, eyes, and mouth.   

Room 1 is DONE!  

Beautiful night for a walk in the park! 75 degrees and overcast.   

Refinancing the house. Looking like a rate of 2.5% which is pretty fantastic. Current rate is 3.75%. This is the 2nd refinance on this house, but with rates this low it's hard not to jump at the chance. Was looking for another house but the market is too hot right now. Houses are selling too quickly and for more than asking. Maybe in a year or so I can pick back up and look around. Wasn't sure if I'm fully committed to moving out to the country. Still enjoying this house, but I knew I really liked it when I bought it. I didn't walk into this house and think "this is a perfect rental" like I did when I bought my first house. feeling pretty lucky to be "in" on this house and having the opportunity to do some renovations. 

Fully grouted, ready for sealant. Baseboards to be painted and put back in. I really like the color, had concerns about the light grout but it's a very thin grout line and going to seal it too... should be fine! So fresh and so clean. No more dog odor. Just needs a rug to pull the room together!  And curtains...  

 It's been a while, but grouting has finally begun! Will be exciting to have this room back. Not sure what to do with it, might move in for a bit while the rest of the tile works it's way around. RUGS!

Coinbase -  This is a place to exchange USD for some of the more common coins Like Bitcoin, Etherium, Litecoin, Dash. They are adding more coins as days go by, but if you want different or more rare coins you may have to get your USD into Bitcoin and then move it to an exchange. You'll have to send the crypto coins over the blockchain using a hashed version of the public key. The private key is the security behind your digital asset, don't share this with anyone you wouldn't want to have access to your coin.  The exchanges peg Bitcoin to the other "altcoins" (altcoins are anything that isn't Bitcoin). The price of the altcoin is actually in Satoshis which takes a little getting used to.  https://www.coinbase.com/join/larris_z    Once you get your account set up in Coinbase, you can go to Coinbase pro (same login/account) and the trades are cheaper.  https://pro.coinbase.com/  This disadvantage to pro is that you have to put your funds into the account ...