My daughter takes guitar lessons from a gentleman who owns his own studio. She been taking lessons from him since last July and is progressing very nicely. Last week, when we went in for her lesson, he informed me that the young kid who had been working for him quit. He was in a quandry about what he was going to do. He even went so far as to ask me if I wanted the job! I told him that I didn’t read music, so it really depended on what the work entailed and we sort of left it at that.
Today we were back for this week’s lesson and he brought up the job again, this time though, he had made a list of job duties. It’s basically filing, printing documents and music from his computer, answering the phone, ordering supplies, etc. This, for the most part, I can do. The only thing that is questionable are the hours. This is not an 8-5 kind of job. It would mostly be working a few hours a day, a few days a week, but in the afternoons. This could create a scheduling problem for me because it would mean my daughter would either have to come with me or she’d stay at home by herself.
Basically, today I told him that I’d like to meet with him when he doesn’t have a lesson going on so he could show me in more detail what he wants, the programs on his computer, etc., and we could come up with a schedule that would work for both of us. We haven’t talked money yet either, so I’m interested to see what he thinks this job is worth.
Right now I’m still mulling this over. The extra money would sure come in handy. I’ll keep you posted.
I wrote a post about title insurance companies yesterday and I received several emails asking for more information. I feel it’s pretty important as a home buyer to know what you are getting, not just in the house, but in the land it sits on.
A title company is responsible for ensuring there are no outstanding liens on the property. You wouldn’t want to purchase a home and find out later that the company that installed the swimming pool is holding a lien against it. If that were the case, you’d become responsible for paying off that lien. Having a title insurance company prepare and issue a title insurance policy on the property gives a property owner piece of mind. The policy gives a history of the property and any liens that have been made against it and what rights or easements anyone else may have. For example, on our home in Houston, our title insurance policy stated something to the affect that if oil were to be found under ground, the oil rights would belong to a specific utility company.
The title policy on our current house shows me who, specifically, had liens or ownership rights to the land in the past. The policy also provides dates of when those rights were relinquished. I always pay the extra money when purchasing a home, not only to to have a title policy, but to have a copy of the actual title insurance policy in my possession. I think it’s very important as a home owner to know what my legal rights are regarding the property.
So, I hope I’ve not been repetitive, but I think it’s an important issue that any home buyer needs to be aware of.
This week I decided to tackle something that’s been annoying me for quite some time, the kitchen island. There are so many days that I wonder where all the crap that lands on the island would go if we didn’t have an island at all! This is definitely something I need to keep up with on a daily basis or it will look like this again, in a hurry. If you really look in the picture, you can see that the counter had actually overflowed onto the stools, we couldn’t even sit down!
It really did take me all week to get it looking like this. There were a lot of papers that needed to be filed and items that needed a home. I didn’t just want to move the mess, I wanted to eliminate it. Plus, every time I would get it partially cleared, somebody would drop something new onto the counter. It’s definitely an ongoing, never ending tackle.
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Since moving to Texas, we’re all ready having to think about sun care, it was almost 80 today and I couldn’t get over all the people working in their yards outside! Not to mention, I’ve been considering going some place warm and sunny for Spring Break in a few weeks.
My daughter came home from school this afternoon and was chatting with a friend on her cell phone when, due to lack of a good sunscreen, her lips did something really funky. I decided to grab the video camera to capture it on film. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing! You might want to check this out so the same thing doesn’t happen to someone you love.
I’ve decided to enter this video in the Spring Break contest, the Xtreme Spring Break Challenge, sponsored by Ocean Potion. The Grand Prize winner will receive either $5,000 or an Xtreme Dream Vacation, I could use either one of those prizes! They really do carry some terrific sun care products, after sun care and tanning lotions, even for kids. They even carry a self tanner. Their products contain high SPF’s and aloe vera for skin conditioning, plus, all of their products are PABA free.
If you have an interesting tanning story, you may just want to enter this contest yourself!
I want to say that I am very sorry I haven’t been posting much about sewing over the last week or so. I’ve been so busy trying to get tax paperwork done, health benefits updated and generally managing my daughter’s Destination Imagination team, I haven’t had much time to sew. In fact, I’ve had no time to sew.
I did make it to the fabric store last Saturday and stocked up on thread, it was all half price. That’s the closest I’ve come to fabric or anything sewing related in almost two weeks.
I am attending a class this Thursday to re-familiarize myself with the embroidery function on my machine. Hopefully that will motivate me to get busy. I’d really like to make some shirts for the DI team to wear to the tournament, which, by the way, is less than two weeks away.
I’m rambling here so I will end this post, but I wanted to say that I hope to get back to my sewing very soon and will have more to post on that subject when I do.
