I finally got my wax shipment in! Yay! I have been a candle-making fool. I am working with soy wax for the first time, so I have another learning curve again. Everything about it is different from the paraffin; heating temps, pouring temps, coloring - everything. Ugh. I've been making lots and lots of mistakes. I've tried to replicate my photo candle three times with the soy wax with no success. Bummer. I need to get all my christmas gifts made and out the door by sat. to make sure everything gets to where it's going by xmas.

Still waiting to hear on the refinancing deal - I'm pretty anxious. If we get it, we will be SO much better off; debt-free pretty much. So I have a stomach ache from nerves; I had hoped to hear from the mortgage guy today. Dave and I have even talked about maybe using some of the money for me to have that lasik eye surgery. To have decent vision for once in my life would be an unbelievable blessing. I've been wearing glasses since the first grade, and I'm legally blind without them, so it would be a major change. If I qualify for it or whatever. I'm just excited about the possibility.

Bean and Dave are in bed; he has to get up for a job at midnight, poor guy. Then they want him to work right away again in the morning. ??? So far he's liking this new company, so hopefully he'll be able to settle in and stay put for a while. He's had a lot of job changes the last few years; a couple of lay-offs in Portland, and this is the third company he's worked for in Vegas already. They haven't been *great* companies (he does construction inspection, so he does the same job, just different employers), and every change has been an improvement, but it will be nice for him not to be "the new guy" again for a while. He hates that part of switching jobs. He is not a social butterfly, my man. He can work a crowd when he needs to, but he'd prefer to be home playing video games. :)