I did also. And I have been to CT many times. This proves the world will end Friday.

:iagree: The sky is falling!!! Send money immediately!

I like cabbage in beef-vegetable soup.

Can I be Team Emmett?

:iagree:

My husband and I spend about eight and one half months in New Zealand during 2011-2012. He was working in the Auckland area so I'm much more familiar with the North Island but we did make a visit to Queenstown, which is in the Otago region. A few thoughts: US passport holders can stay three months on just the passport. If you are staying longer, you will need to apply for a tourist visa. Easier and cheaper to do from here than when you are in the country. Queenstown is known for its ski slopes but has developed as a year round outdoor adventure spot. Remember the seasons are opposite. Summer is December, January, February, and Winter is June, July, August. That means not only colder weather but also shorter days. Central Otago wineries produce a wonderful Pinot Noir!

My first thought was Mauritania because that was a country I had to study once and I had never heard of it. If you want really obscure how about Niue? Vanuatu? Tonga?

Oh my, where to begin? If you are flying from the US, I think you have to fly into Auckland. I have never heard of an international flight of that type going anywhere else. Maybe from Sydney you could go into Christchurch or Queenstown. From Auckland you can connect all around the country. For LOTR sites, I would try two main areas. On the South Island, there are tours that go out of Queenstown to exact filming locations. We did not do a tour (to save on funds) but we did have a rental car and drove up in the general area. On the North Island, 'Hobbiton' is in Matamata, near Cambridge/Hamilton. We were heading back to Auckland from Rotorua and were planning to stop along the way but they were filming for The Hobbit at the time so the area was closed. So we saw general area but nothing specific each time. We used Trip Advisor to find accommodations and activity recommendations. In the major city areas there are hotel/motels but in more outlying areas we stayed in B&Bs. They worked out fine for us. Going sometime Sept. to Nov. would be better than June anyway! June is the first month of winter and the days are short. If I had my choice of months, it would be February. End of summer but the kids are back in school and everyone is done with 'holiday'.

Let me offer a little hope at the end of the tunnel. Once everything was *done* I felt much better mentally and emotionally. The anxiety and *extreme* irritability began to subside and life was just easier (for me and everyone else around!) Even memory improved, although not to school day/ young adult levels. So glad that was just a phase and not my permanent condition from then on!

Aren't the Jonas Brothers getting a little long in the tooth? Do they know 1 Direction?

We had a small art group that toured a Byzantine rite Catholic church to view the icons. I think it was arranged through a friend-of-a-friend type thing.

Maybe I'm just a prude, but I am not interested in seeing or hearing about other people's bodily functions on Facebook.

This was from 2009. How have we not all heard about this monumental event in church history? /sarcasm

:iagree: That struck me as very odd at the time. Sort of a time warp thing.

I was 53.

Thanks for the information!

Thank you so much for the information. The link you provided was very helpful. I will investigate various training options and plot a future course.

I suppose the size of the undertaking explains my confusion! It seems such a huge task I am unsure where to begin. I think one of the best tools would be an understanding of organizational principles. In the case of a small, limited resource archive, what would be the best tasks to accomplish with the given time and resources? What is the most effective way to insure that materials are both conserved but also accessible as needed? Which tasks have priority and which are more optional? If these questions seem vague, it is because I am still grouping to get a handle on the whole process. Thanks for any help available!

Well, this is my first thread, so here goes... I volunteer as an archivist for our small, local historical society. We run on a shoestring budget so training and materials are limited. I feel reasonably comfortable cataloging new collections, but am at a loss in organizing and preserving both new and existing materials. I noticed a professional archivist answered in the family archive thread. I was wondering if she, or anyone else, had suggestions for either online or printed resources on the "how-to" of working in an archive. Any information would be greatly appreciated! I will be out the rest of this morning but will check back later in the day. Thanks for any and all suggestions!

This link offers a few ideas and provides some leads for a more thorough search. http://kimriddlebarger.squarespace.com/the-latest-post/2007/12/19/why-doesnt-john-mention-the-destruction-of-the-temple-in-rev.html

What goes around, comes around.;)

My Maytag washer is 32 years old. We used wedding gift money to buy a washer/dryer set. The dryer died a few years ago but the washer is still going. The only problem is that some of the push buttons to set different cycles can be hard to get to 'lock' in place. The washing mechanism is still trouble free.

Dd and I spent the afternoon shopping for her wedding gown! :001_smile:

I find Facebook to be a useful tool. I enjoy seeing pictures and picking up the little tidbits of news that are not enough for a big, general announcement. I use the chat feature to keep up with my adult children. I don't have a huge friend list and I freely use the block and delete features. My motto for Facebook is, "Other people's Facebook posts are not about me."

I just figured it out yesterday. It took me several tries before a found a picture that was the right file size. I am on an IPad and, for some reason, the program was not letting me use one of my own pictures???