sunday 11/14/10

woke up to see the horizon before the sunrise - the colors right above the mountains were so beautiful and made me very thankful to be back home in vt. granted, i was half awake, so i fell right back asleep after taking in the beautiful sight. putzed around the house this morning and hung out with geoffrey and gordon. carrie and dad got home from church, and carrie said she was going shopping - now the whole reason why i came home was so i could help clean up a little bit, so, i told her nonononono and we cleaned up the area around the piano.

not very excited to head back today, mostly because of the driving aspect of it. my job isn't exactly inspiring to go back either, but i'm hoping i'll get over that. i saw an ad on craigslist for a job offer as a real estate photographer for way more $ + milage. no sales, no cheesy backgrounds, no wal-mart - it sounds amazing, but i've already promised my manager that i wouldn't quit until at least after christmas... it'd be great if i could work both - i'll have to look into it. wouldn't hurt at least applying to it.

thursday 11/4/10

what a miserable day outside. the weather is cold and rainy, and it makes me want to stay curled up in bed all day. fortunately, i've managed to do the dishes (without making it explode with bubbles), clean and organize my room, do my laundry, and pack for the weekend.

i'm going up to vt for my cousin, charlie's wedding. should be a nice time - i'm hoping to get some photos. i haven't been shooting as much lately as i'd like to - not even at work. i'm still training at the picture me portrait studio, but i did get to do some test shots with some of the prop teddy bears - that was pretty fun.

wednesday 11/3/10

carpooled with jes this morning. she dropped me off at walmart, where i met up with leann, my co-worker. leann and i had to attend an associates meeting in danville. it took us about 1.5 hours to drive from dickson city. the meeting wasn't too bad. our regional manager showed up out of no where, which made our district manager a little irritated - he tends to be a bit long winded, which kept us at the meeting a bit longer than anticipated. funny thing is, we still got out rather early! we hit a little bit of traffic on the way back, and ended up stopping at the viewmont mall, because we had some time to kill before jes got out of work. leann wanted to get a frozen lemonade, and i wasn't planning on getting anything, but we stopped in a store called charlotte russe, and i couldn't help passing up a cute dress for only $13. hey, i needed something to wear to the wedding this weekend :-) we had to leave the mall before i was tempted to buy anything else, and leann dropped me off at aspen dental. i waited for a little bit in the waiting room, and then jes and i headed back home. it was nice making that drive with someone else in the evening. we're trying to convince mike to get a job in the area too, so we could all carpool, and save some $ on gas.

we ordered chinese from yo po II - loved the name. it was decent food, and actually really cheap. us kids (minus cam) went downstairs and watched she's out of my league for about the 10th time. such a great movie - so funny.

i'm excited to go back home this weekend and get to attend a fun event and see my family and friends. hopefully there won't be any car troubles!

thursday 10/28/10

day 27.

finished a wedding portfolio and a general portfolio today for my meeting on monday. hopefully michael mannig will like what i have to show him (fingers crossed). i'm very excited to meet with him (maybe his wife too) and possibly land a wedding photography gig for their studio.

start training at picture me studios tomorrow in dickson city. i haven't been working for so long now, it's definitely going to take some getting used to (especially a regular sleeping schedule). i'm pretty excited though. i guess most of the 'training' will be on the computer tomorrow, and then who knows. i haven't gotten many details on the job yet. hopefully it'll be good.

wednesday 10/27/10

day 26.

i can't believe that it's been 13 years since the day my mother passed. i'm never going to forget that day - full of emotions. didn't do too much today - worked on my wedding portfolio a bit and hung out around the house. got a delivery of flowers from my sister - a very beautiful arrangement. she said that she wanted a different one, but the place was running low on flowers. either way - it was very thoughtful of her. i usually go down to the grave, and bring some flowers, but obviously i wasn't able to do so this year. carrie also put up a great photo album on facebook of old pictures of mom - those were great! i hadn't even seen some of them before. i just love old pictures in general.

sunday 10/24/10

day 23.

mike and jes arrive tomorrow! lots of preparations were made today - a.k.a cleaning out the downstairs and the rest of the stuff from my closet that wasn't mine. i guess i'm officially moved in, since i have all my own stuff in my room now accept for my drum from kenya. now, i just have to unpack and arrange everything... which could be an everlasting project until the next time i move.

went for a walk with parker around the loop (which i believe is about a mile). it was unseasonably warm out today, which was nice - made me sweat a bit! watched the pats kill it today against the san diego chargers. well, not kill it, exactly - they should have with all the turn overs they had, but i enjoyed yelling at the tv and scaring the dogs just the same.

cameron helped me make a super healthy dinner of hamburger helper tonight. i wish i was more of a cook, but its hard with picky eaters in the house...

calling picture me studios tomorrow to say that i'm on board with them - its time to start making some money and supporting myself here. its been a long road since rock n willy's kind of gave me the boot.

saturday 10/23/10

day 22.

hung out at home while the rest of the fam went to harvest fest. parker and i went for a nice walk. we befriended a cat and another dog on our trip - he's such a friendly pup - he's such a good boy.

busted out my sax for a while today - i think i need to leave it at home next time i'm there, beacuse its sounding kind of out of shape. of course, that could just be me, and not my horn, but i'd like to double check. i've been thinking about trading my current one in for a new horn, but i need $ to do that..

now, we're all sitting in front of the fire and watching storm chasers - i couldn't ever do that - those guys are pretty crazy!

excited to get mike and jes moved in down here in a couple days!