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!