November 27

Ok first question. 

WHO TURNED OFF THE HEAT?

Thursday I was rockin' my flip-flops and today, my toes were literally numb as I watched over the lost and found booth at the stadium. I could so do without winter time. 

Second Question:

How cute are they? 

I was called in for a last minute/emergency photo-shoot by my favorite photo-shoot-family. They had an appointment at a studio but had to cancel due to the KY fan traffic. So guess who got a call? 

I love.love.love photographing these kids! 

More Photos 

Third Question:

How you'd Kentucky Fans enjoy today's game? 

Considering we beat you guys 24-17! 

Oh yeah. 

Go.Big.Orange!!!! 

                          

November 23

I am looking forward to Thursday and Friday. Words cannot express how much I am dying to sleep in, to clean my house from top to bottom, and then lounge around in it, with no.obligations.whatsover.
My family will be heading out of town for Thanksgiving, so we're going to have a "Thanksgiving Breakfast" instead, then the rest of the day is all mine. I signed up to work Friday evening, so I'll at least have the day to do "whatever", and can spend my evening doing homework..working. The VO.LS take on Kent.ucky Saturday, and my camera and I will be "tooling around" campus on my golf cart, snapping photos. Yess my job is pretty cool, if I do say so myself.

What are you doing for the Thanksgiving Weekend? 
And no that's not a rhetorical question. I won't even beat you up if you answer it! 

Peace Out Peoples.
~ E

November 13: Today was a good day

V-O-L-S GO VOLS GO! 

51 - 14 Against Ole Miss! 

I also was able to take a STEP in the direction to irradiating this....shall we say "predicament" I have found myself in.

Its something to tune of.. $800 but you know, what else is new. 
I also need to start on my three page English paper....alas my brain is functioning on barely auto...lets hope we can pull it off.

miscellany monday

I Love those who encourage my randomness.

{1} You know its monday when.....you crash your work computer multiple times with in the first hour of being there. You knock your companies website off-line within two hours. You've had to restart your computer at least 3 times with in three hours, and you are trying to figure out a way to break the bad news to your boss.

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{2} Amazing weekend, it was a little surrell almost we had 5 people get saved during the campmeeting, one of which I knew growing up. Its awesome to be able to have her in our lives again. Saturday was our post-camp meeting picnic....which I had photos of but since my memory card is acting stupid, I don't know if I can retrieve them.

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{3} Was able to get the site back online. Its really sad when you have to go back to Dreamweaver 8 (Like the FIRST version of Dreamweaver) because CS5 is crashing. 

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{4} I was contacted recently by CSN stores to host another review with them. I was surprised and pleased, after all who doesn't like free stuff!? I still use the products I purchased from them last time, which you can read about here.....As you all know, the amount of things available on CSN is quite overwhelming, from kitchen appliances to nightstands. I'm sure it will take me...oh a month or so to decide what to review! :)

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{5} Was thrilled the VOLS won over UAB (32-23) something like that. That's good cause I was about to ditch them if we lost ANOTHER game. its funny I could have cared less about football two years ago, now I'm sitting at picnics constantly refreshing my phone to keep up with the score. 

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{6} Oh Look Photos!

{The view from my yard}

{Inside}

{This little girl's hair, is almost as long as she is tall!}

{Her little brother}

 {Yikes look at the noise! Otherwise known as Kristen and Audrey}

 {My man Blake, who helped take care of Pompei for me}

 {Its how you know we're in the south}

 {My littler man Nicholas and }

 DUTCH BLITZ!!!!

 {Kristen, Nicholas, Emily, Kristen and Audrey}

 The Elmos

 my MAIN man Pompei 

 Volley Ball!

All in all a good weekend.

..But I'm not. Obviously

First of all: WHO DAT SAY DEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS? WHO DAT!! GO SAINTS!!!! (Not because I actually care, but it's a catchy song :)

Actually I really should be working on my Sociology Paper..or my Exemplification Piece...but yeah. I did finally get at least a topic picked for my sociology paper. A small research into why aggression has nothing to do with he dog's breed and everything to do with the dogs owner.

Ask Texas.

Monday I met with a lady, and made the leap from Sony to Canon. Don't know how much I'm liking that decision, but its done. Being a Photography major, I felt it would probably benefit me to have to have a camera with not 1...or 2... but 3 lenses for only$650. But I feel now that I have no clue how to use an DSLR anymore. Plus I've had my Sony for two years now, and...*gulp* i am not quite ready to part with it just yet. Granted I say that and I go out and snaps some shots that bring my confidence level back up a little bit..?

{The Bad - That's my work Camera...fyi sorry I'm a major Nikon "hater" :) Gotta be..its written in the Canon and Sony Manual :-) }

{The Good - Aaah look how crisp this is! woot!}

Anyway i can't believe I forgot about another major milestone that I passed on January  31st, as that marks the day I made the trip from NC - TN for the last time. (as a NC resident).

I CANNOT.BELIEVE. I've been in TN and entire year..and not only that but am loving it. I can still remember the emotions I felt when my father told me he was moving our family to TN. One word. Devastated. I was/am a homebody, I dislike traveling, I'd be just as happy to spend my entire life in one place. But to top it off, not only were we leaving my home of 18 years, but we were moving to a city that was on my top 10 places that I never wanted to move.

I'd pretty much determined that I was going to stay in NC, no matter what, I'd do whatever for whoever just as long as I didn't have to leave my friends, church family, job, school etc..

It took about two years for me to come to the realization that, staying wasn't possible on my salary, and two God finally got it into my head, that it just may not be his will that I stay in NC. (ooh well in that case TN here I Come!) I can still remember the surprise in peoples voices when I calmly brought up the fact that I was moving. (Did I mention how vehemently I expressed to everyone who asked how I was NOT.MOVING.EVER!)


But once I'd started to realize that this was indeed going to happen, I realized there were many other obstacles that I had to face...

1. Where was I going to live? My parents were staying in the Church's Parsonage, and they were very cramped, so adding myself and my two dogs (at the time) in there just wasn't going to be easy.
2. Work! Trying to find work, while knowing where nothing was located was difficult, but I diligently got on jobs sights daily, checking out the scene. 
3. What about School? *shudders*

The ball started rolling once, I received a job offer from a local service dog organization about 30 minutes out of the city-that-shall-not-be-named and dad then finally giving permission to move into a small house on the edge of the churches property. Hmm my own house..no rent....? Suddenly moving to CTCBN was looking better and better...After receiving the position with Wilderwood, I packed up my meager belongings...(<--Sarcasm) and moved into my new home.

The house had much to be desired..for one thing no heat. My first night in it, my temperature gauge registered 9 degrees. Inside. 

The next day I went out and bought a couple of heaters and that moved the temp up too about 50. 

Fun Times i tell you.

But we've had fun this house and I....14 dogs, a excruciatingly hot summer (85 during the day..oh yeah the A/C broke), learning to cook on a faulty stove, and so.much.more...! *gasps* It has become my haven. It taught to count my blessings, and I am going to miss this place, once I finally get moved.

Learning my way around this fair city was an adventure in and of it self, but thankfully I have a really good sense of direction, and only managed to get turned around a couple of times. 

Now I pretty know how to get anywhere within the city limits...on major streets anyway, I still have not un-earthed the many back roads etc..that lie around here.. *shudders* I've made a lot of new friends and deepend old friendships that have been made in the past. 

You could have never told me I'd feel like this two.....three years ago. 

I guess that just leaves one last thing to say. 

....GO VOLS!!! =)