Ok, so I know that I haven’t blogged in  WHILE… I’m sorry!!!!   My sis has been bugging me and I have been lazy, and then today she revamped the look of my page.. and it’s AMAZING!!! So I just HAD to get on here and post something   Thanks Becca, YOU ROCK!!!

So what’s been going on in my life?  Well a ton!  As I wrote about earlier, I got a new job, I’m the Operations Development Manager for ACS DISH Network in Roanoke, Virginia.  They keep me pretty busy, but I LOVE it!!

4th of July

Since I started a new job, I don’t get any days off this year (except holidays) so I have had to plan all my “vacations” around holidays.  So for my July 4th three day weekend, Jonathan and I went to Jacksonville, NC to visit Natasha & Patrick and their daughter Justice.  It was a wonderful vacation, we did sooo much.  When we got there (around 11:30pm) Natasha & Patrick got a roaring bon fire going and we sat around and caught up till around 3 am.  Then we got up early (around 9) to head to the beach.  We got some grub on the way back, and then they had some friends over and we ordered the UFC fight.  It was great getting to meet so many nice people.  Then went to the beach AGAIN the next day, then went to a cook out at their friends’ (Louise & Keith Connor) cookout.  Then we left from there and got to see the 4th of July fireworks.  It was great!!

Etsy

So I really would like to start working on my art again.  It’s been a long time.  I took art 1-4 in high school and was even the president of the Art Club my senior year.  My senior year I got to spend soooo much time on art!  The second semester I had Art 4 before lunch and I was an Art aide for the period after lunch, so usually I would just eat lunch in the back office and work on art for 2 1/2 hours every day, only every once in a while did have to “help” during my Art aide period.  It was a great time, I really wanted to take some art classes while at Virginia Tech, but they were all REALLY had to get into, most were closed off to anyone except art majors… boooooo. 

So why is the title of this section Etsy?  Well like I said I really want to start working on my art again and I thought after I paint a couple paintings I’m going to put them up for sale on Etsy.com and see what happens.  If they don’t sell, oh well, because I’m going to make ones that would fit good around our house anyway, but if they do, GREAT and I can make more to replenish the ones I make.  I am probably going out this weekend to get some supplies.  I have some great ideas, so after I make a couple I will definitely post some pics of them here for everyone to see.

Skype

Ok ok… I know that Skype has been around a while and plenty of people have been using it for a while now, but I’m new to the whole Skype thing.  When I first joined ACS I had to create my first Skype account for work, because we use it like an internal messaging service within the company and it is how we also communicate with our laptop techs (typing, not video chatting).  Well then Becca & Jacob were getting ready to move to Connecticut (Becca is going to YALE to get her PhD!!  SOOO PROUD) and she suggested that we get Skype to video chat with her.  I thought to myself, well this will be fun every once in a while.  I was sooooo wrong.  It’s SO AMAZING!!!  It’s hard not seeing my baby sis for long periods of time, and now I get to see her & Jacob’s face every couple days… I can’t describe how great it is!!!  I really suggest that if anyone has someone that means a lot to them, and they don’t live close by, GET SKYPE… it’s really great just getting to see her face while talking, it’s like she is right here, and when she is working on a sewing project or something, she can just hold it up and I can see it, instead of describing it to me, and me still having no clue what she is talking about.  LOL … so moral of the story, Skype = Awesome!!