Thursday, August 28, 2008

Expressions

 

 

 


Some of the many faces of Jennifer. See the whole mosaic of them here.

Trip out to Reading this week for work = tiring.

Flight back = delayed.

Catching up on "real" work when I got back = overwhelming.

Night at home without John = boring.

Just over a week until we go to Vegas = exciting.

And now you're caught up.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Thought of E today...

...when doing the Word Roundup on usatoday.com:

Monday, August 25, 2008

Music

My latest musical obsession are The Fratellis. My favorite song is Flathead with Everyone Knows You Cried Last Night as a VERY close runner-up.

I've recently had a BIG falling out with my iPod (don't ask, but it might lead to be giving up the iPod for good and switching to some other mp3 player), so I was happy John sent me the links to those songs so I could listen to them here in the hotel room in Reading, PA. I'm here until Wednesday... the training class is going well - Joe's doing the teaching and I'm doing the walking-around-and-helping thing. it's a good combination.

The end.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Sleepy Myles and various updates

 


How could you not fall in love with this cutie?

Anyway. Life is good in the Jacobs/DeBacco household. I've still been taking a lot of pictures, and have finally started working on my editing skills, though I am far (far!) from an expert.

Two weeks from today, John and I leave for a week in Vegas. Turns out we're there longer than we really have to be - the conference doesn't actually start until Tuesday and ends Friday at noon, so we could have flown out Sunday and still had 2 days to ourselves, but instead we're flying out Saturday. Plus, we could have flown back friday afternoon instead of taking the redeye friday night. But, I'm sure we'll find things to do ... including, hopefully, getting together with Tim (my cousin), who lives down there.

This also means that two weeks from now is when we finally move into the new building at work! I'm really looking forward to walking and riding my bike to work... and looking forward to saving money on my car insurance because of it! I'm also excited to be moving into a LEED-certified building (and looking forward to seeing the things they've done)... a building with a cafeteria! And a fitness room! ... slightly sad about our cubes being smaller, and slightly sad about who I'll be sitting by... but overall, very happy about the move.

Speaking of work, it has provided some great friends for John and I. I didn't have many friends when married and I didn't make many more before I started dating John. John was still in college at the time, so we had his group of friends, but as they all started graduating and moving on, we found we had fewer friends around... and then I just happened so stumble into some of the nicest, funniest and geniunely good people around. I enjoy working with them, and enjoy hanging out with them outside of work, too. There's about a decade that separates us all in age (and I'm not the oldest!!! Bryan's older! And his wife is, too!), but it doesn't seem to matter (I'm not sure if that means the younger ones are more mature, or if that's saying something about Bryan and I...)

Currently John and I are trying to slowly do more things to make this house more "us". Which is hard, since I hate spending money. We've done a lot of little projects that aren't really noticable, but I've also recently gotten a lead on a person to do our kitchen remodel. Sometimes I feel bad for John because he moved into MY house ... really, so much of a dream house for me, and while he has "his" rooms (the poker room and the basement), it's still him living in "my" house. I know he'd much prefer a new construction house, and it makes me wonder how long I really will live here, or if I'll eventually sell this house so that we can buy a new house together that's OURS. Meh... I'm content living out MY dreams for now :)

Also. E, you really need to post a new entry. Srsly. :)
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Three pictures

A fun one I took/edited of myself... the new TV stand... and some new tea!

 

 

 
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Friday, August 08, 2008

All the pictures have been uploaded!

I still can't figure out this posting-from-picasa thing. I swear I selected 6 or 7 pictures to show you, but I only see the html for 4 pictures below... and I don't know which ones it chose! Oh well, I guess I'll see when I post it! Anyway, the goal of this post was to show you a small selection of my favorite pics from Gillette Castle, which was the last bunch of pictures I had to upload from the trip! yay!

so, that means I narrowed down my 276 pictures to just (just!) 93, and those are all in this photo album! You can either click that link to browse the pictures yourself, or see them all as a slideshow here.

 

 

 

 
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Mystic

some of my favorite of the bunch of pictures from Mystic. There are more on my flickr. Once I'm done uploading all the pictures from CT, I'll put up a link to another slideshow, so this is just a sneak peek:

 

 

 

 
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Saturday, August 02, 2008

Shady Glen

 
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Oh, this worked! I've tried posting directly from Picasa before, but it's never worked for me! Now that it works, you'll probably get a lot more pictures in here than before. I know you're all excited.