okay, so everyone is wondering about my new job. I guess since i’m there i can talk about it now.

I’m pretty much doing the same thing i was doing at Bank of America. for those of you that didnt know (mandi) yes, i worked for Bank of America. for about 10 months as a consultant, and then from april through last week as an associate.

Now i’m at Wachovia (for some reason i heard someone call it the wawa). Its pretty rockin. The cube designs are all artsy and the building is really nice (wood paneling in the elevators for example).

I’m still doing similar work which includes: Interaction Design, Long term strategy planning, UI design, information architecture….fun stuff.

If you havent played with Adobe Flex, i recommend it.
http://flex.org/showcase/
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/

I started messin with it and built a sweet lookin app in like 10 minutes. granted it wasnt hooked up to a datasource, but i’m sure its easy.

ALright, season premier of Office is now starting. gotta go!!!

So last weekend was a rockin good football weekend. Gators won, Longhorns won, Cowboys won, Bucs won. 4 for 4. Tony Romo is ridic good right now. hope he can keep it up.

In case you didnt know, I started a new job at a new bank Monday. Wachovia is now my new home. Went from the blue and red to the blue and green.

Ran a treadmill 5k tonight. actually ran one last saturday also. time saturday: 37:34. time tonight: 34:27. WOOHOO! my legs are now killing me, but s’all good. not wakeboarding tomorrow so i need some exercise.

i cant believe The Office is now in syndication. TBS has it at 10 and 10:30. how sweet is that? I’m watching it right now if you couldnt guess. I’m also full of fruit, cuz i was hungry after running.

okay, now time for sleep. goodnight

Just got back last night from Gatlinburg TN. Awesome time…went for Joe N’s 30th birthday. Awesome cabin, awesome hiking, awesome food…did i say it was awesome? Leah had a great time there. drive was only about 4 hours which wasnt too bad. Except the morons in charge of NC roadways are complete idiots!!! they closed down I77 last night about 9 o clock…isnt roadwork supposed to happen at like 2am when there are barely any cars on? Not here. and there was this one &@#$# semi that decided to be a complete @#&@# and drive in both lanes all the way up until the merge just so smaller faster cars couldnt pass and thereby causing more traffic jams cuz two lanes backed up. I never wanted car missiles so bad in my life!! i couldnt believe it. so next chance i got with an on ramp i passed him, but seriously what a @#^@&. Angelle was super happy with the whole situation.

But besides that Gatlinburg was pretty sweet. Oh, and the gators beating Tennessee was also ridic sweet. Gary and Maria had a question for people with “T” shirts on…”Is the T for Tim? or Tebow?” needless to say, they loved the question.

Leah was awesome on our hike. it was 1.2 mile hike to Grotto Falls and i had leah in the hiking backpack, and angelle had erin in her wrap. it was really a great hike. the girls did awesome, and me and leah had fun splashing around in the water at the bottom of the falls.

WE also played a bunch of poker. I played horribly and joe someone got lucky in every hand he played in. I of course folded a 10-J which would have scored only a full house if i had played it.

The cabin itself was awesome. 5 bedrooms, a gameroom at the bottom with pool table, big screen tv, galaga/pacman, poker table, air hockey, foosball, and each story had a deck in the back. each room had a bathroom and there was a full kitchen. really great vacation place. Gatlinburg Falls Resort if you want to visit it yourself.

ERin was fussy every night from about 8-10 or so. but other than that she was great.

White water rafting was closed cuz of lack of water, but maybe next time.

Alright, time to head to preschool. Lates

Happy new year to all! hope everyone enjoyed their apples and honey. Leah definitely did.

She also said something funny this morning. I was getting her ready to leave for school, and i was singing, and she told me “Hush it up”. i guess angelle says that to her. i was laughing.

Kids are cute. when they’re not crying. Seriously, when you’re tired, you go to sleep!!! you dont cry and keep yourself up?! one of the great mysteries of life i guess…

Things that bug me:
1. Crying babies
2. Slow drivers in the left lane
3. Over an hour commute
4. Sore muscles
5. Feeling tired
6. Other peoples’ kids

Things that make me smile:
1. Leah’s art projects
2. Leah running up to my car when i get home saying “Daddy!”
3. Erin sleeping
4. Angelle looking at Leah or Erin sleeping
5. Football season
6. Skateparks
7. Wakeboarding
8. Stars of David music