Jacksonville's great, blah blah blah, but I'm so ready to come home for Christmas.  I'll be home the 17th, kids!  My roommate Rianna is driving me home because it is saving her $200 on a plane ticket to Iowa, and she can get a direct flight from ATL.  Awesome.  And she has a friend in Lawrenceville that she's staying with Sunday night since her ( Read more... )

Anyone wanna move with me to Virginia Beach/Norfolk area next year?  That's where Brian's being sent, and I find very few reasons as to why I shouldn't move there.

Holy crap, dawgs, holy crap. So the game we all thought they were gonna lose.. they win. And games they were supposed to win (*cough*Kentucky*cough*Vandy*coughcough*), they lose. But a win over Auburn? I'll take it! Since I'm always at work during these day games, I tried to call my mom right before my 3:30 meeting to see how we were doing. ( Read more... )

It's Halloween and I couldn't find my cat-ear headband (we were allowed to dress up at work, but only a few did since it's kinda hard to work in costumes).  I missed out on the GA/FL madness around here, but that's okay.  I totally surprised my mother by coming back into town for her birthday.  She had about 50 people at her surprise party.. it was ( Read more... )

Oh man, last week was nuts!  So one day, Rianna lost the trailer off the back of the truck while she was driving it (luckily she was still in the neighborhood).  Then another day one of the framers fell off the roof (he's okay).  My supervisor's purse got stolen out of her car on Thursday while she made a 5-minute site visit (her fault for not ( Read more... )

AirTran rocks my socks off.  So I'm going home over UGA's Fall Break for something for my mom (shh, it's a surprise...).  Anyway, I just bought a ticket back from ATL to Jax for $37 after fees and all.  I was gonna buy one for the way up, but my sister told me I can't stay at our house on Thursday night (and the special rate isn't for weekends ( Read more... )

So perhaps I should update this, now that we have internet in the house and all.  It feels weird giving some news update to everyone when it's not really news to me any more.  We had our first week of training last week.  I learned how to start a pressure washer, blue-board a house, install a window, put up siding, and do what the frame team tells ( Read more... )

I feel like a bouncy ball.  Georgia, Florida, Georgia, back to Florida to move there, then to Rock Eagle for our orientation ("AmeriCamp").  While my mom and I were traversing Florida, we made a stop by the HabiJax office.  I met some of the people, and I got to see one of the houses I might live in (yes, I'm moving there in a week and they still ( Read more... )

So the wedding and Charleston were both great.  I took 240 pictures throughout the week . . . craziness.  On Day One of Charleston, we went to a 1A baseball game and I got a foul ball.  I'd like to say that I caught it, but instead it bounced off the roof and then came down to the seats and I was the only one around.  But I still got it.  The ( Read more... )

Well I tried, and Friday was by most counts not my day.  I've wanted to vote in this primary election, be a responsible citizen, etcetera, whatever.  There were so many candidates for everything and I hadn't even decided which party's ticket vote.  I finally figured everything out and was ready to do advanced voting at City Hall yesterday.  I even ( Read more... )