best week ever

so guess who's having the best week ever? that would most definitely be me!

this week:
sun: christmas!! (that one's pretty self-explanatory)
mon: i went on a date with an extremely nice guy (that's right folks, a date.. i'm particularly happy about this)
tue: pretty laid back, nothing exciting there
wed: went out to dinner in wilkes-barre with my ENTIRE family.. all 6 of us (which is quite an entertaining experience).. then out for coffee with my sisters
thursday: probably not much today, packing mostly because...
friday: i'm leaving for tennessee!!!!!!! a 10 hour drive.. yessss!!!
saturday: my ass is going to be somewhere in the middle of the smoky mountains with jenna and the rest of the night in knoxville. i can't think of a better way to end the year!

thank you 2005.. you were a good one

happy easter!

so christmas is going wonderfully! i'm loving my new ipod, everyone's enjoying their gifts, lots of movies have been watched in the living room.. all 6 of us together.. it's nice. tonight's steak and twice baked potatoes, earlier we had clam chowder.. it was delicious, yesterday was nik's bday.. overall a lovely weekend.

after talking to bryan the other day i was contemplating going to lancaster for some reunion thingy, but i think i'm just going to chill at home. my dad's leaving in a couple weeks, and with me being gone for new years, i think we're doing more family togetherness stuff. plus i've got a ton of errands and stuff that i've been putting off.. like an oil change among other things, seeing as how i won't have another day off at home for awhile.

so that's about it.. my dad wants to show me how to grill a perfect steak.

later

it's official

i officially have off 12/30-1/2.. at which time i will be in TENNESSEE visiting jenna!!

i'm quite excited! :-D

clients (think they) know best

i HATE when clients think they're designers...

'hmm.. i think we need some more drop shadows, and maybe some different glow effects on the text, and make it look kind of embossed, with some gradients or something.. but keep it clean and simple'

riiiiiiiight...

*sigh*

i love massachusetts. someday i will live there.

this weekend was SO quick! it makes me realize how much i miss my grandparents. the weekend was a bit overly dramatic, due to various issues and relations, but the drive was worth it.

i think i love driving almost as much as i love massachusetts.

EDIT: also, nikki (my youngest sister) has mono and viral hepatitis and is in pretty bad shape. really really weak, just super sick. so if any of you guys pray at all, if you could say a few for her, that'd be kinda nice. her bday is xmas eve and she's going to be sick through her bday and christmas and probably new years so we're just trying to keep her cheered up and trying to keep her comfy. i gave her her presents early and she was too weak to even open the box. poor nik-the-nak. :-( she's my little buddy.

Attaché

if anyone's interested, you can see the two ads i made in this month's issue of Attaché for USAirways.

go here and download the PDF. My ads are on page three. i really wish they would have placed the wilkes-barre ad underneath the hazleton ad, but oh well.. i'm just excited it was printed!

that's it for now

you are over 18, aren't you?

conversation with the grouchy old cashier at walmart as i was purchasing cold medicine (which included 1 bottle of day-quil, 1 box of advil cold & sinus, and cough drops)

me: coughing
grouchy lady: (stops mid-scan and stares at me) you are over 18, aren't you?
me: (a little surprised) uh, yeah, do you need my id?
grouchy lady: yes. (very short and rude-like)
me: cough some more, hand her my id
grouchy lady: (peers over glasses, studies my id, peers over glasses again) that's an awful lot of cold medicine
me: (cough again) yeah, i have a cold
grouchy lady: i would say so!

...hmm. maybe i should've told her about the meth-lab down in my basement..