the Wawa

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!!!

football and banks

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

Iceberg? Rosenberg? Gatlinburg.

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

L'shana Tova!

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...

Today's lists

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

Rollerblading is NOT dead

at least not for me. Found a decent little skatepark in charlotte today. also got new skates for the first time in like 10 years. its about time. Now i need to go tear up charlotte (and not get arrested).

It was fun skating with a bunch of 12 year olds. (note the sarcasm). they didnt speak english and they were skateboarders. We had some communication issues.

In other news, we had a sweet bbq at the Maddexes tonight. there was about 8 couples and like 15 kids. it was crazy. kids had a good time, and cuz there was so many kids we actually got to have some adult time.

Oh yeah, G and Myrn are visiting right now (angelle's dad/step mom). They're having a great time with Lean and Erin.

MMM, what else...Go Gators!! poor michigan. good to see Spurrier beat Georgia.

guess thats it for now.

Leah-isms as of late

Leah has been saying some funny/cute stuff lately.

In the car this morning on the way to pre-school, i had to slam on the breaks cuz the guy in front of me did also, and she said "Oh Geez!". i laughed pretty hard at that one.

Also, i played this song on my ipod that she likes, and she heard it and said "I cant believe it! I cant believe its this song". super funny. an aside: the song is 'Shofar So Good' off the new Stars of David album. John has most of the music done, i'm still working on lyrics though.

Not sure if Ang has blogged about this one, but Leah often spouts "I have a really really g[r]eat idea!" sometimes her great idea is to do a puzzle, sometimes its to have a popsicle...its hilarious to wait and hear what her great idea is though. Shes such a trip.

2 year olds are definitely loads of fun. they can definitely pitch a fit when they dont get what they want immediately, but they are mostly all smiles and fun. the silliest things are exciting to them which is awesome. you dont really have to try that hard, just as long as you're paying attention to them or teaching them something new they're excited.

its back...

Wakeboarding Wednesday is back!! Angelle is a peach. She had the kids all day and didnt mind me going wakeboarding. What a super wife i have. AND she found time to clean the house. she gets a gold star in my book.

Riding tonight was so awesome after not going for a few weeks. Weather was warm, water was warm, lake was calm...perfect. I felt out of practice, but still threw some crazy tricks. Tried the backroll again, but didnt come any closer than last time. Also attempted what I thought was a 360 (which is hard because you have to handle pass) but apparently i spinned too much and they said it looked like a 720 or a mobius. I dunnno. wish i caught it on video so i could see what it looked like.

This new guy came out and he apparently was a competitive collegiate gymnast and pro wakeboarder. He was totally ridiculous...in one pass he probably landed like 8 crazy hard tricks. Inverted grabbed spins. So sick. super fun to watch and a nice guy too. he helped us all out with what we were doing wrong. which was a lot. :)

But yeah, great to get back out on the lake. So made me want to get a boat. I want to ride 4 times a week, not just 1. I think i realized that its worth it to have a boat, and not a new car. so, that will be the future savings plan. WE had planned to get one in florida, and i think that plan is back.

so maybe after Hive tokyo drift, hive will drift back to NC and we can hit the lake on our boat. here's hoping...

Cul-de-sac Skating

Since i havent been wakeboarding the past few weeks, I figured it was time to drag the ramps out for some street skating, 1995 style.



Angelle wouldnt film me unless i wore pads. I said, 'isnt that what insurance is for?'