I’ve made some progress with the Artwork page (although it’s been far more difficult than I thought).  I tried implementing a couple of things that just didn’t work but I think I now know exactly what direction I’m going to take it in.  It’s kind of a mess at the moment but soon it should look presentable.

Mom and I played “Carol of the Bells” at the Christmas Eve service tonight.  She played piano and I played on the keyboard.  The keyboard was set with choir vocals on the left hand and violin on the right.  I was a lot more nervous than I thought I would be but we played it really well.  We got a decent applause which was kind of a surprise since the service hadn’t even officially started yet at that time.  It was fun to perform music again after so many months off.

Tera and I are going to watch Rudolph and probably go to bed.  We’re going to my parents at 8am tomorrow, then my uncles and Kay are coming down around lunchtime, then we’re going to her mom’s at 2pm.  I’m  still trying to get into the Christmas mood.  With my luck it will be December 26th when I really get excited.

I had an amazing lunch today at The Forum.  The Tech team went for our Christmas lunch and I had marinated chicken, fries, and mashed potatoes.  It took a long time to get our food but it was well worth it.  Until a few weeks  ago I hadn’t been to The Forum in years.  Now, after going twice in the last month, I’m trying to figure out why I never went more often.

My parents and I met Tera in Marietta today and stopped by my uncles’ and Geneva’s to check out their Christmas stuff.  The trip seemed quick but it was fun.  At one point we were sitting at a red light when I looked over to see Santa Claus in very old, very beat up pickup truck.  Hilarious.

I changed the Media page to Artwork but not much visible is showing up yet.  I’m currently working on getting most my artwork to the server.  Hopefully, there should be something up either before or over the weekend.  I had forgotten just how deep those folders went.  I actually have over 120 files which is about 80 more than I thought.  Considering there were some nights over the summer when I would crank out 5-10 I probably shouldn’t have been as surprised.

Tera and I watched “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” late tonight on Netflix.  Great movie.  I had only seen parts but never from start to finish.  You truly cannot got wrong with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.  We both gave it 5 stars.

I made a few tweaks to the site tonight.  The biggest change on the way is going to be the death of the Media page.  For it’s entire life it has been misunderstood and neglected.  It has had many purposes and always stretched to handle what needed to be done.  Still, the time is coming for it to go away once and for all.  I would do it tonight…but I’m tired.

Resource Systems has been absolutely amazing.  I love being able to honestly say I have days where I get up in the morning and cannot wait to go to work.  It may sound disgustingly wrong to some people but it’s true.  I’m over halfway through my internship/probation and everything is pointing to a full-time position on February 1st.

Since the last update Tera and I have also been working to buy a house.  We ended up getting into a minor bidding war over it but won and are hoping to be moving in either at the end of January or early February.

Christmas is tomorrow with the Callihan side of the family. I’m sure that will be an interesting time.

The past few weeks have been pretty hectic.  I spent some time trying to prepare for my first week at Resource Systems and before I knew it my first day had arrived.  I actually finished my first week (5 days) today.  Looking back I don’t see how it could have gone much better.  Everyone there is amazing and incredibly supportive.  Today was fun as I made a few jaws drop when telling people about the work I was already into.  I think I’m coming along much quicker than they expected which is a good thing.  I don’t feel like I’ve taken on too much but I feel very busy.

Windows 7 is finally available and I need to get it.  The only problem is that there is no machine that I really feel comfortable with installing it on.  My tablet is in decent shape but is not quite up to par when it comes to specifications and our desktop is kind of the same way.  I would say that it might be time to get a new computer but we just got the 360 and tv so another big purchase is out of the question for now.

Tera and I have been watching a couple of movies on the 360 through Netflix.  We watched Flatliners and Prom Night.  Both were decent movies but not as good as expected.  I had high hopes for Flatliners but it just wasn’t very suspenseful.  Prom Night didn’t seem to be to great going in and didn’t do much to make a case for itself as being very good.  The Netflix system is nice though and the streaming quality has been impressive.

Time to get some sleep for tomorrow.

I had a pretty amazing weekend.  On Saturday, Tera and I met with Jake and his fiancee (can’t remember her name) to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and play some glow putt.  The movie was ok.  I didn’t expect much but it was fine for what it was.  What really seemed extreme was the amount of trailers shown before the actual movie.  There were about 6-7 trailers that took up a little over 20 minutes.  I wasn’t happy.  Glow putt was more fun.  We didn’t keep score but we all did about the same.

Tera and I got back to Cambridge and she said she wanted me to carry something up that was in the trunk of her car.  I opened it up to find a new Xbox 360 she bought me for getting my new job.  At first I was kind of in shock that she bought it but once it wore off I was extremely excited.  Instead of messing with the old TV we decided it was time to finally get a new high def TV.  We went to Walmart and got a Vizio which has been amazing so far.  The only game I have is Madden 10 so Scott and I have been playing that online.

I stopped by Muskingum today to check in with CNS and see Andy to give him his groomsman gifts.  It was nice seeing some people that I haven’t seen in awhile but when it comes to Muskingum as a whole I don’t think I miss it.  I thought that I would but I’m happy to be done there.

Have to clean up the apartment from the mess that was the weekend.  There are boxes and papers all over the place.

It seems that’s the case.  The last group of updates was following Tera getting her new job and now this one is because I finally…FINALLY…got mine.  Resource Systems here I come!  It took an extremely long (but well worth it) interview process but I’ve finally made it.  I’ll be an intern for awhile to make sure everything fits well.  As long as everything works out I will get a full time position.

In addition to getting a job, September 19th marked the end of my life (according to my fantastic group of friends) and Tera and I’s wedding.  It went great and I’ll have to get pictures posted sometime soon.

I seem to be slacking on updates but I haven’t vanished yet.  Tera got a new job as a dental assistant in Marietta (aka the big news) which is awesome.  She loves it so far and it will be far superior to working insane hours at Salt Fork.

We saw “Drag Me to Hell” a few nights ago and it was amazing.  Easily the best horror movie I can remember seeing recently.  It seemed to have a bit of everything.  I was skeptical even though the reviews were incredibly positive but it lived up to the hype and more.

The NBA and NHL are each in the finals.  I haven’t watched much hockey recently but I’ve still been watching basketball.  I’m still picking the Red Wings over the Pens in 6 for the NHL finals.  As for the NBA, I’d probably say Lakers in 5 over the Magic.  I hope it’s closer than that but I don’t think it’s going to happen that way.

I’ve been doing a ton of photoshopping recently.  I’ve had a lot of images turn out extremely good.  It’s kept me busy which is something I need.  Time to call it a night.

For some BIG news…

Not much new has been going on.  I’ve been busy getting moved out of New Concord and continuing the job search.  That’s been about it.

Today was fun.  Scott came down after church and we watched the Indy 500.  The race was good even though Marco Andretti (who I wanted to win) didn’t even complete a lap before crashing.  Helio Castroneves won by a large margin at the end so it wasn’t a very exciting finish.  Overall, it was well worth taking the time to watch it all afternoon.

We went to Seneca Lake after the race to meet up with some of Tera’s family at her mom’s camper.  Thunder boomed a couple of times but no rain.  There was chicken and hot dogs grilling but I still wasn’t hungry from lunch so I just had a piece of Kennedy’s cake.

Time to sit back watch the rest of the Cavs/Magic game.