Archive for February, 2007
Last night I took Braylen to go see Seasame Street Live at the Fox Theater in Detroit. We were 7 rows from the stage. Braylen was beyond wonderful and seemed to enjoy all the excitement of the show. Although, at times he took more interest in the overheard lighting then what was happening in the show. Who would have thought I’d enjoy and evening of 10 foot tall puppets and a couple thousands kids??? But I did. Probably more because I was spening time with Braylen. I would say the show was good for kids 1 year to 5 years old. I actually think the 1 years old were more attentive to the show then the older ones and I regret not taking Braylen much sooner.
Here’s a few pics of the evening.
The cast: 
Braylen with his new toy.
On the way home:
February 25th, 2007
We wish Jordan a speedy recovery and hope she feels better real soon.
February 20th, 2007
Well as it closes in on my 6 month anniversary since I’ve been down here I thought I would give a little update.
Apartment. My lease term is coming up for renewal and I received a new contract. Of course this one is for 45 more dollars each month. If moving wouldn’t be such a pain (or me just being lazy) I would try to move. But between moving and just trying to find an apartment that isn’t disgusting down here probably wouldn’t be worth it. So I have decided to go ahead and sign on for another 6 months.
Church. I went to a Luthern church a few months ago that just didn’t hit me as a church that I would want to call home. Yesterday I ventured out again to try to find a good Luthern church buried in a sea of Baptist churchs. Well I can say that I found an awesome one. It is called Christ the King http://www.ctklutheran.org/index.htm. It is a very large newer church. The age range in there really seemed to be mixed. There was young families to senior citizens and everything in the middle. The pastor seemed like a really good guy and delivered a very useful sermon. I plan on attending next week and see where that takes me.
Weather. Ok I know I won’t get any sympathy from my Northern family but it has been very cold this past week with tempatures not getting out of the low 40’s. On Saturday I went to the local park to do some walking/jogging and with the wind blowing pretty hard I found myself very cold. But not to worry this week we are suppose to get back into the the 60’s and maybe even touch 70.
School. I have three weeks of my online Accounting class left which can’t get here fast enough. I just found out last week some good news that I can take my final exam down here in Georgia which was to be an on campus test in Michigan. The bad news is with posting that the test is to be a closed book no notes test. Which for Accounting is going to be very difficult. There are a lot of formula’s and things of that nature that I know I can’t possibly compute to memory. So I will just do my best. Currently my grade is a 84.562%. The second eight weeks I have two classes scheduled. One english and one history class both of which will be online through Macomb.
Job. Last week I was asked to speak for a couple of minutes in the Sales meeting on a new project that I’m working on. I had a conference call that morning so I only went to the meeting at the end where my time slot was scheduled. When I got there I had a few minutes before my part to get comfortable to the room. When I was up, I got introduced to the team (have met most of them already) and my BIG boss said that he was going to steal my first minute of time. He proceeded to say some extermely nice things about me. He said that I am the best thing the warehouse has seen in 21 years. He said that I have uncovered things that people didn’t even know existed and that I am not afraid to take them head on. He also went on to say that I have renewed energy to not only the warehouse but to the entire company down here. WOW that was a lot to take in.
Later in the week there was a meeting at one of our smaller branches in Covington, GA where some warehouse issues came up. Well my boss brought my name up as someone who has done a lot of great things here and that I might be able to help them out as well. So hopefully this week I will be contacting Covington and setting some trips down there. They want me to help set up the warehouse and assit them in running some reports to keep things in order. As Jodi knows this is exactly the kind of steps that I’m looking to take. I want to have some type of involvement in all of the branches that are here in Georgia which equals 4. So I have control of this one in Norcross, will start to get my feet wet in Covington which will leave just two more to work on.
Family. Last week I had a really long day as I found myself just missing Jodi and Braylen something awfull. I can’t wait until there are here full time and I don’t have to rely on a couple of phone calls each day to get my fix. I miss my family very much and I’m counting the days until they come back down in the middle of March.
February 19th, 2007
February 14th, 2007
Happy Birthday Grandpa !!!!
Hugs,
Braylen
February 14th, 2007
Rich’s 60th Birthday
February 14th, 2007
Two weeks ago I purchased a new ceiling light for our master bedroom, on-line. When I first saw the fixture, it was on sale, but a little expensive, so I decided to continue browsing. A couple days later I saw that the ceiling light I originally liked was now on clearance at half price, so I decided to order. It arrived and Rich went to install it, but found there were not instructions and no picture included. (We had to keep running to look at it on-line.) Well, he tried three different times, but it just didn’t look right. The bowl of the light was up too close to the ceiling covering all the lovely metal scrolling. I called the company the next day. The very helpful young woman I spoke with said they wouldn’t want me to return it because it was a clearance item and they had no use for it, but they would issue me a credit. I could then either keep the light or get rid of it. We figured out what the light needed, spent a couple bucks to replace the too short part with a longer one, and now our new FREE ceiling light looks just great!
Last week, after shreding a small pile of papers we no longer needed, our shredder quit running. It would run in reverse, but it wouldn’t shred. Years ago we purchased a shredder that was still running, when we decided to get a cross cut shredder. The first one we purchased was a cheaper one, though it cost twice what we paid for the old regular shredder. The first cross cut shredder lasted about two months. The blades actually became mangled inside. Well, we decided to purchase a much better, and more expensive coss cut shredder. So when it stopped running, Rich tried oiling it, cleaning it, and dismantling it, but still nothing happened. So, today he called the company to see what we could do to get it repaired. Needless to say, they are sending us a NEW shredder in about a week!!
February 5th, 2007
