Happy Thanksgiving

I have a lot to be thankful for this year.
I am back home and get to spend the holidays with my family.
Everyone is happy and healthy.
And, it looks like I will be getting a full-time position in the next couple of months. I had a meeting with the news director and executive producer yesterday to touch base and talk about filling in during the holidays. I will definitely be filling in during Christmas week and then who knows what lies ahead, but it is looking up. I will keep you posted on how everything unfolds.

Outside of the newsroom... everything continues to be great. I will be getting off work in about a half hour and plan to stop by one of the parks were Drew and some friends and family are playing Frisbee golf. Then, it's home to nap and get ready for dinner. My aunt is coming over, Kevin is bringing one of his housemates and Drew will be stopping by at some point. Then later on, the plan is to go see "The Blind Side" with Sandra Bullock. Other than all of that, it should be a relaxing day.

For all of my Theta readers out there, I made the Nestle Tollhouse pie from the recipe book. I will obviously not be eating it, but I will let you know how it goes over with everyone else.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Ugly

For those of you following my team's volleyball status, the title of the blog says it all: UGLY!
Boy, did we play terrible Monday night. It was as though we regressed in our progress as a team. And the frustrating part is, it wasn't one area that we had trouble in. We had issues with everything: serving, hitting, passing... It reminded me why I have a love-hate feeling towards the game. I have to keep telling myself that it's just a game...for fun.

Where does the time go?

I was doing so well updating this blog and then bam! it slipped my mind. Well, here I am. It's been a fun and busy two weeks of work, tailgating, and volleyball. The Bengals are kicking butt and making Sunday's a lot of fun. Here are some pictures from the game two weeks ago against the Baltimore Ravens.
I have my third indoor volleyball game tonight. So far we are 1 and 1. The first game was great. We played awesome, but the team we played against wasn't the most athletic. Last weeks game was probably the most competitive game we've played so far (including last session). The disappointing part is we could have and should have won. This facility has referees and they aren't consistent at all. The ref for this particular game was all about blowing her whistle one sets (that wouldn't even be called in high school) and it cost us a lot of points. What made it worse was the team was made up of all adults. There is nothing wrong with playing against older people, I just flat out hate to lose and the fact that I lost to people older than my parents, well that doesn't help. Hopefully tonight's game has a better ending, or at least is a legitimate loss.
Work is going well too. t sounds like I will get to produce my own one hour show the week of Christmas. I'm not sure how many days I will be producing or what morning hour, but I am excited to have the opportunity. And, I am excited to see where the opportunity leads to. I have quite a few things to better understand and get acquainted with, but I still have some time to practice before the time comes.

Goodbye October

For those of you have been following my blog for a while now, you may remember that this time last year I was let go from my job. It's amazing how much has changed since then and I can't imagine where I would be if I hadn't taken the risk and moved across the country. Then decided to move back home. I've grown a lot and am looking forward to the next chapters of my life. Needless to say, I was not going to let another Halloween pass by without a little fun. I attempted to celebrate the evening dressed as the Queen of Pop, Madonna (Like A Virgin) and my good friend Renae was Mrs. Incredible. And yes, that is a sumo wrestler in the background ;)(I should add that I wore that skirt when I was about 10 year's old. It's part of an old ballet costume.) Even man's best friend dressed up as America's superhero.Here are some creative costumes from a costume party I attended last night...

Third place went to a spoof of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" video feat. Justin Timberlake that SNL did a skit of months ago. (SNL video from youtube if you haven't seen it before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5qx-MVrXfk&feature=fvw)Second Place: Snap, Krackle and Pop from the Rice Krispies Cereal boxFirst prize: Rosie and Mr. Red Legs (yes, the heads are huge! They used paper mache.)

Fall fun

Yes, it's that time of the year again. The leaves are changing colors, the stores are filling with seasonal items and of course, the annual pumpkin carving! Drew and I spent the gorgeous Monday outside with the bright orange vegetables trying to carve the perfect jack-o-lantern. We thought about watiting until it was closer to the weekend, but it was so nice out and he figured someone will probably steal or smash them anyways so we went ahead and cut them. If you know me, I can get quite competitve when it comes to carving. Drew likes to believe his is the best, and I'd have to DISagree. You can judge for yourself....

(By the way, the one on the left is a skeleton and the right is a "B" for the Bengals.)

We did take a picture of the two of us holding our pumpkins, but it's on Drew's camera so I'm not sure if I will be able to post it or not.

It's hard to believe October is coming to an end. Time is flying by so fast. I'm sure I will be writing about Thanksgiving before I know it. But first, I need to figure out a costume and enjoy the weekend.

Speaking of time flying, Drew and I brought out the old school Nintendo this past weekend. I was disappointed that Duck Hunt doesn't work on his TV, but we were able to compete against each other in Paper Boy and Dr. Mario. Boy, do I have some practicing to do!! I was awful. It is crazy how much systems and graphics have changed over the years. Everything use to be so simple. It made me laugh to think how much fun we were having stacking colored pills on top of viruses in Dr. Mario. I can't imagine what kids would say who didn't grow up with the game.

We are the champions!

Yes, that's right, my sand volleyball team won the league last night! I have to say, it was probably one of the most fun nights on the court too, and not because we won. Obviously, it's fun to win, but I think everyone was enjoying themselves more than usual because we knew it was our last night playing together.

This is my team between the first and second matches (we played three over the course of the night).

And this is us wearing our League Champions shirts. (Remember back in the day...think grade school...when we posed around the ball.)

Now, our job for this week is to find another sport or activity to play in during the winter. Everyone agreed that it's a fun group to hang out with and we all enjoy having something (exercise related) to do during the week. We were hoping to join a flag football league, but apparently that already started a few weeks ago. There are rumors that there is an INDOOR sand volleyball facility around here, so someone is looking into that. I said if nothing works out, we can start a game night. I've been wanting to pull out the Twister board for weeks now!

Friends and football

Another weekend came and went WAY too fast, but not without a reunion with friends and lots of football! I was able to get some time off from work and work it out so I could go back to Bloomington for Homecoming! I regret not seeing as many people as I had hoped to, but those that I did see, showed me a good time. And in return, I was able to (hopefully) show Drew a good time. I was really excited to share a little bit of my college experience with him.

Reunited with Bolen (and her roommate Kendall)!

All smiles and laughs at Nicks!I think Drew had fun too :)Standing in front of the newly renovated stadium. The Hoosiers won!!

Our time was cut short due to the Bengals game Sunday. The good news was I was able to get tickets through work and took my brothers.