Catch Me Up

This past weekend was pretty eventful. We left on Friday morning and headed up to Maryland to spend some time with the family and for my brother in law’s promotion ceremony. Seeing him get promoted did have me longing to be back in the Air Force for a second. A very brief second!!! Boogie had a chance to hang out with his cousins ( they are the closest he’s going to get to sisters) and they got a chance to hang out with him (the closest they’ll get to a little brother).   He really enjoyed it,  since he’s an only child and our neighborhood doesn’t have any kids his age it was a great chance for him to really play.  While there I was able to see my favorite Aunt and bestest lil cousin/ play sister.

The brief couple of days made me realize how much I miss my sister and how I need to spend more time with her.  The majority of my wife’s immediate family are here in Atlanta so she sees them all the time.  That’s one of the main reasons why we chose to move to Atlanta. Me, on the other hand, I’m not that close with my family. distance or relationship wise.  Its always been this way with me and people.  I’m the type that will just stay home and watch TV or read a book over actual live communication.  I need to get out of that.

Anyway, We left Friday morning and came back Monday night. I would love to move up there and buy my Aunt’s house from her when she retires in 2012, but ummerra the traffic and crowd is something that I cannot get used to again.  See, I have this little issue with large crowds of people that I don’t know. I don’t go into panic attacks or anything, but I don’t let it get that serious either. I’m just not a larger crowd person, even if I know most or even all of the people there. I have also been spoiled by what you get for your money in housing.

I think we may need to think about this more as a family, but I really doubt if the other half will want to leave Atlanta.  right now we live outside the city in a nice northern suburb. Just close enough to jet downtown for whatever and just far away to be secluded from the things we don’t want to deal with downtown. Perfect position.  I have been looking at jobs up there and my brother and sis are looking as well, but it would have to be  VERY good job for her to move up there with me.  If anything she would tell me to take the job and just come home every weekend or every other weekend. Seriously.

All in all, I loved spending time with my family and I plan on doing it again soon. There’s nothing like connecting with family and helping them celebrate that special day.  I just wish I would have been able to stay longer.

I also bought the BlackBerry 8520.  I was trying to hold out for the new one that comes out in November but I couldn’t wait. Why not the 8900 you ask? Well, first of all it cost like $500! Secondly, I compared all the specs and the only difference is that the 8900 comes with GPS software and the 8520 doesn’t.  Seeing as I wouldn’t use the GPS software because I can just download google Maps ( which I’ve used on my 8320 before and it walked me right to where I needed to be) if I feel the need to be GPS’d while out somewhere without an actual GPS device.  Besides, if it really comes down to it and I have to have it I can always buy it and put it on my phone.  I’m really digging this phone!  It’s so much faster than the other one I had, the internet browser isn’t the best but I put Opera on there and this new browser called Bolt. This phone has allot more internal memory as well, now I don’t have to decide which app has to go when I see a new one I wan to download/use.

I’m going to get back into vlogging sooner or later, I just haven’t decided what direction to take it. I actually still do it weekly and sometimes in between, just for personal use though. I don’t upload anything. I’m trying to find some new shows or a show to do recaps of just haven’t found anything that’s recap worthy that’s stating and isn’t midway through the season.  I want to start fresh. ya know?

So far classes are going great. I Aced my first one. It was just an intro type class so it wasn’t too hard, but an A is an A.  I have two classes that I’m taking now. Business math and Information Technology.  My classes are mini-mesters ( 4 1/2 week course instead of the typical 9 weeks) so they are pretty fast paced. I’m sure I’ll be able to keep up but some other things may fall to the side.  Mainly this blog.  I hate for it to drop though because this is a stress reliever and creative outlet for me.  I will try to use some of the time management skills I just learned to make it work though. We’ll see.

I know I’m jumping around a bit on this one but I haven’t really blogged in a while besides the weekly W.O.W. on Wednesdays.  I promise to do better. I  gotta go now though, have some homework to get started on.

See ya later…