Our pictures came!! Yay!! So now I can start to scrapbook!! It's been so long since I've scrapbooked...I'm looking forward to it!

Hopefully I can go buy glasses tomorrow. Yay! Mine have been broken for a while now...so I've just been wearing my contacts a lot.

and I've been looking into purchasing an elliptical. I've gotten fat fat fat. So I need to start doing something about it, but I just never have the motivation to go to the gym at work.
Bleh.

I'm married.



{and quite frankly it seems as though no more of my friends are still using LJ}.

So, I know I've been MIA for a LONG LONG time...but hopefully I'll start back somewhat regularly.

A few things going on:
1. I'm getting hitched in April.
2. Started a new blog -- www.fourfourohnine.blogspot.com
3. Celebrating my 1st successful year at the CDC.
4. Hating most of the wedding planning process.
5. My brother is back in the USoA finally.
6. Celebrating Christmas in 4 different celebrations.
7. Thinking and contemplating my new year's resolutions...


Most importantly, I have a prayer request. Charlie (my mom's husband) recently lost his sister, Mary, to a sudden heart attack at the age of 47. Please keep him, his mother, his sister, Mary's husband and three kids in your prayers. They're life has totally changed and need all the prayers they can get.

I hope all is well for everyone!

two years!!!

and i couldn't be more thankful, for everything that has happened to me.

i love You

Work is going well. I've had a busy week in the lab. I often feel inferior though. So hopefully this attitude amongst the people will lessen over the next few months or so.


It actually snowed here in Atlanta!! and it might Saturday too.
Crazy eh? I miss Boone.

Please pray for Charlie. He's having bypass surgery tomorrow morning at 6 AM.
Keep him in your prayers that nothing goes wrong and that he has a healthy recovery.


Hope everyone is doing well.

I've been at my job for 4 weeks now and I am enjoying it a lot. There is still so much for me to learn, but I'm having fun. I actually can't wait for the lab work to pick up for me. I'm not in the lab all that often right now.

Other than work, not too much has been going on. The holidays were lovely, minus the fact that I got the stomach bug over Christmas eve and Christmas day.

I am definitely enjoying my life more. Having a car helps out a lot. And the new job...I actually feel important. So feeling good about myself always makes me feel better.



Anyways, I hope everyone has a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
LOVE ALL MY FRIENDS!

first week at the CDC was a success! waking up at 5.30a is definitely going to take some getting used to, but hey, i get out at 3.30p...so it's worth it. i've mainly been reading a lot of information about streptococcus pneumoniae. i streaked some plates to grow isolated colonies in the lab this week, and next week i'm going to be learning serotyping.

today i actually got my badge key card. so no more waiting to follow people into the buildings. now i can enter freely, as a single person. i also got my .gov email address today too. so I'M REAL!! not just a temp name anymore...i'm an official employee. woot woot!


so for transportation purposes, i purchased a new car. sadly, no more carpooling. it is definitely nice to be able to drive myself places. but i hate atlanta driving.




oh, and GO MOUNTAINEERS!!! appstate will be going to the ncaa division nation championship for the third straight year to defend their title. yay!!

so all in all, things are going well for the time being. i'm a little behind on christmas gifts, so christmas in november was not a success.

i better get crackin'...it's not too far from now.

I am ever so grateful for the things going on in my life right now
THANK YOU

So I got a few things on my list accomplished. I knitted, baked (not cookies though), assembled many many Christmas cards, and cleaned the kitchen.

A picture of my cards:



So yay to a partially productive weekend.

Fridays are always good.

The knitting group was great last night. We met some really cool people. The fun thing is, it's a pretty big group, so each Thursday night is different. It's wonderful. I finished Tim's hat and I've started on a scarf for Tim's niece. The yarn is a little trickier than I thought it would be, so hopefully it will turn out well.


TO DO THIS WEEKEND:
-bake cookies
-knit knit knit
-assemble christmas cards
-go to IKEA
-clean kitchen/house
-make more earrings
-make steely?


I'm loving the cold weather and my life. Things are looking good right now.

Keep Bill in your prayers. He's recovering from Quadruple bypass heart surgery.

So I spent the latter half of the evening playing around with my new anvil and hammer. Earrings are on the to do list, so I've created 3 pairs tonight...now as to whether or not they are gift worthy is a different story, but it's quite fun to play with the stuff. Here are a few pictures.








And, I want to have a center-pulling yarn ball maker at my house. Humph.