SNOW DAY!!!

You all should consider yourselves lucky! There are two reasons that I am updating this post for the second time in less than a week. The first is that I am attempting to delay writing a literature review for a research paper. Unfortunately, this is due on Wednesday and I have a lot of work to do on it. Secondly and more importantly, I am off of work today due to a snow day!! YAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!! SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!!!YAAAAAAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!! I woke up bright and early this morning and helped Char brush off her car, saw her off to work, came inside, watched some Sportscenter, welcomed Char back home due to the fact that the road conditions were deemed too dangerous by her to journey into work, then took the dogs on walks.

I decided to take some pictures of the snow and let y'all see what shuts down this city. So here you go.....

Roxie and I went to the park. I took pictures of stuff...

...she played in the snow.

This sign is a part of the playground at the park. Pretty cool.

I thought this view of the snow covered slide was pretty neat.

This tree is in front of our house, it usually stands taller than the top of the first floor windows.

The snow was pretty deep, but the fact that it rained all day yesterday before it started to snow made it impossible for the roads to be ready for this morning's commute.

This is our street, as you can see, it was not (and still is not) plowed

Tons of businesses and practically all schools/colleges/churches/government offices are closed. I was actually walking around and thinking that if this snow had hit Cleveland, it would have just been cleaned up early in the morning and everyone would be working today, thinking that it would be nice to have a snow day.

Our snowy house

Busy

Things here in Richmond, VA have been very busy lately. With the start of a new semester and all of the stress of work, I have not been inspired to write on my new blog lately. I have also picked up more hours at work, anticipating the eminent loss of income that accompanies the fact that I will not be working full-time starting in May. This is rather worrisome, but Char continues to remind me that it will payoff in the long run. On a related note, I have decided that I will be applying to PhD programs in the fall. This is not to say that I will be accepted to any programs, so please do not get too anxious for me, as I am sure to be anxious enough as it is. I love the college environment and am hopeful that I can continue to succeed academically in my current Masters Program, perform well on the GRE, and be accepted to a PhD program somewhere. Resulting in a career change to college professor. I hope to continue working with children, and will most likely focus on School Social Work or a related field if I get accepted. So do whatever it is that you choose to do to help send me positive vibes, which will hopefully manifest themselves by consequently increasing the probability that I will be a more attractive candidate to prospective PhD programs (i.e. please keep me in your thoughts and prayers). Sorry about the absence of interesting photos on this post, but we haven't done anything photo worthy lately. By the way, I am pretty active on facebook, so that is a better way to catch up with me. I find it is less time consuming than blogging. Most importantly, keep in mind that Char is graduating from Duke in May. We would love it if anyone could join us in celebrating her earning her MBA!! From a hopeful future Social Work PhD candidate, Peace out bitches!!

I'm Back

Roxie wants to know where the heck y'all have been.

I have decided to return to the fantastic world of blogging. There is no real reason for my return, the plot line is similar to that of Superman Returns. I left, I am back and there is not going to be a detailed explanation. However, I do not have an alter ego who looks exactly like me and lives in the same city that I do who also left abruptly and returned unexpectedly but people have yet to deduce that he and I are the same person. How quickly I digress. This blog is not going to be extensive, there is too much to describe since the hasty closing of Jimbo's Blog Shop. I will put up some photos and tell everyone that I am glad to be back. Did you miss me? By the way, I am thinknig of starting a Ponzi scheme, let me know if you are interested in investing.


Here's some stuff that happened since I've been away:

I took up hiking. Here's me resting on the Appalachian Trail.

Dan Matt and I took a hike over the July 4th Holiday. Join me next time?

You could see beautiful vistas like this one!

Or walk through a forest that is full of Pacasandra! It is beautiful when they bloom in June.

Jer and Charlene got married!!

It was a beautiful wedding.

Jer tried to tongue kiss me.....

I got excited!!

I hung out with family.

Have you seen this man dance? It is like John Travolta (from Saturday Night Fever, not from Face Off) in the body of a 68 year old man.

Joe and Sarah got married. Congrats!!

The Cianciolo family got bigger.

Jer and I went to Nashville to watch the Browns get destroyed by the Titans.

Norah started to grow up.

And Char got more beautiful!