my weekend (delayed)

i think i said in my last post that i would comment more on my weekend. well, now that this weekend is almost here i guess i will comment on the last one!

friday night after work i headed to louisville to spend the weekend with my brother will and his wife beth (3 years later and it's still weird to say my brother has a wife. ha!). will goes to seminary there and beth is teaching. it's always fun to go hang out with them because even though they are on a seminary-esque budget, they always have something fun planned even if it is just hanging out and consoling will after his blue devils lose. (sorry will. had to throw it out there.)


saturday morning we were lazy and made star wars easter eggs! here is the finished product. beth says it was the best $2.68 she's ever spent. i agree!


saturday night we went to see the movie vantage point. i thought it was pretty great! i'd say it's a mix of crash, 24 and either memento or groundhog's day. if you see it, you would understand. it's definitely a rentable movie but it was fun to see it in the theater because you heard everybody's reaction to everything. i think that makes a movie better sometimes.


then sunday we went to will and beth's church for easter. will and beth lead a young singles sunday school class so i fit right in there. :) it was great and at least 6 different people came up to will and i and said "that HAS to be your sister. you guys look EXACTLY alike!" that jackson gene runs deep :)

then after a very tasty lunch and a little more hanging out, i head back to nashville in time to meet whitney and reed and head to our church's last easter service. it was awesome! i'm hoping that pete will post the video they played at some point and if he does, i will definitely post it!

ok, sorry for the long post. it was a good weekend. :)

it's been a while

so whitney's cousin lori said she was tired of seeing "free at last" but i have a good explanation for my absence!

i got a job!!! yay!!!! beginning april 7th, i will be the sales and marketing creative assistant at big machine records and valory music company. i'm really really excited and who ever knew i would end up in the music business! it's amazing where God takes you when you focus.

perks of the job:
• working for amazing artists like taylor swift, jewel, trisha yearwood, jimmy wayne, and several more!
• working right next door to whitney! (this means no more lunches alone in the dnj "cafe" and saving a ton of gas money!)
• working with jojamie!
• learning a big fat ton and dealing with new media
• still being able to be creative...probably with less boundaries as newsprint design
• working for a really cool company like big machine!
• and there's more for sure, but that's the quick list.

so there was more to my weekend than getting my job but the hills is coming on soon and for the time being, that takes precedence over blogging! :)

free at freakin' last

they've been doing renovations at work now for the past 3 months at least. this was our new publisher's solution to our desperately needing a new building. when they began work on the advertising department, they sent us designers (there are 9 of us) up to a conference room all at one table like the klumps. at first it was fun and new because we could all talk and carry on conversations while we worked. [random note: i just noticed i started all 3 of these first sentences with a capital letter. you can tell i'm still in work mode. i fixed it though!] oh and the room we were in was about 60-70 steps (as in walking steps...not actual steps...but it does include a ramp though) away from the printer, the ad reps, the water, the bathroom, the break room and the time-in/out clock.

anyway, as you can imagine with 9 creative people (who have kind of lost our minds anyway) in a small room with no windows in a stressful work environment, we all started to get stir crazy and decided that maybe they weren't doing renovations at all...rather some sort of twisted social experiment!
but finally...we can all regain a little sanity at our own very spacious desks tomorrow. yay! in honor of leaving the "cage" i took some pictures today and thought i would share.

here is our happy little family with 8 desks around it. my manager had his own "desk" in the corner. you can almost see todd's fake happy face at the head of the table.

here is my little space. that's justin's computer to the left, emily's hand behind my computer and chris's copy board to the right. close quarters for sure!

i forgot to post this picture originally. how i could forget...i have no idea. it's really the icing on the cake if you ask me. it was really cold in our little cage because it's pretty much completely separate from everybody and one of the walls was an exterior wall. anyway, being the most cold-natured one in the office, i usually asked for our heater to be turned on. and here it is...the chromalox circa 1906 in all it's glory...

daylight saving time

did you know it's not daylight savingS time? i've been saying it wrong for 25 years. well...minus the years i didn't know what it was. anyway...since we've been going to the 6:00 service on sunday nights, springing ahead didn't quite affect me until this morning and boy did it. it was ridiculously hard to wake up this morning and rocket didn't help. apparently his internal clock was off too. normally he wakes me up with kisses on the face or crying at the door because paisley and whitney are already up. silly morning girls. but today he snuggled up which makes it really hard to get out of bed.

but the drive home in complete sunlight today definitely made it worth it. it's amazing what a good mood i'm in when i see the sun 3 whole times in one day. ha! of course my mood was shot down a little when i got home and found a membership letter from the AARP. what? no offense to those wonderful AARP-members but i'm just now adjusting to 25...let's not rush things how 'bout it?

other than being declared twice my age by junk mail, my day was good. and my weekend was even better. i'll spare you all of the details and just send you to whitney's blog because she's proving to be far more consistent in this blogging deal. and that doesn't surprise me very much. and really if you know the both of us (or either of us for that matter), that shouldn't surprise you either. haha. in a quick nutshell though, i got to tag along to the big machine records and valory music company show on thursday to see jimmy wayne, jack ingram and jewel (who yodeled and it was the coolest thing!) and friday i got to tag along to the new faces show with luke bryan, bucky covington, jake owen, jason michael carroll and the superfantastic taylor swift. then we went to the disco party where gloria gaynor (as in "i will survive" gloria gaynor), taylor (again), and lady antebellum (among others) performed fun disco songs all night. we had a blast!!!

gone baby gone and stuff like that there

it's unusually quiet at home tonight because there are 2 bodies missing. little baby dasher went to his big momma's house (in selmer) saturday. that makes it way more quiet because that means rocket doesn't make his veloca raptor noise (apparently he only reserves that one for puppies smaller than him) and no little bitty barks from dasher as he runs down the stairs. (and normally i would include a picture here, but my camera has been out of commission since dash was born. anybody seen my battery charger???)

also, if you read whitney's blog, you know it's crs week. i kind of equate it to the spotlight magazine for me at work - the biggest event of the year. so she's off doing very important things and i'm just hanging out with rocketman and paisley. so i'm going to head to bed early since i didn't sleep well last night.

so i've had to do some self-analyzing recently and i all the sudden discovered that i'm not near as confident in myself as i should be. i'm very thankful for the people very close to me who genuinely care about me and have all the confidence in me in the world. it means alot when you discover how highly people think of you. and i hope those people know i think the same of them.