Random Update!

Hello All!

Anyway...I still owe photos from American Idol and My cousin's kids birthday party (some REALLY cute pics from that!) but since September has been pretty much non-stop since it started, I haven't even had the time to really go through and organize the photos they way I want to.

Last weekend I was planning to do some updating and organizing but I ended up deciding last minute to go to my grandfathers house for the day to help him since he thought he had done something to the computer and so we wanted to get it sorted out. Had a good time (as always) and was able to do my laundry too. We had panzarotti's for lunch (my fave!) and then went to the diner for dinner. It was a fun but long day.

This weekend it seems Sunday we will be going to MIL's house at the shore to visit.Hopefully we will be back by 8:15 for the Eagles game. Maybe I will get some good photos out of the day or something.Maybe Ben will let me bring the laptop to show her the new software and all that jazz.

Speaking of the new software that I am 100% in LOVE with....Seriously, this is not a sales pitch but I LOVE this new software (Storybook Creator Plus). One of the coolest things I have been able to do with this software is not only make the storybooks (obviously!) but now I can save pages from the book (or all the pages!) or make individual pages on anything and save them as JPGs. It is so awesome. It gives me one more way to backup my pages and now they let you share the books through the photo center but when I just make a page and want to share it I can use the photo center OR I can just email it to someone!! Or....post it here!!!
(see below images to demonstrate what I am talking about!)
These are jpgs I saved from the book I created LAST October after our trip to Buffalo so it may all look familiar but I love how I can create my book, then save the pages and post the pages to share!!

The Cover!!!(I can even save the cover!!!)


I know you won't really be able to read the text on some of these pages b/c when I made them originally I was trying to squeeze info in but you can still get the idea. I am not going to paste all 20 pages but a few of my faves!






A text only page:













I know those photos and stuff are old but I will try to get a more recent one up asap. I LOVE this software-my new addiction!!

In other news....

Work is work. Same stuff different day. Lately we have been feeling more drained daily and a lot of other area staff that now that we have 21 students instead of 10 and are constantly "dropping" them from their areas which just puts them in my area more and makes more work for me. Thankfully I have the day off tomorrow so that is nice and since I had a bunch of vacation days to use before Christmas I am only working one Monday in October! Next week I work full week, then we have off Oct 8 for Columbus day then I took off the 15th, 22nd and the whole last week of October. I am hoping to go to DC for the day on Oct 30 and then on Halloween I will have all day to set up for trick or treaters instead of just rushing when I get home. I even took a few days off in Nov and one in Dec I think. I think between now and the end of the year there are only a handful of weeks where I will work a full week-I LOVE it. And I need it. I had saved my days in case I was going to go out to CA to see my brother before he went to Japan and so now I had to use them. They will be used well!!!

Speaking of my brother. He seems to be doing well and enjoying life in Japan. He went to the Tokyo Game Expo 2007 last weekend and my grandfather and I talked to him for a few on the web cam last weekend too. We just got lucky and caught him as he was waking up on Sunday and it was Saturday night for us (they are 13 hours ahead!) So that was a nice treat.

Oh-and last night I went to NYC to McFadden's Bar for a Canisius Alumni Fall Happy Hour Kick off. It was cool and I am glad I went. I talked to two women who were a few years ahead of me but I recognized the one and she recognized me and it was b/c we had mutual friends and so it was fun to reminisce about some of the things at Canisius. It was only 2 hours which was fine for me. My co-worker went into the city with me b/c I wasn't keen on going in by myself at night and so he went with me. We both had a good time, tasty food and I even won a Canisius Shirt in this business card raffle they did. I talked to the head guy too and a few others about trying to have some things in NJ too b/c those of us in this area are considered "NYC chapter" but its not easy for most of us to get into NYC during the week so some Jersey things would be good too. I am hoping to try and keep in touch with the women I talked too, especially since one lives less than 30min from me!

Tonight is big TV night for me: Survivor, Grey's/CSI and ER! And I have my last night TV (Private Practice, Top Chef, Kid Nation) and Tuesday night (House) to watch too! I see myself in front of a TV all day Saturday!

Tomorrow I am off from work but I am going to http://www.digitallife.com/ Digital Life Expo in NYC. It should be fun-get to look at all the new toys and gadgets and games that are being released-I am looking forward to it. Ben's cousin was supposed to come with me but it didn't work out.I hope it doesn't rain but thankfully I think they are having shuttles from the train station so even if it does I can take a shuttle instead of walking to the Javitt Center like I will if it isn't raining!

I guess that is all for now! Talk to you later. Hope everyone is well!!

ta ta for now!