I did this just to prove that I watch waaaaaaay too much tv...thanks princessjessia

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 I've had a pretty crazy end of the summer...I'm actually leaving for Oklahoma City on Thursday to play me some championship softball. I'll be blogging all about it so if you're interested in seeing how its going make sure to check http://nationalchamp.tumblr.com/

so here's the summer 2009 edition. where to begin...

I'm playing softball again this summer but I've kicked it up a notch- I'm playing with a league team and a tournament team. I absolutely love my league team, win or lose I ALWAYS have a great time with those girls. The tournament team is so-so. I haven't yet jelled with most of them mostly because our tournaments keep getting cancelled but we're pretty good and have come in 2nd twice. We qualified for nationals in Alabama, which I'm pretty excited about.

Work is well work. I can't believe how much stuff I'm getting to do. Technically my title is web designer, but I keep saying that's the least of what I do. I've been doing a lot of video and photography lately and I'm enjoying learning some new stuff. Problem is getting those other, smaller, less fun tasks out of the way. I had a super crazy project to do in the spring and it came out pretty good but I have so many more things I want to do!

I really need to start freelancing again though (anyone need a website!?) definitely will be redesigning and updating my portfolio here soon!

I moved again. Roommate wanted to move closer to his work and I ended up finding an apartment right on campus that is pretty good size and money-wise. I'm now a full 5 minute walk from work! I'm enjoying living by myself more than I thought I would. I've also upgraded my 10 gallon fish tank to a 55 gallon! I love it!!

Summer here in Ohio this year has been an interesting one. Its raining a lot and hasn't been super warm. The rain has been a pain just because it only seems to fall on days I have softball games, I think more games have been cancelled due to rain then I've played this year. Grrrr.

As I said (and I'm sure you've noticed) I rarely post on LJ but I am very active on twitter [twitter.com/poisoniv] and facebook [www.facebook.com/arbucklehm] so if your really interested in keeping up with me those are your best bets.

Hope everyone else is doing well!!

Hope you all have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here's what it looks like outside:



with a possible 11-18" more by Saturday.


I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ready to go snowboarding.
or have a snowball fight.
or make snow angels.
and a snowman.

Its been way too long my friends, from updates (or lack of them) I see that everyone's had a pretty busy summer and fall. Its been the same for me, just one thing after another and then on a lazy Saturday I realize that I haven't updated in forever...

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Don't know about the rest of you but I can't believe its almost September!

I've been doing a bunch of things this summer:

- Softball. It went well this year, we played good together and had a pretty solid team. No super dramatic ending like last year, we actually just lost out of the tournament on Friday. Can't wait to play next year. Oh and I had a bunch of diving catches, so many that its like the big joke on our team. I even had a few that I didn't catch but the ump called them out anyway. I know, I'm awesome like that.

- OLYMPICS!!! I barely did anything the last 2 weeks except watch hours and hours of olympics. Swimming was awesome, Phelps = amazing...but sheesh, Dana Torres is my hero.

- Work. I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed lately, mainly because I'm getting the "oh shit I was going to work on our site during the summer and classes start soon...I know I'll get Heather to work on it" Yeaaaaah thanks. Sometimes I wish just one person could help me do the little things. Oh! But on a good note-- I moved into a new office.... I have a window!!! Something so minor makes a big difference.

- Gym. I joined a pretty sweet gym and I'm going there quite a lot, even more now since softball is over. I'm gonna start swimming and soon the roommate and I are going to get certified to use the rock wall. Pretty syked about that.

- tv. Yay, soon some of the great shows will be back to make me happy. Although to be fair I'm really enjoying Burn Notice this summer. So the one I'm most excited about is called Sanctuary, It'll be on SciFi and premieres Oct 3rd. Amanda Tapping stars and actually last fall this show had 8 online webisodes. Coolest thing about it-- something like 85% is shot on a green screen. I've also managed to get the roommate into Terminator, Chuck, Dexter and Kyle XY...next is Pushing Daises.

- Apartment. I can't believe people stay sane with this rental company. I love the apartment but they take FOREVER to fix things. It took over a month for them to install our new bathroom floors and roommate had to throw a fit about our washing machine before they just gave in and installed a new one. Too bad our dryer still doesn't turn off unless we keep the door open, and our dish washer runs super loud. At least in both instances they work, its just very annoying. Plus at night there is only 1 streetlight to show the entrance. So if anyone ever attempts to find my place at dark...good luck.

- Looking ahead. The weather is getting touchy, sometimes its super warm and some days are chilly. As sad as this might sound I really can't wait to snowboard.

Ok, hope everyone else had a great summer!

YAY! Burn Notice is back! With Tricia!



Can't wait!!

Yeah it needed some updating so instead of making small changes I decided to start over. Hopefully I'll have some time this week to design a header and give it a little more love but its a start...oh new one for the profile as well. I'd do it now but I just consumed way too much pizza and I think a quick nap is next on my list.

I finished the Harry Potter series this week. Overall I'm pretty happy the outcome. Most of my friends can't stand that I didn't read the books but the audiobooks worked really well for car rides and had a great narrator. Plus I seem to have this problem with only reading 3/4 of a book....

So yeah, instead of doing things like working on my portfolio on my 11 days off last month, I started (and finished...yup all 10 seasons) watching Stargate SG1. *sigh* another character crush = I love Carter.  I'll probably start watching Atlantis real soon.

Softball is going pretty awesome. I love the team this year, they are a great group. We're playing well too, we've lost bad both times we've played the best team in the league, but we don't play them again for the rest of the season.

My sister just moved to Cleveland, she got a pretty sweet apartment too. I'm looking forward to hanging out with her in the big city.


Hope everyone has a fun 4th of July!!