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I received the good news on Monday that I got the internal job that I have been interviewing for at my work! The fact that the other two applicants also got the job doesn’t lessen my excitement and joy. While my travels won’t lessen for a while and my work load just might double, in the long run this is a very good thing for my checking account, my personal life and my overall career. Training starts Monday.

My new title will be “Event Technical Consultant.” It’s an adventure!

At my church, there are babies everywhere, most of them being the first grandchild. Everywhere you look, you can find grandparents with cameras taking hundreds of pictures of their granchild. I wonder how many of these kids first words will be “Cheese!”  or “iPhone!” ??

I wanted to try and make my very own website, on my own domain, so this is an experiment. I’ve imported all the posts from my other blog over here so that everything is all in one place.

 I have vision for this, but I guess we will start out simple and I will get it more to where I like is as I learn how to use Word Press, CSS, and php….

 and yes, i will start posting here, so don’t go back to my blogspot blog.

 just come here!!

to my berlin reader:

i don’t know who you are, but i am coming to your city tomorrow. any suggestions where i should eat, shop or be a tourist at?

Film: There Will Be Blood

If Daniel Day Lewis does not win an Oscar for his performance in this intense film, then I will know that the Academy Awards is truly rigged. He’s a completely unredeemable character with an unstoppable greedy and competitive personality. However, I found it interesting that the characters who surround him end up reflecting the same characteristics that he does, except perhaps the son. The most fascinating part of the film is the relationship between the oil man, Daniel Plainview (Lewis) and the young clergyman, Eli Sunday. Both exhibit hypocrisy, greed, competition and a desire for power. The churh tries to use the oil man for his money, and the oil man uses the church for material gain. Some of the scenes between Daniel and Eli are so intense, they are hard to watch. Though the characters in the film may not find redemption, I do think that there is a lot to learn and ponder from watching the characters interact. For me, this is one of the best films that I have seen in a long time.

Teal Scarf

Some of my favorite gifts are things that people have made me. I have this teal crocheted scarf that one veronicam knitted me a while ago. Its really skinny and long so I can wrap it a million times around my neck. It matches everything. I can wear it pretty much anytime I feel like it. I have worn it down to the perfect softness. It’s almost like a security blanket.

I remember when she first gave it to me, she was a bit aplogetic about the length. “I’m sorry, I just kept going and I didn’t realize how long it is. And If you don’t like the color, I totally understand,” she said to me before I had even unwrapped it.

Little did she know.

If I ever lose this scarf, I will be sad. And I will promptly text or twitter her to let her know that she better have some of that yarn stashed away because I will want her to make me another.

I think I shall make her a wedding present instead of buying one.

Coming Soon…

With my new title at work “Senior Technical Specialist,” I have been challenged by my boss to have my own website: get a domain name, get it hosted and create a multi-funcionality blog using wordpress, learn CSS and design it myself instead of relying on blogger to do it all for me.

OK. Challenge on.

I wonder if I can get a raise out of this?

Jen’s Hip for 2008 List

1. Tea is the new coffee.
2. Twitter is the new Facebook
3. Mint.com is the new personal banker
4. Moleskine is the new spiral notebook
5. H&M is the new GAP
6. My T-mobile Windows Smart Phone is the new cubical
7. Aveeno Lip Balm is the new chapstick
8. Ipod is the new DVD player
9. Guitar Hero 3 is the new party game
10. Huckabee is the new Chuck Norris

Family

I have heard that many people do not enjoy the holidays because of relatives. I suppose that at times, I could admit that same thing. This year, I have been thinking about my family, both immeadiate and extended, and realize that I am a pretty lucky girl.

When I think about my family, parents, brother and wife, aunts and uncles, cousins and all the little second cousins, I feel very blessed. They are really an amazing group of people. I can’t think of one of them that I do not like. If I was not related to them, I think that I would try very hard to know them somehow, or I’d try to be related to them.

I guess I should give the credit to my grandparents, who are both now in heaven. They had 5 children, on my mom’s side, who then in turn, had 13 children and who in turn have had 28 plus 2 on the way and who knows how many more to come! This number does not include spouses and others who are cousins through marriage.

Wow.

…and all of them are beautiful, amazing, fun, wonderful people!

There is a perfect verse in the Bible that I think describes my family

Psalms 78:4
We will not hide them from their children;
we will tell the next generation
the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD,
his power, and the wonders he has done.

I love the generational vision that my family has and I wonder just how large this family is going to get?