Jo Wobser Photography

I've decided to pursue my love for photography and started taking classes at CSN. One of my classes is Photographic Business Practices with Larry Hanna. One of the things we went over in class is building a website.

I've decided to give it a go..even though I really should be doing my business plan. I'm linking it here and referencing back to this blog from there...since it is a good practice to keep a blog also.

Jo Wobser Photography

btw, I'm not quite done with it yet, I have many many pictures to upload.

Slideshow project - If You'll Be Mine - Babybird

Google Calendar for concerts in the Las Vegas area

I started to use Google to track Las Vegas concert and tour dates that pertain to the same type of music that we promote at Hot Topic. It is actually a pretty good calendar. They used to have an option for Google calendar users to search for other publicly made calendars, but it seems they removed it just recently.

Here is the calendar I've created so far.


If you would like to add this calendar to your Google calendars, press the little +Google symbol on the bottom right hand corner of this calendar.

When My Grandparents Come to Vegas...

My grandparents come to Vegas about twice a year. Each time they arrive I am sure of a couple of things. One is if my Grandpa is following my Grandma around, that means he is out of money. He gets a daily allowance. If he is lucky, his allowance will last him all day and all night. He wakes up at 6 in the morning and goes straight downstairs to get started. It didn't seem like he was doing too good this time around. Then again neither did I. I don't want to talk about that right now.

The second thing is my Grandma needs to go to JC Penney to shop. It is one of her favorite places to shop. Unfortunately for her, they closed all the Pennies stores in Hawaii, so the only chance she gets is when she comes here. She goes on a shopping spree using her JC Penney credit card. She always lets me pick out things for me and Michael and the girls. I usually get some underwear or some clothes. This time she bought me a really nice suit, since I am trying to grow up.

Tonight is the last night of their weeklong trip. They leave tomorrow morning, so I was in their room tonight helping her pack her things. She called me this morning, well I wouldn't say morning, it was about 1 p.m. and I was still in bed. She needed tape and a permanent marker. Apparently, she had to pack an extra box because she likes to buy things for my family back home in Hawaii.

This year her assortment was definitely not the typical crap she buys. She had her usual boxes of See's candy for each Aunty, beef jerky, some sort of thin dried out cinnamon bagels and some Ethel M's candy for herself. For reasons I cannot comprehend, she had a very large cooking pot which she bought from Walmart. She also managed to pick up a rather large box of lazer toy guns that she was buying for one of the kids back home. What happened was, she had bought him something similar for Christmas and it ended up not working. My Grandpa, who is an avid fisherman, had a headlamp that I bought for him for Christmas. Yes, I am a procrastinator. I never mail things when I'm supposed to...which is why I also sent my oldest daughter's Christmas gifts with them. He also had a package of chicken blood. Chicken blood! Well its not so bad as you think. Weird, but not bad. It was actually catfish bait.

I laugh when I think to myself. The airport is going to have a field day. My Grandma is trying to smuggle her pot, some guns and some chicken blood! I hope she doesn't get in trouble when they see all the tiny little bottles of hotel lotion, shampoo and soap. There may have been a towel in there too. But I'm not saying anything.

Resolutions

The same resolutions year after year. Quit smoking... Lose weight... Same old stuff. I'm not sure if I ever had the resolution to grow up and get a job made for old people though. But its looking like I'm going to try. I love my job, I know I've said it many times. I love the people I work with. They are fantastic. But having a random schedule isn't an ideal situation for the family. Of course, family comes first. Michael went back to his 24 hour shift and the girls have to go to school. It makes things more complicated. To add to the list, if Michael goes back to Iraq, then that would be the nail in the coffin.

Looks like I need a Monday through Friday job. I'm thinking to myself "good luck with that!"

Wii

We were walking through Costcos, notice how much Costcos affects our lives nowadays.... We see something we definitely don't see everyday. A Wii system with the extras and a couple games. We scoop it up faster then a fat kid and a box of sugary donuts.

Not sure if the Wii actually justified the impulse purchase, especially with the economy's sudden burden on our financial situation.

We immediately purchased a couple games to go with it. One being Zelda Twilight princess. I have definitely spent a very large chunk of my life running around with Link.

Last night I spent 45 minutes of my life trying to jump from one rock to another failing numerous times...too many times to count. When I finally succeed getting to that hollow tree on the other side, I find nothing. Not even a single rupee.

I have come to the realization that the Wii is totally worth it. I live for games that take hours to figure out how to just get out of the starting area. I'm not being sarcastic either. I'm just a geek like that.

Randomness

If that is even a word...

Michael and I went out today to do things. He's getting ready for a class so he needed to get him some new uniform pieces today. We are definitely not in the same shape we were in 10 years ago, our waistlines are the proof.

I had my blood drawn today. I need to get some catscanning done on my boobie area. Just a bit of following up after the nasty pneumonia attack, which I think I still haven't got rid of yet. I'm still hacking up a lung here and there. Mornings are pretty terrible. I say I give myself an hour for the fluids to start running before I need to relieve the pressure from my face. Nights aren't too bad although the other night I had a short lived cough attack when I went to lie down. I was probably drowning myself for a minute. But in a couple weeks we'll see what they can find. All I have to say is I am super happy I don't have to remove any metal from my body.

I ate a pulled pork sandwich today. Pulled pork...oh you're so dirty!

Bed Bath and Beyond is too much for me to handle. It's like an orgy of visual goodness and temptation up the ying yang. Of course, I do not need 99.999999% of anything in that store although it would all be nice if I want to do some fancy living. I came out of there with a rabbit wine bottle cork opener, because I'm a sissy when it comes to that and if Michael is not around then Jonette is not a fancy wine drinker.

I believe we are getting a kitten tomorrow. Surprisingly, it was Michael's idea. He seems to want one right now. Petsmart is a stinky place. Or at least the one we went to is. I'm guessing it is the dogs. We ended up going to the animal shelter to check it out and Michael found a perfect candidate...unfortunately, we were 15 minutes too late to adopt one. By the way, the website lied. Lied is the name of the shelter, imagine that! Although I do prefer black cats because they remind me of my first cat Lucifer (RIP), this cat we are getting is a brown and white striped tabby. So since I didn't get to pick it out, I'm naming her Mrs. Lovett. Michael doesn't like it. But the girls seem thrilled with it.

Michael lost his battle with the search for the Beertender tonight. Apparently, Bed Bath and Beyond has them but they are pretty pricey. He saw it in Costcos but of course they don't have it now. Costcos is good about that. Don't even get me started on those Valdosta pecans. We went to Target to see if it was there but we ended up walking out with cat supplies instead.

I ate sushi tonight. Did I ever write that I love sushi, but I really hate raw fish. We ate dinner with Chris and Susie, our long time military friends. I met them years ago when we were stationed in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They were our next door neighbors and we lived in the "hood" as I like to call it. They were sent to California and I didn't see them for a few years. When we PCSed to Vegas they ended up getting sent here soon after. Now they are packing it up (literally) and shipping off back to Cheyenne, Wyoming. Bless your poor little souls, I feel for you, say hi to the wind for me. For the love of baby Jesus, I hope to the sweet mother of all things that are pure and good in this world that we don't end up seeing them again in Cheyenne. Although, my other old neighbor Trina, who has been stationed in Cheyenne twice, always used to tell me that everyone always goes back to Cheyenne. It is like the brown sucking trap door to Hell. It is impossible to have nice hair...unless you use tons of hairspray.