Today was another good day but it is certainly cold here! I was inside almost all day, but it was cold in here too. I slept a little better last night, but not great.
We had dinner at a BBQ place and it was good, but I hardly ate any of the pork I got. Who I went with was hilarious. Good times with the RR folks! We walked to the restaurant and let me tell you it was freezing. I was so cold and it was just a little farther than I would have liked 
Bye!!!
So last night I was not able to sleep but for a couple hours. This is getting OLD!!!!! I don’t know what it is, maybe I need to unplug from technology earlier then I already am. I am sure I will figure it out soon.
Today was a pretty good day, I talked to much in the training that my throat hurts a bit, but that is OK. I didn’t know what to do for dinner so I just ordered a pizza – good ole standby
Alright, I am going to wrap this up so I can do the travel blog – so busy!!
Today, right now, I am doing laundry and packing and listening to a podcast. Multi tasking the crap out of this day
I am traveling to Atlanta today and the hardest thing I am faced with is deciding how to do the blog thing. I want to continue to do my travel inspired blogs as separate things from my regular blog, but I guess I am just going to have to be creative on the content of the regular daily blog…
I am a little sad to be leaving my sweet puppies, but I am always glad to travel for vacation and even for work. In packing today I am using all my cool stuffs, new luggage, clothes packs and just all those little gadgets that make this a little easier.
Welcome to 2016 in that before I travel now I must charge so many devices, my Beats, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, MacBook, mouse, camera, and my watch! Today is a little different because I am having to do laundry today which in reality I should have done it yesterday. I am not really pushing my time, but I would have rather been packed last night or earlier than just now at 15:11 when I need to leave here at 16:30. About the only thing left now is putting the last bit of laundry away and taking a shower
It took me forever to find the purse that I have now and I am not even 100% in love with it. I got a Kate Spade Cobble Hill cross body. I love the bag the thing that I don’t like is just that there is a little bit of chain on the strap and I just don’t like that look. The reason I bring it up is that my mom loves my wallet that goes with the purse. I have been looking for one for her and can’t find one. Now I am debating on getting a new one except it won’t really match and that just drives me crazy!! Such problems
OK, I need to get going on my shower and maybe I will blog some more when I get to Atlanta or maybe that will be on the travel one
Today I got my new monitor so I had to move out my old desk and put up my new temporary desk, just a little table, and mount the new monitor and move the other one. Not loving the angle of the top monitor, but now that I am working and watching YouTube I think it might actually be better because I won’t focus more on that than what I am doing
Also today I took my mom to the base so she could drop off some prescriptions and on the way back we stopped at the store and got her a brand new phone and handed down hers to my dad! Now we are all on iPhones and me and my dad have 6 plus and mom has a 6. I am kinda proud of it considering my dad is 85 and my mom is 75
I need to post the pictures of my desk on here, the desk that I am building. I am proud of it, but it should have already been done 
I am hoping that this temporary desk will motivate me to finish my real one!!
I decided today that I was really going to try to blog everyday this year. If you have read these blogs before you will know that I have been horrible at blogging, but I am making it a priority! I am not going to call this a resolution because there are so many other things I want to do different this year, but I am not organized enough to start right now. The other major thing I want to do is change my eating habits in a real way. Having meal plans for my and my folks, something that we can really stick to and not feel overwhelmed by the effort it takes to eat better. I will certainly be talking about that more in these blogs.
I have been having a couple issues that have really messed me up lately. I have been taking a new medication that is supposed to help me sleep, but a side affect is increased appetite. Well lately I haven’t even been sleeping good at all so I have decided that the side affect was not worth it. I was where I would not feel full and I would eat like 6 full meals a day for the last 2 weeks. Not good!!!
Alright, I am going to wrap this up and try to go to bed earlier tonight. I need to go fix me a water so I can take my meds and get in that bed
That’s right it’s January 1 of 2016 and this is a leap year. An easy way to remember what year is a leap year is that it is always the presidential election year. Anyway that has really nothing to do with this blog but I needed to tie in the catchy title
Today was a pretty good day overall even if I am running on very little sleep. Carlos came over this morning so we could go to Best Buy to look at cameras. On our way we got some yummy Starbucks I was convinced that I was going to end up with a DSLR, but after about an hour and a half we decided on a camcorder. The specific one I got was $215 and we decided to do a 2 camera scenario. I already have a wider angle camcorder and this new one would be more versatile for close up and portrait stuff. I also ended up getting my mom a new FitBit. Her’s was one you wore on your wrist, but it had a strange buckle not like a normal watch. It was extremely hard for her to get on and hard for me to put it on her. So the one we got has a normal watch like buckle.
Then on the way back we stopped and got some Panda Express for lunch – Orange Chicken, YUMMY!!!!!
I ordered a couple more things for my setup for blogging and vlogging. Oh yeah and I got some stuff to try to help train these new little puppies. They are not house broken and they are a bit older than I would have liked to teach them this lesson. I think they are like 8 months old. They are the sweetest little things, but full of so much energy!
Vixia HF R600
I have not yet reviewed the footage we shot with this, so will supply review then.
Vixia Mini
I have not used this much yet. But there is a YouTuber who uses it all the time, my inspiration for getting it, and she loves it. She now has the newer version of this, but she used this one for some time. It has a fisheye lens so the result is a little different from other cameras. I like the uniqueness and plan to use it when I vlog.
I have noticed that so many people have been wishing for a better 2016, but no matter how much junk I went through I had a pretty good year. I had several great trips and lots of good times with the family and even welcomed 3 new members - the puppies :)
Don't get me wrong, there are some things I would have really rather avoided, but there really is no use dwelling on those things in the past that you can not change.
I am happy about the friends I have and new friends I made this year. There are really good people out there and I am glad to know them!!
I am happy that I have this website again, it wasn't cool how I ended up with it, but again, oh well.
My brothers and I went on a great trip to Washington DC and I had a great trip to West Virginia.
I am going to be blogging and vlogging this year a lot more. I am looking into new equipment, but what I already have will work for now.
It is the last day of the year and currently 20:52 and I can hear the neighbors setting off fireworks. I am sitting in my bed with Archer on the TV and just trying to reflect on the year. I am having a hard time remembering anything before September and that is OK. I really look forward to this coming year and all the rest I will have.
Sorry this wasn't as amazing as I had imagined, but it is the best I can do right now. I have a major headache that I have had like all day long.
Happy New Year everyone!
Selphy C910
This is a photo printer by Canon, where the largest size is 4x6 print or postcard. This is a wireless printer but can also take an SD card and also USB. I am not a huge fan of the wireless printing just because I usually don't have great luck with it. With this printer I had really good luck printing pictures that were taken on my iPhone from my MacBook wirelessly. This printer will do full pictures, no border that is, but I actually like the ones that do have the border. I just think it looks better. Printing directly from the iPhone I have not figured out how to get the border, I can only get it from the MacBook. But the good thing is that, at least with the iPhone, it was easy to get printing - same with the MacBook. I did try for a couple minutes to print from my Windows 10 computer, but was not successful and didn't play with it anymore and I do plan on getting that to work.
The price was reasonable and the paper, which comes with the ink cartridge, is also reasonable. I purchased mine from Amazon and it totaled around $137. It is certainly more expensive then going to a place like Walgreens, but it is in your home and you might be more likely to actually get a picture printed. Plus it is so small that you could actually take it with you like on vacation or something. I can imagine if you were into scrap booking it would be perfect.
This is my first photo quality printer and so far I really do like it and recommend it to anyone who is looking to make high quality prints at home - and who doesn't need a multi-function printer.
Update: I used this a TON a couple weeks ago to print out pictures for my project and it did a great job!! I did print from my Mac and the only downside is that you can not send a ton at a time, you have to be patient and send like one, wait for it to print and then send the next one.
Hotline Bling
This song is AMAZING!!!!! It is so incredibly catchy and easy to sing along to. It does get stuck in your head if you are not careful :) Also, watching the video for this song is a must because it really helps to dance with the song!! Just super fun.