8 posts tagged “vox neighbors”
I always have the strangest dreams in those nine minutes of sleep between hitting the snooze bar and the alarm going off again. Last night was no exception. I was at my parent's house having a Vox meetup with Jamie and Mad Tante. Jamie's son was there and so was my Sophia. I couldn't remember Mad Tante's name in my dream. Although, now that I am awake, I don't think I know it in real life. I also made sure to ask Sophia to take pictures so I could blog about it. So yeah, kinda bummed it wasn't real when I woke up. Mad Tante is really nice and funny in dreamland. I bet she is in real life too. If I'm ever out in the Ozarks, I'll have to look her up!
I've noticed people have started blogging more around here. And I like it. I've missed you all! I'm going to stop being a slacker and blog more again. I miss it. Also, my husband says he's going to start blogging again and I'm going to hold him to it! ;-)
It started out with a impromptu get-together at my house when Rob and Nicole arrived to pick up my nephew (I watched him while they were out of town) and Steve's brother, Rob and his wife, Kirsten showed up at the same time Sunday night. We all ended up sitting on the porch for awhile just visiting.
You know what's awesome? Going on business trips with Steve. We get to eat out, stay in a hotel with free breakfast (I love a good free breakfast), and most importantly, I can usually meet up with a Vox friend!
You know what I love about the New Year? Everyone starts to blog again. I find new and interesting people too. Sure they'll probably abandon their blogs by the end of January, but I'm enjoying it right now.
I've made a little resolution of my own. I've resolved to be a better commenter. I do a lot of my Vox reading from my phone. For some reason, my phone doesn't let me comment. I always think of wonderful witty comments when I read from my phone. By time I get home I forget what I wanted to say and leave some crappy half exhausted comment because I want you all to know I care, or I just forget completely. Ok, who am I kidding, it's usually the latter. So yes, I know I am a horrible Vox friend but I am resolving to be better.
Speaking of Vox, I've been noticing well, this little pet project seems a little neglected by it's founders lately. I understand it probably isn't some great cash cow, but I like it. I'm getting paranoid about it going under. Or being overtaken by Russian spammers. (Am I the only one that got creepy comments from weird Russians a couple of weeks back?) So anyway, let's all just blog more and click on an ad or two every so often and keep this thing afloat. I even sent some recommendations to the [this is good] people. I've made a lot of great friends here and I love reading your blogs. Let's not just abandon it for Facebook or Twitter!
In other news, my church officially has a building. This is so exciting as we have been meeting in a garage since April, I think, it may have been May, but it's been awhile. We are leasing this really cool space that used to be a coffeehouse. It'll be great to have a real building where we can begin serving in the community.
So yeah, a little random, a little all over the place, but it's the Tuesday after Christmas break. I'm tired and my brain is fried. But it's been a good week so far.
Things I loathe:
- Being perpetually tired. I'm only 32. I can't imagine how I'm going to feel when I'm 50!
- Being so busy that I can't seem to keep my house straight for more than an hour at a time.
- My iPhone reverts back to my home page when a Vox page is almost done loading.
- Did I mention the busyness? Really, I feel like I don't have time to breathe lately.
Things I love:
- Meeting more Voxers! Especially since sitting down and having lunch with Steph and Jim was like sitting down with old friends. They are just really great people. And Steph was just adorable and pregnant. Seriously, why do all you Voxers have to live so far away? I always come away from meeting up with people thinking about how I could see myself hanging out with them on a regular basis if only they lived nearby. That said, the DC area is an awesome place to live. So move here. C'mon, you know you wanna!
- Still loving my iPhone. I'll upload the software update today and that should fix the few things that it has issues with. Despite those few things, it still rocks.
- My mother has a blog. Although, she has no clue as to how to find it. It's a diet blog through some calorie counting website. It just cracks me up because my mother is oh, a tad bit technologically challenged.
- Steve's iPod. I've stolen it so I can listen to some Mark Driscoll podcasts. Seriously, I don't know if I'm going to want to give it back. I guess I could upload podcasts to my phone and give it back. But it's just so much easier to take this. Although now I'd like to take a look around the iTunes store and see what else I can find that's really good.
So, I realized that when I have nothing planned and the kids are gone, I really really miss them. The house just isn't the same. Honestly, I really like my kids, as much as they might drive me crazy sometimes.
Steve doesn't have any leave time right now so that leaves me at home while he is working. Thursday wasn't bad. I got to see Marlen for the first time in what seems like forever. I would've like to have stayed longer, but Thursdays are "TV Thursday" at my house. I make dinner for Rob, "the new girl", and Gary, then we talk and watch lots of tv. I got homein just enough time to run around like a chicken with my head cut off attempting to clean and cook dinner. I made a lovely chicken jerky on the grill (unintentionally, of course). We attempted to finish watching the Battlestar Galactica miniseries, but just weren't feeling it. We ended up watching the Colbert Report and calling it a night.
I quickly checked my Vox before bed to see if Kelly wanted to meet up for lunch and she was still ignoring me. That's when a light went off in my head and I realized that it's her "weekend" and she doesn't have internet at home right now! I gave her a call and we made lunch plans. It had been almost a year since the last time we met up! Seriously, I'm not letting that much time go by this time and it's not just because she gave me some Cadbury Flake bars and lent me some awesome books. Kelly is just one of those people that I feel like I've known forever. We talked and talked and then talked some more. We were going to watch a movie from her impressive collection (she has awesome taste in movies), but we were enjoying talking too much. Side note, Sam is ridiculously cute. I completely understand why Kelly is wrapped around his paw.
I could've hung out and talked forever but Steve made plans with Rob and "the new girl" to go to dinner and see Get Smart. Gary and the non-blogging brother, Dan went too. So I had to head home. We enjoyed an awesome dinner that included lots of high fiving over things like meatloaf and Good Charlotte. Ok, Gary and I were the only ones that high fived over Good Charlotte, but we like them and we make no apologies for it.
Get Smart was just good and funny. I didn't go in expecting anything but to be entertained and I was. It may have helped that I have never watched an episode of the old Get Smart, so I had no expectations whatsoever.
Today, Steve and I slept in. We have a cookout to go to later. It'll be weird to go without the kids, but I'm sure we'll have a good time anyway!
Other than TeamVox, who was the first person you added to your Vox neighborhood? What made you want to be their neighbor?
Submitted by TheFiercestCalm.
Well, I was invited to Vox by Mrs. Groovy and Brown Eyed Girl (who is no longer here) back when it was still invitation only. I'm not sure who I added first out of the two. I've known them both since around 2001 through another blogging site. I just wanted to be able to comment on their blogs. Then I got hooked on Vox and abandoned my old blog.
The first friends I added that I didn't already know were TechMusicGospel, Jamie, and HannahBanana. I'm not sure which order, but I know they were among the first.
