Happy Post-Thnxgiv'g!

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend!

We did absolutely NOTHING these last few days, and it was everything I'd ever dreamed of.

For Thanksgiving day, Dave and I decided not to go see the Macy's parade again this year. Instead, we slept in, played Guitar Hero, and had our Turkey dinner over at Dorrian's Red Hand on Washington. They had a full pre-set Thanksgiving dinner, and it was awesome.

I'm actually home sick today, but Eric is back at work from his Thanksgiving vacation with family to take my place. The "thing" that's been going around has finally gotten to me. What really sucks is I've been out of paid days for a while, so this is another loss of wage. SUCKS. I'm still getting checks with a few days taken out from our cruise we took in September!

Christmas vacation is coming! We'll be driving all the way to Florida with Maggie to visit Dave's parents in our old town, Orlando, and then down to Palm Beach Gardens to my parent's where I grew up. Nine long days, no work...

Snovember 07!

I had suggested we do a "Snow Pool" at work this year to bet on who could guess the first day of snow, but I never got a free moment to do it. With all the wacky weather, I swore up and down it would happen in November. No one believed me! And dammit, I could have won some good money! It's supposed to snow tonight, some tomorrow morning, some tomorrow night, and some the next day!!!

Last year, we didn't get any snow until mid-January. This year is looking like it could be a very chilly winter!

Blogger.com wins!

That's it, I'm sticking with Blogger.com. It's been loyal, consistent and although it has it's difficulties at times, I'm willing to stick through it. I've tried using the software that was available after buying maggiesmood.com, but it's just not working out.

I'm currently pasting the last posts I did on the site. I'll be linking here directly from now on!

New website, cam and all!

All right, DOUBTERS.

I've got the computer. I've got the web domain. I've got the website. I've got the CAM. I may be eventually blogging there, too!

For now, I'll stay here. I'm testing out Network Solution's many applications. It sure is easy to upload photos to, rather than going through the many steps after sending them to Flickr... We'll see.

The web site will probably take a million year to complete, but at least I've got it started!
MAGGIESMOOD.COM!

I'm BACK!

This time, it IS for real! No, I SWEAR!!! This time I have it all worked out.

I just purhased a new iMac, and it should be here by the end of the week. I'm SO excited!!!!!! Dave and I even went to Home Depot this morning and had a bunch of wood custom cut so we could build a desk for the bedroom!

You have absolutely no idea how lost and miserable I've been without posting and being creative. I thought I could shake the obsession of sitting at my computer for 20 hours a week at home. Crazy.

I'll be working on my web site once again (will sharonland.com rise again?), and use my web cam to share our amazing view of the New York skyline! We moved to Newport (in Jersey City) in April and we have such a GREAT view of the city from every window in our apartment- I've been dying to broadcast it! It's finally become a reality!!

While you're waiting, the following has happened since I posted in March:

• Dave got his first tattoo for his 35th B-day in May: It's a great design of King Kong on the Empire State Building, swiping at bi-planes swarming around him...VERY awesome!

• I got my second tattoo for my 35th: a pretty decent-sized one across the nape of my neck. It's of the Incubus bird, vines with music notes/leaves branching out.

• Our English Bulldog, Maggie turned ONE in October!

• We still miss the hell out of Jeff.

• I am barely hanging on to the reigning champion title for Guitar Hero II (I haven't playing most of this year!) ...I refuse to buy Hero 3 until I fully complete 2...

• I've hardly played REAL guitar since last Christmas. =( ...cue GarageBand!!!

These last 22 months have been pretty much about work. I haven't been in a creative position since I moved to New York, very much the opposite of what I had planned. Getting back on track with blogging, illustrating and web work should help a ton while I work out the other half of my life.

Stay tuned! Expect something big to come around within two weeks! In the meantime, I'll be a'bloggin!