The Blog of Bert Jones

I may be taking a hiatus from Project 365.

I was sick a few weeks ago, and it made it hard to keep up with, since I wasn’t going any­where or doing anything.

And since then, I have had  a lot going on.

The other part is that I really want to use my big camera. But with my odd hours, its hard to really take that thing every­where, so I end up using my phone, and that wasn’t really the ini­tial point of this project.

I may start where I left of in the near future, if things calm down and I can figure out a better way to use my big camera.

Turtle Mocha

I knew it was going to be a LOOOONG night, so since I was going to work ear­lier, I thought I would stop and get me a pick-me-up to make sure I could stay awake!

I ordered my usual turtle Mocha, without nuts; but, when I got to work…sure enough…there was nuts in it…the night just got worse after that.

Orange Chicken

I hav ebeen craving some LeeAnn Chins. THe only one that I can really go to is the one by my work, since I pass it. But it closes so darn early.

Well, since they adjusted my sdchedule this month, I have been get­ting to work, when stuff is still open!

So I treated myself to some Orange Chicken. Not as good as the one in Market Square, Down­town Min­neapolis, but still good.

Eewww

I hate aller­gies. I go through so much kleenex and my nose gets so sore…

Nom Nom Nom

This is my treat drawer at work.…yummy!

Ahh­hhhh

Todays photo is my new shower head.

I had been com­plaining to Amy about our old sta­tionary shower head. I couldn’t move it, so I never felt “clean” enough. So she went out and bought me a shower head that I can take off the sup­port and move around. (I’m sure you know the type).

Its really the simple things that make me happy. (Although, expen­sive techy gifts make me really happy too!)

Grey Screen of death

Today’s photo is from my com­puter at work. They are only 4 years old (we think), but they run con­stantly 24-hours a day. So they get a work out. Mine’s fan will turn on and it sounds like its going tot ake off!

But this screen is espe­cially fun. You basi­cally lose all your work, unless you recently saved.

So on Friday night we got to hang out with Katie and Troy for a dinner and a movie.

I can’t say enough about Katie and Troy. I am so blessed to have them both in my family’s life.

They are super awe­some friends (I would even say their my best friends!) who come to just about all our family func­tions (I guess that would make them family wouldn’t it!?) They try to come to all our kids school events, birth­days, what have you, when they can make it.

Katie even helps out Amy and I in our Cre­ative Mem­o­ries busi­ness; not only as a cus­tomer, but as an idea maker, planner, and even (like this Friday Night) a worker bee.

Troy is equally as awe­some. He built my com­puter (which kicks ass!) and is very knowl­edge­able. He has helped me with some web coding projects (that I wouldn’t have been able to take on without him) and we are both geeks and have plenty in common to talk about. And like me, he’s a gamer (but much better at it…he under­stands WoW gear stats…)

I didn’t have a whole lot of friends growing up, so its great to have friends in my adult life that I can just call and say “I need people” and they show up with dinner (yep, they did that. I was having the worst day of my life, and they showed up with take-out for the whole family.…)

We even watch out for each others aller­gies. We even gave up sodium (as much as we can, its hard to find stuff low sodium) to help them with their tran­si­tion to low sodium.

I couldn’t imagine what my life would be like with out them. (Thanks Katie and Troy, you guys are the best and I luv ya!)

Okay, I went off on a tan­gent. Anyways.….back to why I am writing this post.

We ate at the Flame in Roseville and then saw Clash of the Titans in 3D. (I won’t go into huge detail, but basi­cally: a) we had crappy ser­vice from the wait­ress even though she kept calling me sweet­heart and dar­ling, b) we shopped at the mall to kill time; c) I liked the orig­inal Clash better. But this one was good.)

While we were shop­ping, Katie, Amy and I all went to Godiva to get our free monthly choco­late (we’re all club mem­bers) and I saw these cute little choco­late (orange crème) chicks for Easter. There was 6 in a box, per­fect for my family, so I bought them.

We had Easter on Sat­urday, but I finally go around to eating mine tonight.

Chocoalte Chicks (with a choco­late orange crème filling) NOM NOM NOM

The Good Olé’ Days

I was snack-y hungry today during work. So I prowled the vending machines.

I spied this sand­wich, and I never thought I would see just a cheese sand­wich in a vending machine.…brought me back to my youth. (No, I didn’t buy it, the Ched­dar­wurst won out instead).

Dominic, Riley, Mikayla, Courtney (Easter 2010)

Today’s photo involves an entire photo shoot!

Every Easter and Christmas (and some­times Back to School) I get our family together for a photo shoot. It helps keep me in practice.

So this photo is a sneak peak of what is in the works (lots of color cor­recting to do, to make it just right!)

(p.s. I apol­o­gize, but please don’t ask for a dig­ital copy, none will be made avail­able, but I will post once the set is com­plete and uploaded onto smugmug, then you can pur­chase your own prints.)