I HAZ SNOW?!

Well, Nashville has had beautiful snow since 10:30 Friday morning.  Abby and I have been somewhat stranded in our cozy home which means we've watched a LOT of movies, and eaten a LOT of junk food.  Neither of us like the cold but we love how fresh, clean and bright (Edelweiss?! haha) it looks outside.

 

My job has started out pretty great.  I really like the people and for the first time I'm very much working in a "team atmosphere" and I like that.  The goal is to make 100 calls a day and we keep track of them on a "tic sheet" and we put a tic mark for each call we make and then there are more boxes to say if they were a "connect" which means you actually talked to the church's youth leader, or you write if you left a message, etc as well as leaving notes in the database on the church's record so that the next person who calls them will know what they are facing.  We also leave notes like, "Secretary is kinda mean" just as a heads up. hahaha.  I actually made my first sale on Thursday right before it was time for me to leave, so that was a good way to end.  When someone makes a sale, you get to ring the bell on the ceiling.  It has strings spanning from it to each of the desks, so anyone can ring it, and that way it reinforces the team spirit---everyone rejoices when the bell is rung.

Yesterday Abby and I did get out of the house and we walked about 2 miles in the snow to Starbucks to meet our friends Valerie and Renee.  It was so cold, but so good to get out of the house.  Then Abby's bf Justin picked us up and took us to this Mexican place for dinner that I hadn't been to but I was thankful to discover (cuz it was really good!) and then we all went back to our house and watched movies/tv.  His car is safest on the road cuz it's a Subaru with 4-wheel drive and he's lived here for like 6 or 7 years and knows how to deal with the snow now even though he too is from Texas. 

I guess that about sums it up, I'm still probably going to play it safe today and not drive unless it melts a lot today.  It's bright and sunny and beautiful right now out there, so maybe later in the day it may be ok.  Till next time...

Thanks for reading. You stay classy.

Faith

Job Huntin' and Dog Hatin'

This will be succinct seeing as I am starting a job tomorrow!  Long story short, I was offered and took a part-time job (Tuesdays-Thursdays) at a small company called Interlinc.  They make Bible lessons for youth groups, but the cool thing is, the themes of the lessons are drawn from Christian music videos.  So they compile a dvd with current Christian videos and write a packet of lessons to correlate.  So.darn.cool. and right up my alley.  So, I will be playing the part of the salesperson and calling youth pastors to see if they want to buy these lessons/product.  However, this is "grad season", so I'll be selling more specifically the 2010 conGRADulations cd as a senior gift to the kids in x,y,z youth groups all across the country.  I wish I had gotten one of these cds back in 2005 when I graduated high school.  It's filled with encouraging music and other tools to help as you transition in a new phase of life.  I start training at 9 am tomorrow!

As for the other part of my title, the dog that belongs to the family I nanny for, decided to hike his leg on me the other day when I was taking him for a walk.  I stopped to talk to the neighbor, and ironically we were talking about how he is not a good dog and needs to be properly trained.....womp womp womp....Tyler the dog hikes up his leg and thankfully I have cat-like/ninja reflexes and I moved my jeaned leg just in time.  Then I yanked up on his leash so he dangled in the air for a few seconds as I YELLED, "I'm gonna KILL HIM!!".  Is that dog abuse?  Ooops.

In other news, I got a new camera and I can't wait to try it out at a show.  It's a Canon Powershot SX120.  It has a 10x zoom (the selling point for me). Whoop!

Last week I went to see Love and Theft in concert and they are AMAZING live...like oh so good.  I talked to my band member friend Brian afterwards and he proceeded to introduce me to fellow band-mate Stephen (who I had meet back in August) and Stephen totally remembered me!  It made my day. It was so cool.  Here's a picture or two from the show.

Brian, Stephen, and Eric = Love and Theft or (LNT)

FYI: Stephen Barker Liles of LNT is the Stephen that Taylor Swift's song "Hey, Stephen" is written about.  They opened for her on tour about 2 years ago.

I guess that is about all for now.  I hope everyone is well. Nashy is great. It snowed a bit today but it was too warm to stick.  I think more flurries are in the forecast this week.

Thanks for reading. You stay classy,

Faith

Nashville Visitors----it could be you too.

Why am I still awake at 3:47 a.m. you ask?  Well I ask myself that same question.  Why do I torture myself by drinking caffeine?  I always tell myself, "this time it will be different. I will defy caffeine and I will prevail.  It will not keep me up".  Well, fail. I always lose. Caffeine always wins.  This sounds familiar. Isn't that the definition of insanity?

d : inability to understand the nature and consequences of one's acts (as making a will) or of events, matters, or proceedings in which one is involved (via dictionary.com)

Welp, oh well. Maybe one day I will understand that caffiene > Faith's will power.

This will be a short post, but look at these fun pictures that COULD BE YOU!

My friend Cameron from A&M and his best friend Tabor were my first visitors to Nashville a couple of weeks ago.  They left Rosebud, TX at 4 am on a Friday morning and arrived at my door at 6:45 p.m. after a brief stop in Memphis.  We had a super fun time and then we drove back together (with my car too) just in time for Christmas.

This is outside Pancake Pantry (A Nashville staple)

Tabes and I chasing geese at Centennial (that's for you, Hillary)

Who's the king of the world?  Tabes...of course (I love this picture)

This is a total rip-off of when I had this idea last Fall in D.C. at the Jefferson memorial.

(haha, see?  That is from Nov. 2008)

We make cute pictures...just sayin'

Grand Ole Opry!! We didn't see a show sadly. We are broke.

We practiced our modeling skillz on the Ped bridge.

And we toured Studio B (famous studio where Elvis, Dolly, Roy Orbison, Charley Pride, and tons of other famous people recorded over 1000 hits).  We got to play that piano that the songs were recorded on.  I thought I was in a dream.

So that is a quick summary. It was way fun and now I know the "tour guide ropes" if you come visit me!

Thanks for reading. You stay classy, (it's 4:03, I am gonna try and get some zzzz's.)

-Faith G.