Photography

Well I have my first photography class Thursday night, I loved it!!!! I got free camera classes with my camera from Christmas. I was the youngest person in the room by about 10 to 15 years, with one of the nicest cameras. This class was an Introduction to Digital, alot of older people with their 1st (point-and-shoot) digital camera. It was cute watching all of those older people learn to use a digital camera.

I learned alot about:
* Primary Applications
* Sharing Electronically - there is another class about this that I am going to attend.
* Editing and Printing
* Using Images in Documents
* Archiving and Cataloging
* Photo Albums and Scrapbooking - different photo sizes.
* Operational Basics - I will learn more about my camera in the Nikon DSLR class on the 22nd.
* Understanding Aspect Ratios - more to come in Digital 1 & 2
* The image size - measuring pixels
* Understanding Resolution - more to come in Digital 1 & 2.
* JPeg - The "Compressible" Format
* Tiff - The "Uncompressible" Format
* Raw - The "Expert" Format - I would love to be able to shoot in Raw one day!!

I can't wait until my next class on the 17th of April, his classes are full but he told me I could bring a chair and join in. I am so excited!! I think I might go to some courses in Nashville sometime soon to learn more!! I really want to learn how to develop my own pictures in a dark room!! Here are just some pictures I have randomly taken:

My side yard the day it snowed!!

I love this picture of Anna Grace!

Jackson is really working with the blocks!!

A pic I took of myself and changed to black and white!!!

Mouse is out (I think)!!

Well I think my little friend is gone. He got off the first trap I set twice, so I got a better trap, but he has not showed up lately!! I hope he just got out because the other option is the trap and we all know what that will mean!!!

How did it get in my car????

Well, I have two questions; First off how does a mouse get in your car and secondly how do you get a mouse out of your car?

Yes I do have a little mouse in my car. I live next to the woods so I do get them in my garage (never in my house) from time to time. I just can not figure out how the heck it got in my car! Well here is the story of my little friend.

So, one day Lisa and I went to Lebanon to work, we decide to go to the ORIGINAL Cracker Barrel for lunch (Go ahead - laugh my corn maze friends)! After lunch we saw some Jelly Belly jelly beans and both wanted some. So since Lisa bought lunch I bought the jelly beans, original for Lisa and sours for me! We snacked on a few of them then put rubber band around them and put them back in the little Cracker Barrel bag. That night I put them in my back seat with my work bag so that we could have them the next day. Well that next morning when I went to pick them up the Cracker Barrel bag was torn open and my sours jelly beans had a hole in the bag and half of the jelly beans were gone!! The original jelly beans had not been touched!! This was the first signs of my little traveling buddy.

Things my little traveling buddy has accomplished:

- To eat my sour jelly beans

- To tear up a whole box of tissues in my back seat

- To tear up a travel pack of tissues in my front seat

- Put a hole my lunch sack and eat my crackers

- Some how put a hole in a water bottle and soaked my passenger side seat

- Last but not least, he got lose from the trap I set!!!

Some of my friends think this is just hilarious, not so much on my part!! So they have named him, his name is Finnigan but I call him Finn. I am about to go crazy, I want him out of my car before he dies in there and leaves an odor!! If you have any ideas let me know!! Below are some pictures of the little guys adventures in my car!!

Over half of what was left is gone!! That is going to be one fat mouse if it eats all of them.

It is hard to blow your nose with this!!

Merger week - cars!

Ok so on Monday March 3rd I had to be in Lebanon at 7:00am at one of our new office to be there support help. I decided to stay at my parents house because it cut my drive by about 20 minutes. For those of you who know me well know I am not a morning person, but I did manage to get up at 4:45am on Monday. So I get ready and go to leave but my tire is flat to ground! I had a little melt down and freaked out for a minute but I am so glad I was at my parents house because I ran in took one of their cars and arrived there at 7:00am on the dot!! So the reason I was upset about this is because this was a brand new tire!! I got my car fixed from my wreck and had two new tires put on at the end of February so I would be okay driving to Lebanon everyday. When my dad took it on Wednesday to get it fixed the guys said that they messed it up when they put it on but thought it would be okay. I am just glad nothing happened to it while I was driving!! The owner was not very happy with them at all because he knows me very well and was so upset that it happened to me. They fixed it and everything is good now!! That was a long week but fun!!!

Okay so we had a Murder Mystery Party back in October and I am just now getting my film developed. Here are some of the pictures from that crazy-fun night! The theme was The 8o's (as you can probably tell from the big hair and lots of make-up).

Very busy with the merger!!

Sorry I have not posted in a while! I have been really really busy!!!

Training, testing, conference calls, meetings, all day Saturday practice sessions, last minute trips to Nashville for a meeting, all day visits to Lebanon, ATM problems, schedule changes, 10 to 12 hour work days and much more!!

I was involved in our last merger with Pinnacle but not near as much as I am this time! I just found out Monday that I am in charge of closing one of the offices on Friday night, auditing and moving all the money to another location. I have alot of responsibilities with this merger. I really have come to enjoy all of this, it is fun but a little nerve racking.

By the end of March things will slow down. I have met alot of great people during all the training and testing. I will be in Lebanon for the first few weeks in March. I really like the office that I will be with the first week, well I really like going to all of them.

I have spent so much time with Lisa during all of this that we are dreaming about each other. It is really funny!

Okay enough about this, I will get back to normal things come April!!

Welcome to the world of Banking!!!

50 Things I Have Learned By Being A Bank Teller

1. I know everyone in the world, so I never need to ask for ID.

2. "I'll be with you in one moment," means "Come right up here into my business and breathe your popcorn breath in my face for a while."

3. Every bank in the world steals money from its customers, particularly from the ones that don't keep a transaction register.

4. I'm always kidding when I tell people a check is not any good. I'm a good kidder.

5. I know the balance of every account at the bank.

6. I am at the bank just because I feel like it. My window isn't actually open when I say, "May I help you?"

7. I know everyone's account number.

8. I know everyone's address.

9. I don't understand how banking works.

10. I have to do whatever the person who gave my customer the check said.

11. I don't know how to count.

12. I don't know how to add.

13. I don't know what the date is.

14. I can read everyone's mind.

15. If I ask for your social, Im trying to steal your identity.

16. I know when every new coin will be arriving.

17. I know how much everyones bills are for the month.

18. We don't sell stamps.

19. We are just here for fun on most holidays, we're not really open. We love it when you rub it in.

20. When someone asks how you want your cash back, your suppose to wait until I have it counted it back to you.

21. Apparently people have different definitions of commercial.

22. Your time is more important than mine. I have no life. When you show up 5 minutes before we close to make 10 deposits or open a new account, we don't mind.

23. Everyone with the Bank name tag is related.

24. I am also your secretary.

25. We love to place holds on your checks for fun. We are the only bank that does it.

26. 13 hours and 10 minutes is not enough time for people to do their business.

27. I am in charge of the never ending popcorn, smarties, lollipops, and coffee.

28. It is polite to ignore someone when they say hello.

29. It is my fault when someone cuts you in line. I should have been paying attention to you and not your money.

30. I know what a checkingdepositwithdrawal for savings is.

31. Being rude should make me want to help you more.

32. I am not really human. I should never make mistakes.

33. It is okay to walk into someone's office when their door is shut.

34. I have a secret collection of licenses in my cubby.

35. I can't hear. I need you to ding the bell 5 times in a row.

36. The sign that says "Next Window Please" is just for decoration.

37. I make people wait on purpose. It's fun to make them mad.

38. I know everyone's PIN number to their ATM card.

38. Fraud doesn't really happen to anyone. Therefore, I should give everyone exactly what they want.

39. The coin machine is my favorite thing to do.

40. The bank gives out free poinsettias at Christmas. We order them for you, not the bank. Display only means whatever you want it to mean.

41. Please and Thank You are forbidden words at the bank. We hate to hear them.

42. Checking and Savings deposit slips are EXACTLY the same, we just like all the pretty colors and wanted to make them more colorful. Marking through the word savings changes the deposit slip completely!

43. When I tell someone the same thing over and over, I'm just doing it for fun. I like to waste my breath.

44. We will break the rules for anybody as long as you gripe for more than 10 minutes..

45. I am a professional coin counter. Even when the machine is broken, I will count the coin for you by hand!

46. I am psychic. When you call I can recognize your voice and pull up your information automatically. My computer is voice activated. It's all that fancy technology we have.

47. You don't have to tell me that you've been with the bank for 50 years. I can tell.

48. Even after 5 years, I am a new teller to anyone who has never seen me before. If I've never met you, I have no idea what I'm doing.

49. I make the rules for the banking industry. You can blame everything on me!

50. I'm an idiot.

My favorite is number 48. I get this alot due to the fact I float between all the offices. I love it when someone tells me that, yet I waited on them two weeks ago.