by jltitus on March 11, 2007
Isn’t it funny how you can go a week or more and not journal but have a ton to say? I mean, I enjoy journaling and posting here and getting comments and everything but I’ve not been journaling/blogging for about a week. Hummm…. I guess it could be because I’ve been busy with things. I know that’s an excuse for everyone. I have been working, which I’m loving. I love my job and the people I work with. it’s so nice to work with people that have a common goal and interest. It’s great too that I’m working on the projects I’m working on. I mean I’m helping make some decisions for the future of the training organization. How cool is that! I’m doing the typical, create training courses for online delivery but I’m also in charge of determining and giving recommendations for authoring tools we’ll use for now and in the future. I’m working on moving some of our content, like manuals to wiki’s, which is super cool. I could give you the link and password but then I’d have to kill ya… HAHA… I’m working on developing some Instructional Design Standards and templates for us to use which is cool too. It’ s just so nice to have such growth opportunities. it’s the stuff I’ve always wanted to be doing but haven’t had the opportunity in my last job for a variety of reasons.
This weekend Eric’s parents were here which was so nice. I love it when they come, or my mother comes because we always have a great time and it’s not a high maintenance, gotta make sure they have something to do, sort of thing. Of course we had great food and exceptional company while they were here but I think the best part was playing Pinochle for a couple of hours. Of course this time the guys beat us but usually Juile and I are the winners. Oh I also need to say THANKS a TON to BOB for getting the cable up in the garage with the curtains. If not for Bob and Eric, I don’t know when it would have gotten done..
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by jltitus on December 26, 2006
I love Christmas for a lot of reasons. I think the biggest reason is that I love being with family, celebrating time together, spending quality time together, catching up and just being together. This year was no different. I was a little worried because Eric had to work right before Christmas Eve and then the day after Christmas which meant we’d have a short visit but everything worked out.
Christmas eve was spent with Eric family. We ate a ton of food, put puzzles together and just spent time together. and I had dueling laptops going for quite a while and at the end of the evening we took a little time to open a few presents. it was a nice night. I had the kids open their PJ’s so they could wear them. They both looked so cute.
Christmas morning we all got up and had a wonderful Christmas breakfast of blueberry pancakes, and bacon. yum…. made a great breakfast for us all. and and Miles and Beth were nice enough to come over a littler early so we could all have breakfast together and then open gifts. Ordinarily it wouldn’t have been an issue but we needed to leave by 11am to make it to yakima for my mom’s family Christmas. It was so much fun opening gifts but watching the kids open and play with theirs was the best. They are both really growing up to be big kids.
The Nathlich Family
I really did have a great time at the Titus house for Christmas but I have to say, going to Yakima and having a HUGE Christmas with my mom, brother, grandma, aunts, uncles, cousins and their kids was the best. I can’t even remember the last time we were all together like that. It was great too because I was able to get a picture of everyone before any of us left. It really made me appreciate my family and appreciate the big Christmases we used to have. I love having a ton of people for the holidays. I had a great time touching base with my cousins and just being together.
All in all this year was great. The weather cooperated, we got to be with family, spent time with my family that I haven’t seen for quite a while, and had great food.
Next year… Christmas at our house!!! Can’t wait!!
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by jltitus on June 25, 2005
Today was AWESOME! We had a whole bunch of people over for a BBQ, it was so nice. We had Eric’s brother and family, guys from Eric’s basketball team, some of my friends from Intel and the neighbors. It was such a great group of people.
The weather was wonderful and so nice that we were all able to hang out outside and chat without being super hot. It was a great afternoon. I think everyone had a great time. We all had things we could talk about and I don’t think we talked work (Intel) much at all which is really hard to do when you’ve got a bunch of people from work. Everyone brought something to the potluck. The food was so great. We had wonderful salads, and desserts for everyone. Eric made this great lemonade too. Man it was great!
Most everyone left by 7 or 8 but Mike and his family stayed and we watched some TV. We watches the first two episodes of 30 days and a few other shows. It was so great to all hang out together, watch some TV and chat about things. Mike’s kids are so well behaved. I was so impressed. His kids are early teenagers. Not once did I see them pull one of their parents aside and ask to leave or give the look that they didn’t want to be here. Very impressive! It was such a great night, I hope that we can get together with them more and have something like a games night or something. I guess we’ll see.
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by jltitus on April 10, 2005
Eric turned 30 this year…. He’s not young anymore….For his birthday dinner we went to PF Chang’s. It was such a wonderful night after an exhausting day for everyone. We had a great time at Chang’s. We need up getting something like 6 different dishes and having a bit of everything. it was so yummy. The best was dessert. We go two of the great wall of chocolate cake desserts. It was awesome, six layers of chocolate cake, a little warm and everything. Tasty.
Happy Birthday Eric!!!
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by jltitus on June 12, 2004
Saturday I didn’t do a whole lot, I read my book a lot and finished up the work I was supposed to do for one of my clients (SBA) so that I could enjoy the rest of the day. Eric and I played with Baylee too. She loved it at Bob and Julie’s. She loved all the fields and grass to run in. I caught her several times chasing birds allover the place there. It was too much fun for her.
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by jltitus on November 30, 2003
Today Eric and I met his parents at Greg and Hollie’s for breakfast. I had an almond croissant?. I love those things and especially from Beaverton bakery. Bob and Julie had stopped and got us all breakfast treats. After breakfast Bob, Julie, Eric and I walked over to the model homes and look in the windows. We couldn’t go in because the place didn’t open until noon. We also look in the houses that we’re thinking about. Bob and Julie talked to us a while about it and gave us great things to think about. At noon Eric and I went back and got the key so we could look in the homes that were done that were the model we liked. At first I thought we’d love the more expensive house, just because but it ended up that we liked the house that was 10K cheaper. After seeing the houses and talking to the broker, etc we signed a promissory note. I couldn’t believe it? we were going to put an offer on a house?..Eric even suggested it before I could get it out of my mouth. We spent the next three hours filling out paperwork and applications, etc. Now it’s the waiting game. I’m hoping it all works out and we can get the house. Not only because I’d love to own a home but because it would be nice to not dump money down and empty hole. Guess we’ll find out soon.
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by jltitus on November 9, 2003
Eric and I are still in Ellensburg. I took tomorrow off so we could have a good long weekend. Eric’s mom made us all waffles this morning. She’s so nice. Every time we come she makes breakfast and takes care of us. It’s not like we expect it she’s just so nice. I appreciate it so much. I often offer to help clean the dishes and things link that but she takes care of it or we convince the boys to do it. I love Julie.
I love Eric. It’s funny to think that we’ve been together for almost a year and a half. About a year ago we moved into together. How different was that. I remember then being excited and yet and the same time nervous, nervous that I was going to do something to totally screw things up. We’ve had little bumps along the way but I can really say I LOVE ERIC. Every day he does something little that makes me love him even more. He’s so good for me. He keeps me sane and level headed. he brings so much into my life and then to try and put that into words is beyond hard, it’s near impossible. It’s funny, we tell each other alot “I love you” and yet those three words are so small but mean so much. They’ll never capture the degree that I love Eric. OK, I gush too much.
Today Julie and I went to Othello to see my mother and raid her house. I collected all the photographs she’s got and I plan on scanning them all and burning them on CDs. I really want to make sure to capture them all and organize them now so that maybe I can use them in scrapbooks and things. When we were in Othello mom took us to Eagle Creek Lodge, the new lodge on radar hill. Julie had never been there before. It’s got a beautiful view of the area, even better when it’s not overcast. We happened to run into Josh’s friend Gabe. I guess he’s a cook there. When we were done we went back to my mom’s and I started collecting all the photos. What a project. It was sort of cool though I found a bunch of my grade school photos. You know, the ones with the lame background of the clouds, or something like that. She had them for every year. WOW… I even remembered some of the clothes. One of the pictures I had this dress that my mother made me. I was so happy. I had a smile from ear to ear. I really need to copy those pictures and scrapbook them. Won’t that be a HUGE project….
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