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Ride 4 Roswell!

Hey All, I'm doing the Ride 4 Roswell this year! Check out my page, ANY support would be much appreciated, this is a great fundraiser, and unfortunately alot of us have been affected one way or another by this horrible disease, let's get one step closer to putting an end to cancer forever!
http://giving.roswellpark.org/netcommunity/JamieG

BANDITS!!!!

So I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned before how AMAZING this team is! They have it all, heart, talent, action, excitement, the tickets are cheap and it’s a party every game! They started the season out pretty rough this year we lost a bunch of games, and one of our top players (if not THE top player) was out with an injury, which certainly had us freaking out, but Tavares is BACK and the BANDITS are back!! We’ve managed a seriously comeback and now we’re on the road to the playoffs!
GO BANDITS!!!!!


BUFFALO WHAT?!

Didi :(

Ok seriously I don't even want to talk about it! I am sooo utterly discussed and disappointed and SHOCKED! I really don't understand why Tim Urban is still in this competition who the heck is voting for him?????????????
Whatever .....idol sucks!

LOL

I'll just be wating for Didi to make an album on her own....please do it soon!

SPRING IS IN THE AIR!

Idol Update!

It's been awhile since my 2 cents.....so here's an overview of where I think this competition is headed. We'll see how these guys do tonight but all in all i'm thinking......yawn.......

One step in the right direction! (?)

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/19/interactive.health.care.benefits/index.html?hpt=Sbin

I personally think it's a positive thing. Health care has seriously gotten out of control, to the fact that some people go completely with out it because they can't afford it, some people get it completely for free, and others have to pay through the nose to be able to protect and keep their families healthy. And not to mention the OUTRAGIOUS salaries of the CEO’s of these companies and the record breaking profits! I’m talking billions people! I am lucky to work at a company that provides great benefits so I'm really not sure that this will effect me (us) at least not right now. But these few changes here will certainly mean the world to some people...
I know people (republicans) are freaking out about socialism (aahhhhhh - {Scare Tactics} I mean seriously I just read an article recently about how republicans got caught in the act about trying to use scare tactics to get things done) but first of all it's not socialism, and it's not universal health care - which has it's pros and cons but they have universal healthcare in so many other countries and their general happiness and way of living is off the charts compared to the US - just saying.

Anyways check out the link and let me know your thoughts on the matter....... (comments anyone?)

Eclipse Trailer...eeeeeeeeee!!

http://mashable.com/2010/03/11/the-twilight-saga-eclipse-trailer/

American Idol Top 12! Booooo HISSSSSS

Jamie Genovese Is anyone as OUTRAGED as I am about American Idol last night?
Julie Makeyenko Fulciniti thats why everyone should vote

Jamie Genovese I completely agree!! I did too for once, but it didn't save my Lilly! :)

Julie Makeyenko Fulciniti i really like her toooo

Lindsay Walsh I can't believe she's gone! She was my favorite!

 Jamie Genovese I know! I'm happy that Didi made it tho, I love her, but i'm sad for Todrick and Alex, I thought they were soooo much better than Tim (ugh) LOL

Jen Kapsiak I am only sad for Lilly! I thought for sure she would be in the final 4 with Crystal, Michael and the one Kara likes (I forgot his name).

 Jennifer Faber Barry I really liked Lily too...I thought Katie Stevens was going to be gone for sure...I also liked Alex WAY bewtter than Andrew...

Jamie Genovese @ Jen K Casey James! Yes I like him too
@ Jennifer B - I was SHOCKED when they said Andrew over Alex (even tho i liked Andrew) And SHOCKED when they said Katie over Lilly, i mean WHAT? All the while Tim is sitting there and i'm SHOCKED over that too, sorry i'm waaay too passionate about this LOL


 Jennifer Faber Barry I think that some how there are always a couple that sneak through on "America's Vote" so people can see them improve over the 12 week period...just a theory.. this is how much I remeber Tim?!? when you first sadi his name i had to go to the web site to see who he was..he wasn't even an original pick for the top 24

Jamie Genovese I KNOW and he STINKS! LOL I mean he did waaay better this past week but he soooo wasnt better than Todrick and Alex. I'm going to start a show called "Jamie's American Idol" LOL

Jennifer Faber Barry lol

NEED I SAY MORE?!

Isn't Married life GREAT!?

So many people have asked me "how's married life" in the past 6 months that I've lost count! It's a wonderful question though, one that I love answering! I usually say the same thing, "it's great! not much different though!" Which is true - it's not much different. I guess the major difference is that I can call him my husband, which I just love doing by the way :)

Dave and I have been together for 6 years now (WOW!) and so when we finally did get married we really already had everything married people usually have, a family (Jared and of course the fur babies) a house, a bank account, etc, etc. So really it's just a piece of paper (I hear people say this) but really it's so much more... I have a sense of security now, it's different from before. If you would have asked me before we got married if I had a sense of security I would have said yes, ask me again and yes, but it's so much different. It's intimate, it's beautiful, it's powerful, it's love. It's not something I can describe without just feeling it, and I do feel it. Every morning when I wake up to his kisses, every night I look into his eyes before I fall asleep. Every day that I grab for his hand, reach for his embrace, share with him a smile. It's all the same stuff, that we've always done but now we're married and I'm so aware of it. It's beautiful! I tell him all the time that he's stuck with me now and he tells me that he's happy to know it. I think I know we have the goods to make this last, I'm happier now than I've ever been, and everyday it seems stronger and more wonderful.
So ask me again, how's married life?? "IT'S FANTASTIC!!!"

American Idol Week 2 Results

Ok so here are the results for week 2!!! The only person I'm not so happy about is John Park, surprising enough! I had him at the very bottom of the guys list but last week I thought he did pretty good! So no I don't think he was good enough to win the whole competition but I do think he deserved to stay at least another week. But se la ve.

The ladies I agree with 100% (even though I kind of liked Michelle's spin on Creed. I also think that Katie is growing on me. And I have to honestly say that I think Chrystal is ridiculously OVERRATED! The judges are all about her this season and it's really getting old, ok yea she can sing but comon she's not gods gift to the competition, and can we give Didi a little credit here?! She's AMAZING and the judges were so rude to her on Wed that they made her cry!!!!

ugh the judges are really falling off this year, with Kara's ridiculously embarrassing moments with going gaga over Casey and then how she took it waaaay too far by insulting his performance and calling his voice DIRT!? She's really got some nerve. And seriously stop the remarks about Casey, ok he's hot we get it and we agree. What's not Hot is thinking about Kara thinking he's hot, that's gross! (can you tell I don't like Kara, LOL) I keep seeing flashbacts of Kara flashing her gross stomach and non exsistant chest to try and one up bikini girl (who, let's be honest was an A-hole but at least she had a nice bod!) And one last thing about the judges this year that is really pissing me off, their total inconsistency of week to week and contestant to contestant. For example, make it your own but not too much, then they do a little and according to them it sounds exactly the same, I mean WTF are they even talking about half the time?  Then somehow it's sounds different in the studio then it does at home, so Ellen thinks it sounds worse in the studio but Simon regrets saying someone was good because it sounded worse at home?! Whatever I'm floored by who they like and who they don't this year and I swear it's a conspiracy, something is going on and I don't' like it one bit!!!



Go Didi!!!

To do list

I've always considered myself to be a very organized person. I make myself crazy if I don't keep myself organized. I feel like thoughts and ideas and things to do are always floating around in my head, unsupervised and reoccurring. They tend to stay that way too unless I get them out in some organized fashion. Enter iPod. This thing is amazing by the way, it can do everything! I can play games, listen to music, surf the web, pay my bills, watch TV, it's endless. But this post isn't about how awesomely amazing this device is (although I should make one, and ode to the iPod type of thing...)
It's more about the to do list. I was walking the dog this past Saturday and thinking to myself about all the things that need to get done, I had just spent most of the morning and early afternoon cleaning the house, doing laundry and just trying to get things put away and organized. Which is really not the thing I look most forward to doing on the weekends, but tis life... I felt like I made most of the difference in the bedroom, I was very proud of myself thinking that it looked like a hotel room, everything put away very neatly and no clutter to be found, and as I was walking with Gabby and thinking about this I realized I still had so much to do! ugh! It seriously never ends but I'm so thankful at the same time for all that we have. I can get all miserable thinking about how the house is never perfectly clean enough, the laundry's never ending, we always have some meaningless bunch of stuff laying around in one corner or another, but at the same time, we have a beautiful home, a lot of really nice things to fill it with, and let's be honest between the clothes that Dave and I both own and Jared's share if I ever did get caught up on the laundry completely I'd have no where to put it all!!!
But I've veered away from the topic at hand once again, I was telling you about my to do list, I was looking at it this morning and I couldn't help but to laugh at myself and how sometimes I can be so anal with little specific things, so here's the list including a little look into my psyche for your own amusement!!

Things to do
- Install Dishwasher - CHECK! Wooo hoooo
-Scan in old Photos from Grandma's albums - we actually just bought a new scanner for the Mac so I should be on the go with this one soon
- Make DVD back ups of pics (since our HD crashed - thankfully we didn't have much on it - I've been obsessing over backing up all our old pics
- make photo books/prints - nowadays with the digital cameras I find that I hardly ever get prints of pictures that I take, they all just sit in files in the computer, and if I ever did completely loose those I would be devastated (over 5 years of visual memories)
- clean basement -ugh but yes it must get done
- organize photos into albums - for all of the prints we actually do have they're all just loose in some box, it would be nice to have some rhyme or reason to it
- organize important paperwork
          * desk drawer
          * attic
          * china cabinet - that's right folks we have our "important paperwork" in three different spots into he house! What we need to do is to get a filing cabinet and keep it upstairs with the craft desk, this way all of it is in one spot. But that first includes me going through it all to decide if it's still in fact "important"
- clean out the desk - yea that too
- clean out the china cabinet - yep, yep
- organize closet and clothes - poor Dave, he has his clothes in three different spots, in our bedroom in the dresser(s), the spare room is for his work wardrobe and Jared's closet is for everyday ware (hoodies, jerseys, t-shirts). I would like to get his stuff out of the spare bedroom (soon to be baby's room - not too soon though!) and get it all into my closet, but of course that means first - organizing the closet and getting rid of alot of stuff we don't' need anymore, I swear we could open our own good will
- get dress cleaned, yep it's still sitting in the closet looking out at me! I still put it on sometimes too, lol. I first need to figure out what I'm doing with it though, am I cleaning it to keep it or to sell it? I'm not sure so there it sits.....
- sell two other dresses - yes "two" other dresses. They were both supposed to be for the Trash the Dress photo shoot. I bought the first one really early and then a couple months before the wedding I found the perfect one so I ordered that too, in hopes to sell the other one right away but never got around to it. Craigslist here I come!
- organize wedding stuff and sell - on our third floor we have boxes and boxes of stuff from the wedding, such as the ring pillow, baskets, linens, candles, etc. Alot of really cute stuff that I bought used and could totally resell. Most of the stuff that was put out at the wedding was ours, the only thing we actually rented were the chair covers, (god I LOVED those chair covers!) So yea, we have to do that too.....
- learn Photoshop and take more pictures!!!! - this is hard, working full time and trying to really get into this new hobby, there's so many ideas I have and so much I wanna do but by the time I get home, take the dog out, start dinner, do the dishes (not anymore!! although the dishwasher will still be slightly time-consuming but not nearly as bad) workout (when I feel like I'm not going to fall flat on my face) there's not much time left to plan for a photo shoot. It might sound like an excuse and maybe it is but during the week I'm so darn tired when I get home, maybe I'll be more refreshed once the weather finally breaks but we definitely take full advance of the camera when we can, and I have lots of plans for more shoots to come. The learning the Photoshop part is tricky too, it's a very large program that lets you do just about anything but it's hard to remember it all and figure out what everything means, I'm getting there, watching tutorials online and teaching myself, I'm taking alot of notes too but it gets old quick, I can't do too much at once or it's like system overload, I'm totally the type of person who wants to just jump right into things before actually knowing how to do them, it's great when it works but photoshop is alot more complicated than that. Maybe in the future it will be like the matrix where you can just download the information into your brain and then you know it all, that would be right up my ally!!!
And last but not least....
- create an Amazing Songs playlist! - you know how there are those songs that you just love? and when you hear it come on it's like shhhhhh listen, this song is amazing!! here are a few of mine - Black Velvet, Stairway to Heaven, Breathe Me (lady croissant), I wish you were here (pink Floyd), Beautiful disaster - Acoustic (Kelly Clarkson), Colorblind (counting Crows) Ok I think you have the idea, and with oh I don't know 3,000 songs on the iPod I would really love to be able to single those songs out into an Amazing Songs playlist, so gotta do that one too.....

Ok so there you have it, I hope you don't feel differently about me after this, LOL
I think alot of this is stemming from the fact that we're starting to really talk about having a baby and if it happens fast I would love to have all these things done, because enter newborn I can imagine that this list of things to do will no longer even be on the list of things to do priority wise.

American Idol Week 1 Results

grrrrr that's how I feel after this week!


One of my favorite girls was booted this week and I don't understand why, I think there is a lot of talent on the girls end this year but I also believe there were AT LEAST 5 girls that did worse then Janelle and I'm shocked that she was first to get kicked off! I'm bummed needless to say but I am also guilty of not voting (I know I know) but I didn't think I needed to because it was so obvious who the weak links are (not to name names but Haeley, I mean c'mon people!) I think the other choice of letting Ashley was correct, I think she has a great voice and it may have even been a bad choice of song that ultimately sent her packing but I still don't think she would have won the whole thing so either now or later.......
So next week I'M VOTING!!!! Until then here are the results and list of favorites

And now for the boys......
grrrrrrrrrrrr once again I don't' think America got this right! And I'm stunned that Joe didn't get another shot, I'm not sure how he would add up to some of the bigger talent as the weeks went on but I certainly didn't expect his idol journey to end so soon.....
Tyler I wasn't sure of, I did like him at first but I get what the judges were saying about how gimmicky he was. And it didn't seem sincere, he was trying to hard to be exactly like Jim Morrison and it didn't seem right, it didn't seem like he really believed it. I would have been very interested in seeing what he would have come up with in the weeks to come but unfortunately we wont' get the chance to see what Tyler can do :(

THIS IS....AMERICAN IDOL!

Ok so American Idol!


One of my all time favorite shows, it got old for some people I know but I love it! and I also love that Dave and I can actually watch it together (even though we tend to argue throughout the show, so bad that last night Jared had to holler at us!)
Ok so here is where I'm going to offer my picks for favorite of the week, and counting down to who I think will will the all time title.

AND FOR THE BOYS......

my sweet love

My most profound moments have been with you... talking of life and death, spirituality, sex, emotion
I worry, sometimes uncontrollably, without rationality
and you set me back down.....to earth
calm, sensitive, realistic
you see me, really see me
and I know you


our love is amazing
and I cherish every last moment with you

my sweet love

There you stood,
holding me,
waiting for me to notice you.
But who are you?
You are the truth,
outscreaming these lies.


You are the truth,
saving my life.
      
                   ~ FLYLEAF

LIFE! Inspired

Picture Story!

So most of you know that for my birthday my amazing wonderful husband bought me a Nikon D5000 professional grade camera! And for christmas my wonderful family went in to get a new a new zoom lens! Here are some pics to show you how we've been doing with it.....

Most of these are unedited (aside from a few) I have to get better with learning the camera settings and using photoshop, so i'm moving along slowly but surely.
Hope you enjoy there's more to come soon!!

Dear John...

Ok so I finished Dear John (by Nicholas Sparks) over the weekend and although I did enjoy the book I was less than thrilled about the ending. For those of you that haven't read the book yet and plan to please don't continue to read this as there will be spoilers! **(you've been warned)***


So I think my biggest problem with the whole thing is that John didn't end up with the girl!? I get the selfless act of love at the end, he left her alone to be with her husband, he anonymously gave her the $ to get her husband the best care possible at MD Anderson, which most likely ultimately saved his life, but WHY WHY WHY did he let her go!? IT was obvious to me that he still loved her and even more obvious that she still loved him. Yes she loved her husband too but not the same way, she knew it, John knew it, for heaven sake even her husband knew it!!! So again I get it, but I don't like it, lol

And then at the end he's watching her and she comes out to look at the moon??!! REALLY??? I mean if that's something she still does it means John is on her mind daily, and yeah she stayed with her husband but holding that love for someone else in your heart takes away from your relationship with the person you're with. Tim stole her away in the first place, yes she knew him first but they weren't in love, and they weren't together then. I understand how things happened, John reenlisted in the Army and Tim tragically lost his parents but that doesn't excuse the fact that they found comfort and convinence in each other which is why they were together. And really it's Savannahs fault for marring Tim if she was in love with someone else. In the book she said "I tried to convince myself so many times that it would have never worked out with us" but why? I mean it just seems to me that she used Tim to get over or though her relationship with John while he was in the Army, maybe she just married him because she was guilty for using him and being a religious (and ultimately good person) she figured it was the right thing to do, any maybe that's why she stays with Tim in the end. But excuse me doesn't anyone notice that no one in this scenario is truly happy? I mean how could they be, Savannah although she loves Tim loves John more, Tim as much as he loves Savannah knows this, and John is left alone at the end, knowing Savannah is the only women he's ever loved, truly loved. ugh....not happy people......not happy!

on a side note I heard the movie was fantastic (not to mention the gorgeous actors)! Hopefully the ending is different....but in any case I'm very much looking forward to seeing it.