Hope everyone has been having a great start to the summer! Mine has been a pretty good one I must say. In the last month Deidra's job has given her 2 raises! One for the gas price change, and one because I think they are afraid she will look elsewhere for a job due to the distance she has to drive to get there. I love that Deidra has a job that actually pays her for her job performance. My job is a job that pays you despite of it. Not to say I don't pull my weight, but there are those I have seen in the past 10 years that move up due to the time they put in...not the work effort. Will I become supervisor if I stay in my job...yes. Will it be because I am a great leader and someone who my workmates can look up to and follow? Although I would be a great supervisor and a hard worker..sadly these are not the reasons I would be chosen. Nope. I would be chosen specifically for the time I have stayed in my job and by passing a written exam that I would study for and of coarse pass. State work...nuff said.
Well we have been to six flags 4 times since it opened this spring and I have been to my first water park and busted belly first down a water slide for the first time since I was in my mid teens. Going to go there again real soon!
Dad has officially retired from work as of a couple weeks ago and is loving the home life! Although he officially has not seen home due to the fact that he took off to the islands right after his exit! Mom, Dad and my sister and two boys just got back from a long leisurely trip to the Virgin Islands last weekend. You know how when you leave your home and go on a long trip and when you get back you feel like you have had enough of vacations for awhile? Well they seem to have missed that memo. Mom and Dad are already planning our trip to the islands in the fall. Deidra and the kids are looking so forward to it! It's so close I can taste it! However I will have to call my brutha CJ on the weekends to see how the Bronx are doing. I will miss 2 games! Its all good...I will be thinking of them with a pina colada in my hand.
We have so many pics of our fun for the last couple months and I will make an effort to putting them on my computer so as I can post them up for you guys. However I do have some pics that were sent to me that I have to show you guys:
This is a pic from a "live" camera in the Virgin Islands. Shell called me up and had me go to this website and when I pulled it up..this is what I saw! Cool what the Internet has brought to our world eh? That is my mom and dad and my sisters 2 boys in the pic with my name in the sand. I was so excited to see it that I brought the kids down...of coarse they asked me to ask them to put their names on the sand as well:
They tried to get the names in before the water took them away..20 second lag time between pics but you can kind of see Hi Ray n Tay. That's my sister and one of her boys in the pic. Mom and dad are on the dock to the upper right coaching them on the job.I also have some great pics from CJ that he sent to me of his little girl. Such good pics I had to post em:
Cute little girl. The guy is my best friend in the world. CJ. As for his new beard as of late. Not sure what you are going for here bro. I don't know..what do you guys think? I'm leaning towards one of 3 guys:
Grizzly Adams
Jake Plummer
Or this guy.
"Don't make me bring back the wings!"
