Goodbye Columbus

I have been out here in Ohio living w/ a friend (Tj) for over 10 weeks now. I am sorry that I have not been able to post, especially b/c I have this beautiful camera that was given to me for Christmas, but as I have said before my computer isn't exactly young anymore & doesn't let me update my blog. Hopefully a new one will be coming w/in the next few months but no promises.
I came to Ohio because my friend Tj knew just how much I didn't want to go home for the summer & when I was going through a little bit of a rough patch back in the winter he opened up his home to me and offered me a place to stay for the summer. So after thinking about it I took him up on his offer, I'm still not really sure if he was expecting that or not, heh heh heh. But I did and so as soon as finals were over & things settled down over the passing of my grandfather (we all love & miss you Pap.) I once again packed up my little gold cavalier (whom has been deemed Dee by the people that previously owned her) & moved to Columbus, Ohio. I immedially got a job at the Pet Palace; a high scale resort for dogs and cats. I have absolutely fallen in love w/ this job, the animals, and the people who I worked very closely with. If you're ever in Columbus and need a place for your pet to stay I highly reccomend this place. www.petpalaceresort.com . I also was lucky enought to live close by my sister, and my brother and his family. Spending time w/ them was pretty awesome.
Once again tho it is time to head back to school, which is a new one for me this year. I will be transfering to the University of Montana is Missoula, Montana. I leave tomorrow after my last shift at work and can't wait for the roadtrip across country w/ the Williams family. I just wanted to take this time to thank everyone for everything that they have done for me while I was out here & that I'm going to miss everyone, but don't fear, b/c (hopefully) you'll see me around Christmas.
Until my next post, *muah*

Best in Show

I attended my very first dog show today. And just to explain how much I was in my forte, I went on only 4 hours of sleep, the weekend before finals, getting up at 6:30, driving 30 min. to get there, and spent 9 1/2 hours doing nothing but taking pictures & watching dogs. I love dogs! Have I ever mentioned this before? If it was a breed of dog, it was there.


P.S. for any of you that had the opportunity to watch the Mayweather vs. De la Hoya fight, WOW!

Computers = Frustration

Hello all! I know that there has been a lot going on in my life recently, yet I've had hardly any posts. Unfortinately my computer after nearly 9 hard years of being a good computer is quickly starting to die on me. Being in college sort of pinches my finances so until I can scrap together enough money to get another computer it's going to continue to be difficult for me to update regularly.
After visiting the campus during my spring break & putting a lot of thought into where I am in my life and where I want to be when I graduate, I decided to apply to the University of Montana. Last week I found that I was accepted in the their Wildlife Biology program & not including this spring semester 44 of my 48 credits will transfer! If all of my credits from this semester transfer as well I will have 60 credits altogether and be counted as a Junior as well as be right on schedule w/ graduating in the year 2009. My only difficulty right now is trying to come up w/ the finances to pay for out-of-state tuition as I will be loosing a lot of money in scholarships that cannot follow me out west. If you hear of any scholarships that I could possibly apply for, do pass on the word by e-mailing me @ Groffhr@delval.edu (take note that my college e-mail has changed from @devalcol to @delval)
Next on my list is to get through the next two weeks of classes (I can't believe there are only two weeks left!!!) & then finally a week of finals. I'll be headed home for a week of rest then come May 19th I've taken a friends offer of housing & will be moving to Columbus, Ohio for the summer with the intent of making as much money as possible. I will be staying with my friend Tj for the summer but living w/in thirty minutes of both my older brother & his family, as well as my sister. I haven't lived this close to both of them since my brother graduated in '99 so this should make for an interesting summer (love you both!). Hopefully since Tj is a computer geek (sorry Tj, there is no other way to describe you so easily) I will have a little more luck w/ his computer on posting and possibly spare chucking my own computer out of a window.
Christopher sent me this photo he took the other day while doing a photo shoot at a wolf preserve out in Montana. He took it w/ film and developed this first print exactly the way he wanted to on the first try. This is a scanned copy so I'm sure the original is much more beautiful.

Today We Are All Hokies

Spring Break '07

I have a lot of pictures to share from Spring Break '07, unfortinately my computer is very old and quickly failing. In order to prevent a devastating loss of all my 1,000+ photos that I keep on it, I had them all removed and put on Christopher's external hard drive for safe keeping. Unfortinatley b/c of my computer's failing health, it is very difficult as well as a long process for me to update my blog now. I just happened to have these pictures in my e-mail b/c I was sending them to Christopher, so I hope you can atleast enjoy these until I get the money for a new computer. This may take some time :-( .

New pictures! I finally got my new computer so here I am posting some new photos from spring break last year! (9.26.07)

Happy Valentine's Day

Just quickly wishing everyone a Happy Valentine's Day. I hope you were surrounded by the love of the ones that you care most about and that it continues on for the rest of the year. *muah*

Lancaster General

Today I traveled to the ends of the earth. Okay, so maybe I didn't go that far, but I did take a nice little trip back in time to Lancaster city.
Mr. Williams is back from Pittsburgh and in in-patient therapy at Lancaster General. My biological family may be 5+ hours away, but it's nice to know that I have family like this so close to school. I had such an incredible day just chilling w/ these guys and I haven't laughed so hard in a while.