Sept. 2, 2009

Where to start. For the past week I have been heading up the social networking e-marketing campaign at work. For any one who reads this, I work at the Newberry Opera House, in Newberry, SC. I have been updating social networking pages and blogs. Thinking of things to say and talk about all day. It is amazing how exhausted that can leave you. I really love doing it, I just didn't anticipate feeling like I was doing so much. I guess, I can take some comfort knowing that I am getting some really good experience that will always be useful to me in the future. I have been working on my creative writing skills. Though what I write isn't very imaginative. I have found some pretty good resources online to help guide me along in the social networking world. I would share them now, but I do not feel like pulling up the web pages. You can find links to these pages on my facebook account: www.facebook.com/jallengraham. There is a facebook page icon on the side of this page that can automatically take you there. :)

In my quest to gather information on what I am doing, should be doing, and need to be doing. I checked out a book from the Newberry County Public Library, after getting my library card, entitled Practical Publicity! by, David Tedone. This particular edition has a copyright from 1983. So, there is not anything on E-marketing, but it has a lot of information I have found really useful after kind of translating it in my head for today's internet market. It has been a good rent. It is due back on the 9th of this month, I am not sure I'll be reading and note taking by then. We will see.

It has given me some really good ideas not only for the Newberry Opera House but for my music project. As far as, getting people interested in it and getting it off the ground. I have been working on some songs that range from Bill Withers to Red Hot Chili Peppers, to Victor Wooten. Most are original musical arrangements that I have put together for the songs I really love. Not so much as an attempt to be different, but to arrange it for solo bass where I could play what I need to play for the song to sound like what I think it needs to and sing at the same time. Which reminds me, I need to break out the metronome and practice tonight. I think tonight I will time out the tunes I am doing. Get more of idea of how long of a set I am working with. That is my wife's favorite part. The metronome that is. I think the constant clicking drives her crazy. I am glad she is supportive of me and just tells me to "do it" already. Which I should and I will.

She is a good woman and I am still learning so much about her. There is so much I do and will do that I couldn't do without her and she smells good. Lately it feels like a lot of things with me, her, and our family are falling into place. Perhaps we are all getting used to it and it is feeling normal and stable for all of us. Which is great. We both seem so get up and go and on top of things. Something has definitely been changing just like the seasons and I love it. I love seeing my wife with a smile on her face everyday. I think maybe her 2 years of 2 pregnancy hormones just might be starting to stabilize. Thank God! ;) just kidding honey, if you read this. I am proud of you Elizabeth or should I say, you make me proud.

Tonight when we put the kids to bed we read four books to them. They both love it when they get read to. Though with both of them at once it is hard to get them to sit still for the entire reading. Noah is getting so smart. He can point out all of the animals in his books all of the colors and that is all thanks to Elizabeth. He also knows his manners.. and he is very consistent with "Excuse Me" when he lets out certain bodily functions and little Juliana is walking up a storm with almost no stumbles or "Uh Oh's" as she calls them. Every time she stumbles there is this little voice that says "Uh Oh" and it is incredibly cute. I am so proud of my children.

I am proud of my family! Here are a few pictures of some proud moments. Couldn't find any recent pictures of Elizabeth but she is there in spirit. Love all of you Grahams.

Till next time, Peace, ~JAG