Valentine's Weekend

This weekend I'm going to NJ to spend the weekend with Mike! I asked Jean Scalessa to substitute for me on Sunday so I can be in NJ and not have to come down in the middle of everything. We are leaving Friday morning around 10am from Philly and heading up there. We're going to this really good Japanese restaurant called Takara and basically just chillin out the rest of the weekend. It should be a good time!

Today I am heading into the church office around 11am to help Barbe with the network and the printer issues they have been having. Then I meet with Jean at 1pm to go over the music for Sunday. At 2pm, I have Worship Planning and then basically kill time until 5:45pm when I leave to pick up my parents from PHL. Should be a good time. I'm glad I'm getting away this weekend hah. Will post pictures when I return. Have a good weekend!

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Lonely Week

Hey y'all. A few little updates here:

• I reorganized my photo albums. There used to be just one which had low-digit tags and personal) but now there's two separate albums! [Personal] [Tags]
  
• After paying my February bills, I have very little money left over which sucks. Perhaps I shouldn't have quit Applebee's so soon...
• I will be re-taking the Series 6 around 2/26 - I will be studying hardcore in the meantime.
• This weekend I'm going to Mikey's place in NJ. Should be fun!

Yesterday, Alvina and I went to visit Mikey in Philly. We brought the camera and headed to Old City to take some pictures. Here are the highlights:






We got realllllly good sushi at Mixx Asian Bistro and then Alvina and I headed home. We had some film left over so we went to Drawyer's Cemetery right on Rt. 13 and took the rest of the roll. Here are those highlights:






Haha I'm DEFINITELY going to hell for that last picture.

Well I guess I'll post more later. I'm getting sleepy now.

Later ;)

Little Update

Perhaps the most important update is that I failed my first attempt at the Series 6 exam. I missed it by 5 questions! This means a month of waiting, a month without work, and a month without pay. Sucky but it's okay - I'll survive. I sent my score report to Keir and one of the instructors sent me a custom-tailored study guide, focusing in on the areas I did the most poorly in. I suppose I will be retaking the Series 6 around 2/26 or 2/27. More to come on that.

The good news is that after three attempts I finally passed my health insurance exam! I took it at 10am this morning (2/7). I studied for about two hours last night and took several practice exams so I felt extremely prepared. I wouldn't be surprised if I scored a 100% on the actual test. Two down, one to go...

Yesterday I ate lunch with Jean at Cafe Scalessa's on Greenhill Ave. I highly recommend it to anyone that likes authentic Italian food! I had homemade ricotta gnocchi with homemade butter cake. I didn't even know that you could make gnocchi out of ricotta! Ya learn something new everyday! After lunch I took a stroll through Paul's place and saw this tag right outside the shop:

After that I headed up to Greenville and saw this:

I love that blue tag! I am pretty much over black tags. In fact, I put the blue tag on my car; my black tag is hanging on the wall:



And for those of you who want to see my current license plate collection here ya go:

RI - 1942 --- SC Legislator - 1986 --- VT - 1929
PA - 1940 --- DE - 1964? --- PA - 1919

Pennsylvania tags in descending
order of issue from current to ~1970

My Delaware tag collection. Top-right plate is a rare
prototype tag made by 3M as part of a test by DE DMV.
Only a few were issued.

So now it's a waiting game. Now that the insurance tests are complete, I need to study every day in order to pass my Series 6 at the end of February. I am confident that I will pass it; it will just be a lot of work. Talk to you soon!