What's up with Elisabeth & George?: Are you on Geni yet?

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Are you on Geni yet?

With a world of networking websites out there to play with do we really need another one? There is the infamous MySpace, which I've tried to give a chance, but still hate, there's LinkedIn for business networking which I am not interested in. And trying to compete with MySpace there is also Hi5 and Facebook among many, many, MANY others. My favorite of the pack so far (by far) is Facebook, and if you're not on there yet, GET THERE, then send me an invite to be your Facebook friend!

I get invitations regularly from friends asking me to join more networking sites. No thank you! But! I have to tell you that if you're interested in family networking, cooperative family geneology and record/photo keeping, Geni is the coolest thing around. Funny thing is that I had the idea for almost this same exact site about three months ago, before I found out about Geni. I told George we were going to create this website. When I first started Geni, they didn't have some of the features I'd had in mind, but now they pretty much have it covered and gave some other cool features I've never even thought of! My biggest issues are that it's kind of hard to look at the family tree because of the limitations of the average computer screen, and that they send you notifications when cousins of cousins of cousins of cousins of your step sister-in-law are added to "your family tree." Good news is, preferences can be set so you don't have to receive those notifications.

Anyway, we've been doing a little family photo archiving here. And I put this photo up on Geni for the family to see:

My first Christmas! Here with my sisters, JoAnn and Katrin. I was less than a week old.

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How we're doing right now.

April 6th, 2009
Oh man, moving back home has been quite a transition! For Regin especially. It has taken him three months to return to being fully, or almost fully, potty trained. But we're home and happy to be with friends and in an environment where things are easier.

But of course, not everything is easier. George's first day back to work he learned that the company was exiting the business and he and all the other people that work on that product (including all those people he trained in Penang) were told to look for other jobs.

His last day was March 31st. No time for that cozy little 'sabbatical' though; after he finished his last day of work, his family called and told us they are coming (from Florida) for a visit on the 10th! This would be no big deal (other than being terribly exciting) if we were fully moved back in, but of course, until now, we've had VERY little motivation to fully unpack! So now we're preparing the house at warp speed!

You know, I do miss Penang. Hard to say what I miss exactly, because I know it's more than our friends there, but I feel a certain pang. And all the time we were there, other than missing family, friends, easy living, and snow, I never once actually missed 'Colorado.'

When we got back to Colorado, I expected to have a new and complete love for the place. I do appreciate some things a lot more, especially visual things. I see beauty where I didn't before. But it hasn't been the feeling of home that I expected, and I still have some of the same issues with the place. But what I do love IMMENSELY and will always love IMMENSELY is the people we have here. And it's been absolutely amazing to see how Regin has picked right back up where he left off with his loved ones here. There's no doubt in my mind that he somehow remembers them.