Oh, hello there. Allow my self to introduce...myself. I'm Dave. I am currently residing in South Jersey, in a place called Lindenwold. I was born and raised here, and went to Lindenwold No. 5 school as a wee little lad. Moved on to Overbrook Jr. High, then onto Camden County Vocational School in Sicklerville, NJ for HS. Funny thing is, I love to draw. I always have. Most recently (its been several years since I've drawn anything) has been comic book art. So, my parents decided I should go to a vocational school to enhance this skill of drawing. Turns out, the only course that was offered for drawling was Drafting and AutoCad. Now, I had no intention of becoming an engineer. I really don't give a damn about architechural drawling for electrical or plumbing. More power to the people who do. So, I stuck through the class, just to get out of HS. But, as much as I didn't like that class, I did meet my best friend there (read a little further down about him).I graduated HS in '97, started working for DirecTv's sister company at the time, U.S.S.B. Worked there for 2 years and got laid off. I remained unemployed for several months, and started working part time at a Mobil station, pumping gas. I figured I'd stay there for a few months for the income, and get a better job. This turned into a 3 year run, where I ended up meeting my 2nd best friend, (also, read on a little further), and ended up becoming the assistant manager of 2 stations. I then met my (now)wife while still employed by ExxonMobil, in the summer of 2001, and a few short weeks later, Planet Earth watched the horror that was 9/11. Which, by the way, Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania farmland about 50 or 60 miles from where my wife went to college at. I then got a job working in another call center, where I am still currently employed. The company I work for is called Allianz, which deals with the sales and servicing of fixed and variable annuity contracts, as well as life insurance. After dating a while, i proposed to her in January of 2003, (which I did the honorable thing of asking her parents permission first) and we then moved in together in June of 2003. i uprooted myself from South Jersey and moved up to the Pocono's, all the while still working for my current employer. (I went from a 380 mile weekly commute to a 950 mile weekly commute, then back to a 380 mile weekly commute).We then got married on...um...oh, crap, what day was that!? (Just kidding baby!). We got married on February 12th, 2005 at St. Johns Lutheran Church in Effort, PA. My brother was my best man and my wife's sister was her maid-of-honor. For a February afternoon in the Pocono's, it turned out to be a really nice day. We did have a little bit of snow flurries, which was really nice. After 2 years of living in PA, we moved back to NJ (moved in with my mom for a while to save money) to put some money aside to pay off some bills and to save for a down payment on a house. Still currently working on that. I have two very best friends; Dan, who I went to HS with, and have been friends with since we were 14, and Anthony, who was my boss at Mobil, and now my other best friend for about 7 years now. I was the best man in both of their weddings. There's a story behind Dan's wedding. I'll add that to a blog.*My family is awesome. My parents aren't together any longer, divorced 3 years now. They were married for 26 years before it was finally settled. I have 4 siblings, a brother and 3 sisters. I have 5 cats (Dale, Charlie, Chipmunk, Alley, and Ashlee) and 5 birds (Bonnie, Clyde, Betsy, Heckle and Jeckle)If you see me online between 8am and 7pm M-F, I'm at work. Any other time, I'm home.If you wanna chat, or say hi, or just tell me to F off, shoot me a message on here, or dcoonelly@yahoo.com.Last thing I want to add is my brother in law, Derek, is leaving on August 2nd, to go in the Army. I wish him all the best, lots of luck, and that we're all proud of him.He left from Stroudsburg, PA on 8/1/06 to go to Harrisburg, PA. He left this morning (8/2/06) to head down to Ft. Benning, GA for basic training. He'll graduate from Basic sometime in early of mid-November, where my wife and I, and my mother and father in law are driving down to see him.
