Garden- Week One

Jeremy and I started a little potted garden a couple of weeks ago and I've decided to take weekly progress pictures-- while a week may not seem like a lot of time, these plants sure seem like they're ready to take off! Here are the ones from the first week, I'll take the second week's pictures tomorrow when I get home and post them shortly afterwards.

Our sad excuse for an herb garden-- nobody has any herbs!

Lemongrass for curries and chicken soups

Impatiens to add a little color

The leaning tower of cilantro

The whole gamut

These guys are from the same pot as the failed jalapeno from last year-- there are living plants in it! Two out of three remain as of now.

Golden bell peppers-- AWESOME for curries and stir fry!

Red and yellow currants-- I'm going to train them up the posts on the porch

Purple Tomatillos-- for making salsa purpurpla (as opposed to salsa verde)

Cayenne pepper! First flower to bloom!

Poblano pepper-- can't wait to roast some on the grill!

A giant green bell pepper hybrid-- the flower looks like it will be huge, so we'll see if I have to cage it or not

These are all seeded-- mostly with hot peppers, some green beans, cucumbers, basil, that sort of thing. I can't remember which has which, though, so we'll just have to see when they grow in...

Good Monday?

Who knew!

A good friend of mine (I can't say who yet) found out she's pregnant and told us today, and my friends Emily and Daniel FINALLY got engaged, and I found out Jeremy and I got the apartment!!!

It's been a really great day and I hope the rest of the week doesn't bring it down-- we have SO MANY KIDS at camp because we're the only camp that runs up until school starts! We have 80-something kids this week, and we don't have as many counselors because half of them are on beach retreat with Youth along with our vans! We go to Lake Lanier on Wednesday, though it'll be kind of nice that we'll have to have the charter buses because I can just relax on the way out and relax on the way back!

I've also got an ok schedule this week-- even though I don't like 8a, it's not too bad working 8a-1p and then coming back from 4-6p. The break is helpful, I might actually get something done this week!

I have to talk to Jeremy about the apartment tonight-- he's hesitant to sign a lease because he doesn't have a job yet, but I feel like so much went right for us to get this place that it would be silly to let it go. There are also a lot of places around that are hiring; granted, for smaller jobs, but still hiring. I don't know that we'd have any more luck if he were in Southaven and as selfish as it sounds, I spent the last nine months without him and I'm not about to have him move back to Southaven while I'm still here!

Anyway, I'm gonna go pass off the rest of my milkshake to mom, and then look in to more graduate stuff. Sigh.

Ciao.

So much to say so much to say...

SO much has happened since the last time I updated! We had spirit week last week at camp and it was a blast-- MY TEAM WON! GO BLUE DRAGONS-- RAWR! The kids had a lot of fun and I think the counselors all did, too. We did have one really sore winner/loser who would goad people on when Red team won and ended up having a complete meltdown when Richard announced the Blue team won overall! For first place, we got to go see "Up!" at the movies, Chick'fil'a for lunch, and Dairy Queen for dessert! Red team stayed at camp and watched "Bedtime Stories", had Chick'fil'a for lunch, and did ice cream sundaes at camp.

Last weekend was supposed to be my house-hunting weekend, but Jonathan came in and we went to breakfast at Sweet Melissa's (yum!) and went shopping at Lenox with Sarah, and I found my tea ceremony tea at Teavana (macha, the traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony blend, is much different from your average green tea, and is whisked with a bamboo mixer in to boiling water) along with some very pretty tea sets. We went to go look at the house on Deerwood (right near the K's and Sarah) that I was excited about and met a really nice lady, Margaret, who was not only an AOII, but also the woman RENTING THE HOUSE! Thanks, landlord! Oh, well. The place was a little bit small, and I'm finding some much better stuff now, so it happened for a reason! Margaret's going to e-mail me to get involved with Gamma Sigma, which she didn't even know was here!

Sunday, Sarah and I met to look at an apartment in downtown Decatur in a courtyard building built in the 1920's. I am SO in love with it, but it sadly won't fit our needs :( For $1k/mo it's a steal in the area, and it's all vintage and even has the beautiful built in cabinetry! But, there's no covered parking and no storage unit for Jeremy's tools, so sadly I don't think we'll be able to do it. I did go and look at another place called The Conservatory at Druid Hills which is back on N. Druid Hills behind the mall that's $849/mo and has garage units to rent for $75/mo! The place was surprisingly big for a fairly new apartment and was really nice. The complex has a pool, tennis courts, weight rooms, all sorts of fun stuff, and they're guaranteeing the $839/mo for the next year! Yeehaw! There are still a couple more to look at, but right now that one's at the top of the list. It's close to all the highways Jeremy might could need to take to work, and it would take me about 10 minutes to get to work from there. Plus, it's gated and very private-- peace and quiet at last!

Richard had kind of been asking me to take on more responsibility slowly, and yesterday he told me that I'm the new Assistant Director of the camp!! It doesn't mean much pay-wise, but it does mean that I'll have a job in to the fall! Hooray!

That's about all, really. Tomorrow is Six Flags day, but I have little girls so it should be pretty easy :) Will update more as I have more, and I'll put up the pictures of the places I've looked at so far soon enough on Flickr.