Birthday Celebrations!

Our friend Rob got tickets to Gaelic Storm at the Variety Playhouse-- it was AMAZING! 

Definitely a great way to start my birthday!

Storm clouds on the horizon...

We have a lot of friends and family going through some tough times at the moment, and I just wanted to send my thoughts out to them and ask for you to do the same if you have a few minutes!

- Jeremy had to have a basal cell carcinoma cut off his ear today; it's the spot that was burned by the pitot tube a few years ago at the airline, so we expect that it will be an isolated case. Thankfully I'm used to the basal cell removal process due to my mother having so many done, it hasn't worried us too badly.

- My sister in law Sarah isn't feeling very well and is nearing the end of her student teaching to get her degree; I hope so very much for her that she can finish, she's worked very hard towards this.

- Emily lost her job on Tuesday for no particular reason and is now on the hunt again! She's also applying to law school and trying to use this opportunity to do a full time program and get a fresh start.

- A dear friend of ours, I'll keep his name for privacy's sake, is going through a terrible issue with his son's school after his son was molested by another child. The school and DFCS are cooperating, but not offering any information they don't have to. Hopefully, everything will wrap up and their lives can go back to normal. Thankfully his son is young, so he doesn't completely understand what's going on, so a little therapy will go a long way.

- My sister in law Valerie and her husband just found out that one of the children they were trying to adopt from Ethiopia is no longer available due to his orphanage shutting down. They are in the midst of switching agencies again and continuing to try for the second boy they want to adopt.

- Jeremy's brother James is returning home yet again from another stint in supportive care. We hope that things will go smoothly for Marc and Jan in this transition.

- I'm getting the feeling that things may start getting bumpy at work... keeping my fingers crossed!

In good news, it does seem like Marc's (my father in law) surgery has done him some good and putting him on a late-but-great path to better health!

I leave you with one of my favorite Glee covers to date-- "Somebody to Love" (originally by Queen)

Aaaaaahcrazy

This week was NUTS at work! More kids, more noise, more drama-- but all told, it went sooo smoothly.

My car did decide to punk out, but Jeremy says he's almost positive it's just the fuel filter (which my mother never ever changed, so it's the original fuel filter with 123k miles on it!) so hopefully that'll be all. Best thing? He can change it for me. Since he gets here TOMORROW! Well, I guess that's really TODAY!

My new addiction is Marc Broussard's "Home". It's actually an old addiction, he played Rhodes my sophomore year and I fell so in love with him-- I still have a picture I took with him after he autographed my shirt (since I didn't have anything else he could autograph) and my arm (just for humor value) at Rites. He's got the most amazing voice and energy-- SO GOOD. Though he's way sexier in jeans and a t-shirt than this suit they've got him in for the video I found of it...





If you want to hear the song like it ought to be heard, check it out on YouTube (since I'm not sure how to post them on the blog) because I don't think that NBA performance shows off the music as well as it should.

Anyway, I've listened to that song about a hundred times this week, I am so addicted to his music! I'm hoping to be able to see him in October when he comes to town-- tickets are $30 but it's TOTALLY worth it. Also, Florez is coming to town in September and their tickets are only $8, so maybe I can just tell myself I paid $20 each for the tickets ;)

I'm also kind of addicted to Jump by Flo Rida and Nelly Furtado-- they didn't have the song on YouTube, but you can press play and listen to the song. It was the best I could do-- the rest of them were related to G-Fail since it was one of three songs they licensed, but we all know how I feel about G-Fail...



Anyway, I'm gonna go clear out some more stuff so that when Jeremy gets here tomorrow there's somewhere for all of his things to go!