Whoops!

I'm so sorry! I got so caught up on updating the Agape Events blog that I've totally neglected this little spit of the internet! Not that things have been slow otherwise-- I've been staffing for summer camp and pushing the registration really hard-- my least favorite phrase at the moment is "Oh, I'm sorry, I just keep forgetting!" Well, guess what? When you show up the first day of camp after forgetting all those weeks, we won't have the staff to take your child! FORETHOUGHT!

We are also already in the throes of 90+ degree weather which, for those of us used to having a spring, is a little bit obnoxious and makes me a little worried about our field trips this summer. It also means we're likely to have a very active summer as far as severe weather goes, so here's to hoping no tornadoes at Six Flags (which I will miss AGAIN this year-- gah!).

My PT is going well, second appointment is tomorrow, and on the first appointment he fixed my foot! It's sore, of course, since all the muscles are getting used to functioning again, but it doesn't feel like there's cement on my foot anymore which is amazing! I think I'm going to ask him to look at my wrist and see if there's a quick fix for that... that way Jeremy can stop feeling bad when he's messing around and grabs the wrong wrist (which usually puts a damper on sneaking up on me and tickling me while I'm in the middle of doing something, just to define "messing around" for y'all).

Anyways, I finally figured out 95% of staffing last night, so that's a huge load off my plate, and I'm hoping that I can wrap up some other pesky things this week. At the end of the month, we plan to go up and visit Marc and Jan since we haven't been in a while and I might actually be able to finagle a four day weekend out of Memorial Day!

More later, off to work for the day!

Congrats Heather!!

Our friend Heather (Rob from running group's girlfriend) finally finished her MBA! We're all pretty excited, especially since this means she can relax a little and start coming out with us! To celebrate, we threw a surprise party at Nandan and Anu's with some really great food, drinks, and company-- an excellent Saturday night, and somehow nobody died from Nandan's crazy concoctions. This time there was black vodka with double habanero and cinnamon infused, and regular habanero and anise infused plain vodka. I stayed clear of BOTH! Sadly my camera died just before the sake bombs (and about an hour before we left), but here are a few pictures we managed to get!

 Ikebana-style celebration!

 Rob is pretty fascinated by Charlie Sheen-- clearly!

 Heather was totally surprised!

 Anu, Tracy, Heather and I wait for Nandan to finish making the sake bombs

 Nandan attempted this in paper cups first; we're not sure why!

Me and Heather

Poor Weather, to say the least

As I'm sure you all know, the Southland took a beating this week from Mother Nature... thankfully, Atlanta was spared the worst, but we still got some insane rainstorms. My uncle and some of our extended family live in the Muscle Shoals/Florence area in Northern Alabama where three tornadoes touched down. Florence is 25sq mi, so that's 1 tornado for every 8.3sq mi in the city. I was grateful to hear from my Aunt Linda that Uncle Joe (who lives in my grandfather's house) made it out safely with only a few downed limbs. My college friend and sister Erin's family is from that area as well and reported some fairly major damage to the city that mostly culminated in loss of property, not life. Cullman is the closest video that's worth much...



I can't find the one that shows the twin tails of the funnel, but this one shows you the magnitude of the cloud feeding it.

NPR just put out a sliding scale similar to the pre-post-tsunami one the NY Times did showing Tuscaloosa from satellite photos before and after the tornado.

Northwest GA in particular suffered; they've never seen anything like this, and cleanup there and everywhere will take a lot of time and effort.

If you have anything to spare, the Red Cross mostly needs money to support the victims of 164 (confirmed) tornadoes the day of April 27-- please go to their website and donate what you can. Chances are good you know someone affected by the storms.

Best for last?

For those of you who remember last summer's great ankle debacle caused by the total inability of an individual to clean a puddle of water, it's come back to haunt me!!

The last few months my ankle has been bothering me more and more, which led me to favor it-- had I thought about it, I would have fixed it but... that's not how things work! Instead, I went to step over a sweater nearly two weeks ago and my knee suddenly felt like there was a screwdriver under the kneecap!

I got in to the orthopedist surprisingly fast, and he set me up with six weeks of physical therapy. He confirmed my suspicion (and Iggy's) that it was due to my ankle never healing properly. I'm hoping to get reimbursement for at least part of it from worker's comp since the case was never closed by a doctor and DeKalb Medical never followed up on that.

Anyways, prayers, positive thoughts, good mojo, all that jazz is totally appreciated! I would really rather not have surgery on my ankle!

Divide and Conquer!

FBC Decatur had their Spring Fling yesterday so we took the kids up to have a little fun! With both of them there, we decided to divide and conquer-- Michael and his mom went with Julian and we went with Violet-- she was exhausted, but still managed to have a little fun!

Yelp!

One of the best things about being in Atlanta, and being involved in the community, is free events sponsored by Yelp. We've been needing something interesting to go to for a while, but haven't had the money for anything we want-- then Yelp came along with the Passione Italiano exhibit at the Museum Of Design Atlanta! It was perfect and Jeremy, needless to say, was thrilled. The exhibit was small, but it's part of the collection of Barber Vintage Motorsports which is just outside Birmingham so we'll stop by to see the rest soon! It was also great because I didn't even know the MODA existed! Now I have another fun place to add to our list.

All State Recruitment!

I'm so excited to be helping the girls out with recruitment this year! Our first event was the All-State Recruitment workshop!! In addition to our chapter, girls from Columbus State, UGA, UC Aiken, and Kennesaw State came out. What a wonderful day!