For those who don't know, my sister gave birth to Joey on Tuesday the 13th. It was hard being away from my family for the birth. I will fortunately be heading home this upcoming weekend (Friday-Tuesday) to visit the family and meet the baby! :) I can't wait!! I've missed everyone so much.
Jordan turned 21 that week, so a group of us went to Austin to party on 6th street - what a crazy trip! We had a great time and experienced some odd things...as they say, "Keep Austin Weird."
HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY, JORDAN!!
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CHEERS
Randomly got our faces painted
This past week, we had the camp HD2 for teens with hand differences. This camp was different from ANY other camp we've had this summer. It is our only camp just for teens, so it was a nice change of pace. Most of the campers at HD2 have come for 3+ years and talk about how much their fellow campers are like family. The nice thing about these teens is that they truly understand the importance of PK.
We did a lot of different things with these campers. We had mud pit tug-of-war (which turned into mud wrestling), a night time live scavenger hunt (I hid in a tree), pranked the campers (I dressed up as a zombie with other staff and hid in the girl's cabin bathroom in the stall - traumatized a few of the campers!), and a white trash dinner rather than our normal etiquette dinner. The week was an absolute BLAST!
ONLY 3 WEEKS LEFT OF CAMP!! :( WHAT!?! Yeah, this makes me very sad...I can't believe how fast this summer has gone by!
P.S. Thank you so much Kathleen for writing me a letter at camp! You're so sweet :)
CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MY FAMILY THIS COMING WEEKEND AND MY GIRLS IN MINNESOTA AT THE END OF AUGUST!! Miss you all...
Hi Em,
ReplyDeleteI was just catching up on your blog. I finally got disgusted with slow internet and upgraded to dsl so I can be more interactive. Sounds like you are having just an awesome summer! I am so happy for you. You are really living a lifetime in a few weeks with all you are being exposed to. A real life changing experience. Bet you will be sad to see it end.
Life here is as usual. Hassles in the lab as usual. Finally got it settled that the grinding crew does our samples routinely. Had a big confrontation with Lisa about samples - she wants ours stored in general storage, and told me the reason our samples weren't ground was because I pulled them out of lineup! I was getting really irritated as she would not listen to anything I had to say and kept interrupting. Jen said we were almost yelling. I finally told her I would leave samples in general storage once writeup had a system working. Everyone was complaining about not being able to find samples because the Thornton people aren't using the check out system. So our samples are still in our fridge til we are done with them! Lisa has been on a real power trip. We will have a lot to catch up on when you stop in.
This week is the official ribbon cutting for the new lab. CEO from Europe, governor clients etc. Staff is NOT invited to participate - we are supposed to be hard at work for the tours. AND we can't even park in the lot because they are setting up tents there. Guess they are having another open house for staff families at a later time. Whoopee! I miss our old room. Too much running around in the new place. Only good thing is the AC works.
Enough griping. Hope you have a great trip home.
Pat