Originally published on August 16, 2006 at Onward & Upward A few months ago, I volunteered to be head of a volunteer committee at work. My bosses put a great emphasis on giving back to the community, so they have an annual community service project we participate in as a company. This year, I did some research and discovered a place called Cafe 458 in downtown Atlanta – a cafe-style restaurant that serves free meals to the homeless with the…
So these really should have been alongside my post about the honeymoon, but alas! It took me a while to upload them all to my computer. Part of the problem is that my card reader has decided to be ornery and now insists on being held in the USB port – you can’t just plug it in and let it be anymore. So I have to get one person to hold the card reader, and the other person quickly transfers…
These past few days have been very busy! And you know what busy can mean… more topics to blog about! I will start with a bit of an eclectic post; hopefully the future ones will be a bit more interesting. :-) Today I started on my new schedule. This routine change requires me to wake up at the same time as my dear husband, which as many of you know is 5am (well, technically 5:15, but still very very early)….
Joanna beat me to it about posting this, but I’m going to write about it anyways. :-) A little history: Last April, there was a tragic van/semi accident involving Taylor students and staff, in which 4 students and one staff member were killed. One of the students survived, and was in a coma for about 5 weeks. We all remember what happened there – with the tragic mix-up of identities. So recently, Whitney (the Taylor student who survived the accident)…
During the summer after kindergarten, I was involved in a reading contest at my local library. The person who read the most books won a prize and got their name in the local paper (it was a small town). Being the avid bookworm that I was, I set about to see how many books I could read. I’m not sure what the duration of the contest was, but I read a total of 262 books. The 2nd place person in…