Prochein Amy

It is hard to believe that I have not posted here in July, but if I think about what I have been up to, then maybe not.

This year I am the President of the Parent Teacher Group at the girls school. It has been fun, but a lot of work. My ultimate goal is to document everything that we do, so it does not feel like we are starting over. I want to set a foundation for the next officer to hit the ground running.

Speaking of running – if you live in the Fort Worth area – register for our Aslan Run/Walk on October 24th. With the funds we make we are going to buy picnic tables for the play ground area.

When we asked the Pastor (the school is based out of a church) what he thought about the picnic table idea, he said they were planning on doing it, but ran out of money. Very cool that we can fill in the gaps!

I was on the fence about these, but they do have Texas!

On our trip to Abilene, my husband brought up a fun way to have an adventure he had heard about from some friends. We decided to try it out – maybe since we were in a town we don’t live in. Have you heard of Geocaching?

Geocaching is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking treasure. A geocacher can place a geocache in the world, pinpoint its location using GPS technology and then share the geocache’s existence and location online. Anyone with a GPS unit can then try to locate the geocache.

But what is a cache? There are many kinds that you can learn more on their website, but mostly we found small containers, like a prescription bottle, with a small paper log in it. You have to BYOP(en) and you write down the date and your name. Then you can go online and log your find. Our finds took us to places in Abilene we would not have visited on our own.

This is a great way to add adventure to your trips or (once you have purchased a GPS) a cheap way for entertainment. Many car navigators have a “walking” feature.

Are you already geocaching? Send me an email so I can “friend” you and see your adventures.

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Hat tip to GruntDoc!

Hello All!  I have neglected this blog long enough.  And I think I am suffering because it it.  Blogging is a type therapy for me.

Here are my extra curricular activities of late:

PTF President – I was elected this year for our school’s version of PTA.  As a uber-organizer, we have already started our planning and will meet with the Principal this week.

Tea Party Volunteer – My role was quite a bit more for the initial Tea Party Event on April 15th, but due to a  major work project, I have had to pull back.  So now I am helping maintain the website and doing video work.  If anyone has not heared of the Tea Party Movement, it is a grass roots effort started to let our elected officials know we are unhappy with their spending habits of our money and our children’s money.  It has expanded beyond that to our condern of not following the Constitution and the expanding goverenment.   The group I am involved with is non-partisian and very grass roots.  (More blogging on my involvement and going ons in the future.)

Next week I am a VBS volunteer at my parent’s church.  My Dad and I will be “herding”  our group of kids to each activity.  It should be a growing experience for me!

My goal is to blog at least once a week, so please come back!

I am on the edge and need a break without one in sight.  Maybe if I blogging will help put it into perspective for me.

A major project at work is requiring me to travel this week and next.  Not a big deal except that means I have to pack into the weekend what I do on weeknights.  Then the actual trip is going from 5:30am until 10:45pm first day, today 5:30am until 9:14pm.  Down times for a few minutes, but not real quality time.  I have had a headache all day that pain relief is not helping and a few things happended to prepare for tomorrow that pushed me over the edge.  And we still had dinner.  I should have just ordered room service and chilled out. 

Next week might be better, but I am also working in some projects that need to be done for the girl’s school and Parent Teacher Foundation that are hard deadlines. 

Last week my left side went numb, face, shoulder, arm and leg.  Doctor sent me for a CAT scan with no problems, so I am figuring it is probably stress.   With this project I have until the end of May to eliminate that factor, so who knows.

If you are reading this send good karma my way with a sprinkle of restful thoughts.

Facebook has an application where you can vote on who is the nicest person. I updated my status with my thoughts on this contest.

Amy is too nice to enter the nicest person contest. I would hate to make the others feel bad when I win. That is not very nice.

Hubby also had a comment:

Mark isn’t nice enough to enter the nicest person contest to prevent someone else from coming in last. That is too nice.

I have been aware of media bias and political spin, but never have seen if first hand. Until now. If you keep up with me on Twitter and Facebook, you will know I have become politically active in the Tea Party movement. What an eye opener it has been. Until the smoke clears, I can’t say much or dare not until my anger cools.