Row, row, row your boat

I've been completely caught up in something again. Something I haven't done since I was 18.That's me on the far right with my crew team in college. I rowed through the fall, but dropped in the spring when it came down to passing classes and rowing. Passing classes won out. I've talked about joining the Atlanta Rowing Club since I graduated from college. But it's always been expensive or something or another. No good reason. Work shifts gave me an excuse to not do a lot of things I love. This summer I finally signed up for the "Learn to Row" class, because although I knew what I was doing I was out of practice and I didn't know how to scull (two oars) which I wanted to learn. I got wait-listed until April, but I made plans to run a half marathon...

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A birthday for them all

I blame Meag for not posting much. In her haste to move even farther away from me (is it farther? we should figure that out) she's not been online in days and I'm suffering from withdrawl. Plus she's not posting to remind me to post.My birthday was Sunday (the 22nd) and what a lovely birthday it was!! I had friends over Saturday night to celebrate, which is always fun. It's fun to see friends from work interact with other friends as well. Sometimes I worry that people from two different parts of my life won't get along, but it did seem to go smoothly.As for gifts, Gina got me Twilight SceneIt. I deserved it since she got New Moon the trivia board game for her birthday in June. My parents bought me a new IPod Nano that I desperately needed as...

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August C2P

I was terribly un-mojo'd this month, which is always hard when working with a kit. But I did manage to crank out a few layouts with this month's Commit2Paper kit. The bright colors reminded me of summer and thus summer camp so I scrapped some photos from camp 2008 I love these girls. They've become like family to me over the past five years, the sisters I never had. so fantastic....

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"You can be my punk rock princess..."

I know. I keep posting these photos of things you probably don't care about but I have to share this. I'm a big music person. More than that I'm a big concert person. I don't go to nearly enough concerts (in my opinion) and I'm always re-discovering music I love through seeing it live. While chatting with Dave about music, I was trying to explain the Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin correlation (how they have the same lead singer) and on the wikipedia page i noticed that SOMETHING CORPORATE IS DOING A REUNION TOUR. And they were coming here. "Self," I told myself, "You are so there." So Champ and I got tickets (stub hub for the win) and off we went. If you've never been to the Masquerade in Atlanta, I recommend making a pilgrimage....

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All good things come to an end

There is nothing like the Kudzu after party. There never is. We always end up going to a public place (ie bar) and drink and sing and hang out and wind up singing camp song late into the night completely with hand motions and arms around each other swaying. This year was no different. Scott, Dave and Shawn played while we cheered. The first set was mostly covers, the second set was camp music + camp cov...

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Love'll Never Die

Sorry for the delay in posts, but I spent last week as a counselor at summer camp!! I volunteer at Camp Kudzu and have for five years now. It's a summer camp for kids with Type 1 diabetes, and we've got kids from ages 8-16 who come spend a great week in the sun with us. My girls this year were 15 and of course full of energy. A great week, great fun and wonderful love all around. We're all family, no matter what. So here's some shots from camp!always leave room for rocking out, especially with new friendsspend the morning on the water, enjoying the sun and trying something new (my campers + co-counselor)Don't be afraid to take a leap of faith...even when it sends you flying over the lake!rain, shine or really loud large thunderstorm we're all...

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Scrap Your Crap!

I'm one of the guest designers over at Scrap You Crap this month!Make sure you check it out and use up some of that tape!! &l...

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