my birthday in pictures
my biggest fan
February 27, 2008 in General, Kiwanismy biggest fan died last sunday. earl was dating one of the women in our kiwanis club, and she always called me earl’s “other girlfriend”. he listened to me on the radio religiously, and according to jimmie, loved my northern accent. i met him...
weekend wedding
February 25, 2008 in Friends, Kiwanis, Lifethe wedding we attended on saturday was very nice. the bride had her husband-to-be’s twin daughters as their only attendants, which i thought was nice. the girls were really cute, and when shawn and aimee lit the unity candle, they had the girls hold...
chili cookoff
January 22, 2008 in Food, Kiwanis, Lifesince yesterday was a holiday and schools were not in session, i was able to go to my kiwanis club meeting. yay for postponed board of education meetings. it was potluck night (double yay for mlk day falling on the third monday), so we...
christmas for the kids
December 19, 2007 in Kiwanis, Lifetonight is the christmas party our kiwanis club is hosting for the local children’s shelter. there are 25-30 people in our club. there will be three people at tonight’s event. that’s including me and joe, in case you were wondering. it blows my mind...
christmas parties
December 5, 2007 in Holidays, Kiwanis, Lifetonight is our kiwanis club christmas party, the first of our holiday parties. we have it at the country club, and it’s always a lot of fun. it’s nice to hang out for a couple of hours outside of the meeting setting. there are...
i’m the new first lady!
September 25, 2007 in General, Kiwanis, Lifelast night, joe was installed as president of our kiwanis club. that makes me the first lady. 🙂 the meeting was great. my parents and joe’s dad came, and i was given an award for my work on the recent kiddie day parade. i...
dumb people
September 14, 2007 in General, Grrr, Kiwanis, Lifei have seriously had it with ignorant people. i have been receiving calls saying that the parade route published in the newspaper was incorrect. i checked the story, though, and it was correct. today, someone who called told me the bartow trader (a free...
promote, promote, promote
September 12, 2007 in General, Kiwanis, Lifei’m in the paper again! i have been trying to promote the hell out of this parade i’m planning. we’ve been in both local newspapers, i have psa’s running on the station, and we’re on bartow headlines. that’s in addition to the flyers we...
the other side of journalism
September 11, 2007 in General, Kiwanis, Lifefor the first time in my life, i’m on the other side of journalism. i’ve been interviewed twice for the kiddie day parade i’m organizing, and each interview made me laugh. i wonder if the two reporters had any idea they were interviewing a...
