Busy Busy

This week and next week are looking very busy. Tuesday night we had dinner over at Chris and Dan's (the ex-nun, ex-priest founders of Loaves and Fishes). That was a fun night, the JVs were there along with other volunteers our age from Loaves and Fishes. Yesterday, we had Sister Libby and Dorothy over for dinner which was also a fun night. Tomorrow, we have to go speak at some dinner for people who will hopefully donate money to Loaves and Fishes. Saturday, the JVs have their famous Christmas party and then Sunday, we have some concert during the day and then dinner with Sister Bridget. Next week, there's a party at transitional with New Start 1 & 2. We're going to have games, prizes and karaoke! I'm going to make some of Stephanie's sugar cookies and decorate them at New Start for the party. It should be a blast. After all this busy-ness, I'm going home! I don't anticipate a very relaxing vacation while I'm home but I'm very excited to see my family and friends, it's been 5 months!

Mouse!

So that nice little mouse that we caught behind the paper shredder and let free down the street came back. This time, it made a home in the copier machine. I copied a letter for someone and it came out on a half eaten sheet of paper. I opened the drawer to check out the situation and when I took the paper out, I could see the body of what I thought was a dead mouse. Manny happened to call at this point and I told him it was in there but that I wouldn't get it out. He called someone and had them come get it and when they lifted the part it was trapped under, it ran away! I'm finding that mice apparently don't die easily and I'll continue to have near heart attacks when they start moving. I'm just going to have to start assuming they're alive and until proven otherwise.

Fangs

Yesterday, someone came in the office to do an intake and had fake gold teeth, a grill if you will. The front top teeth were all gold which was creepy enough but the two teeth on either end, where normal incisors are, are fangs. They extend much further down than normal teeth should so he looks like a gold toothed vampire...quite creepy.

Softball

This weekend we had another softball game with New Start. It was New Start 1 vs. New Start 2 and I played for 1, who ended up winning (clearly because I was on that team:)) Although it was a little rough in the beginning, everyone eventually relaxed and ended up having a great time. The game was close for most of it so there was some good spirited competition and then afterwards, some people had a cook out (even though it was a little cold). Overall it was a fun day!