Thinking of blogging again

I might be back. I'm not sure if I'm coming back to this site, or if I'm going to create a new blog to talk about things I'm up to. Stay tuned.

14th Street Bridge

I got this e-mail today:

14th Street Bridge Closing Tuesday, May 27 On May 27, 2008 at 12:01 a.m., the 14th Street Bridge will close to vehicles and pedestrians. According to the current schedule, the bridge will not reopen until summer 2010. Motorists will be detoured to the 17th Street Bridge during this time.

With this closure, traffic congestion throughout Midtown is expected to increase, so plan your commute and daytime trips now.

For information on the 14th Street Bridge Improvement Project including weekly lane closure updates, detour routes and commuter resources, please visit www.14thStreetBridge.com

1:49.04

OK, I'm bragging, but it's a PR for me. Half Marathon at a 8:19 pace. 1051 place overall.

The course...13 miles of great Atlanta neighborhoods
Fellow runners...awesome
The cookies at the finish...delicious
The Marta ride home...stinky
The overwhelming need to invest with ING...staggering.

Ellie Mae wore my orange medal all day with pride. She is so freakin' cute.

I should have a better picture for this post but I'm tired. Just imagine me running fast eating cookies and making Ellie look like a champion.

Get Ready

4 weeks and counting.
Destination: Florida.
Goal: Get Hitched. Try not to molest an alligator.
Current Emotional Status: Totally psyched!

Scooter-licious

Yes, we got a scooter. I took it to work this morning in the 40 degrees...then had a massive winter coat on the way home when it was 70 degrees. Atlanta is crazy that way. Anyways, the scooter is awesome. It can get just over 40mph, but I just take it on side roads to work so I really only go like 30mph to and from work.

So the next time you are driving and you see a scooter, think of ree and take caution. And if you are itching to scoot, I can help with some knowledge after researching this purchase. OH!!! And I DON'T scoot in a short dress. I was being lazy this afternoon that we took pictures.

New Job

I have started my new position as Event Coordinator for the College of Management at Georgia Tech. I'm in the undergraduate suite at Tech Square and am LOVIN' IT! It's so exciting to be back in midtown, I love the people I work with, and am really looking forward to getting in the grove of things and getting more settled. So e-mail me for lunch!

Next item on the list. New last name :)

More Project Runway

Go this THIS link and watch the SNL skit at the bottom of the site. HILARIOUS!

Project Runway

There was most definitely some sort of love affair between Rami and Chris these past two weeks. Those 2 remind me of some childhood TV favorites. Do you see the resemblance?

Big final episode is next week! I think I'm rooting for Rami. We only got a brief viewing of all 3 collections, but I do think Rami's was very intriguing.

Jellyfish Story

OK, I'm not a fan of fowards. However, this one came to me and 1) I need material for my blog and 2) I have been stung by a number of jelly fish. Once I dove off a rock...did a stroke under water...and my whole face and shoulders went through a number of tentacles whose jellyfish owners were floating on the surface. It felt like I was swimming through a spiderweb and I totally knew what hit me but there was nothing I could do about it at that point. Here is a much worse story:

"Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've beenfeeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all.

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I firstmust bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea and I peform underwater repairs on off-shore drilling rigs. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit.

This time of year the water is quite cold. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out ofthe sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.

Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is to take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.

Everything was going well until all of a sudden, mybutt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my butt started to burn.

I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony, I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't st ick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate.When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt.

I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, a long with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.

Needless to say I aborted the dive.I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the s urface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.

So, the next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt. Now repeat after me, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job."

And, whenever you're having a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?"

Good one huh?