Wednesday, September 30, 2009
One month from today...
I WILL BE HOME!
Patty arrived about 2 weeks ago (I'm not sure if I mentioned that before)... but she's everything I imagined her to be when we made up her personality at the program... very dry-witted and funny. AND she HAPPENS to be a Frank Sinatra fan, second in a family of four girls, and having gone to a Legionary school her entire life. Sound familiar?
Last week my team traveled to Dallas for a get-together weekend with the Dallas team... SO MUCH FUN. I love them.
Then we lead retreats for Rolling Hills Academy girls in San Antonio (about 6hrs from Dallas)
Since then, Lindsey's family came (also from ATL) and took her out for her 25th birthday. Angie, Paulina, Patty, and I partied (apostolically) by ourselves that weekend. Lindsey's parents bought us gardening stuff, so I'm really sore from digging in our back yard to plant our cactus-like flowers yesterday. But I really do like gardening- I didn't even notice it was hard until I woke up this morning.
We've just been working on pretty small things. The retreats in San Antonio took up a lot of time, so now we're just getting back into the Houston events: visiting Challenge meetings, finding dates for Young Women triduums, getting encounters started, coming up with a new campaign for Northwoods K4J... things like that.
COWORKER NORMS ALSO CHANGED! I can call home ONCE a week and email twice a week! Very exciting, though it sounds pathetic :D
1 month!
Love,
Sarah
Patty arrived about 2 weeks ago (I'm not sure if I mentioned that before)... but she's everything I imagined her to be when we made up her personality at the program... very dry-witted and funny. AND she HAPPENS to be a Frank Sinatra fan, second in a family of four girls, and having gone to a Legionary school her entire life. Sound familiar?
Last week my team traveled to Dallas for a get-together weekend with the Dallas team... SO MUCH FUN. I love them.
Then we lead retreats for Rolling Hills Academy girls in San Antonio (about 6hrs from Dallas)
Since then, Lindsey's family came (also from ATL) and took her out for her 25th birthday. Angie, Paulina, Patty, and I partied (apostolically) by ourselves that weekend. Lindsey's parents bought us gardening stuff, so I'm really sore from digging in our back yard to plant our cactus-like flowers yesterday. But I really do like gardening- I didn't even notice it was hard until I woke up this morning.
We've just been working on pretty small things. The retreats in San Antonio took up a lot of time, so now we're just getting back into the Houston events: visiting Challenge meetings, finding dates for Young Women triduums, getting encounters started, coming up with a new campaign for Northwoods K4J... things like that.
COWORKER NORMS ALSO CHANGED! I can call home ONCE a week and email twice a week! Very exciting, though it sounds pathetic :D
1 month!
Love,
Sarah
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The fastest post I will ever make.
I have to go to Walmart again, so here's my life in 30 seconds or less.
Been working on the San Antonio retreat like a maniac during crazy car rides across Houston in between everything else we have to do.
Patty comes Thursday.
Leaving for Dallas on Friday for GET TOGETHER WEEKEND WITH MY FAVORITE DALLAS TEAM!! I LOVE them.
Then, off to San Antonio from Dallas for the Rolling Hills School Retreats (2 of them, back to back)
Houston is still hot and apparently will be for a good 3 more months.
I'm finally getting to know the girls at Northwoods, which is GREAT. Now I can actually work with them.
Father (once Brother) Thomas Salazar is our chaplain. Small world.
Father Emilio came yesterday and amazed me with his memory... he asked about our whole family and a bunch of people at Pinecrest after Mass. I got confession with him too, which as anyone who's ever met Fr. Emilio would know, is the BEST.
Now I need to go buy ingredients for Mama Betty's Easy Bean Soup, which I'm making for dinner!
I love you all, family!
See you in 6 weeks!
Love,
Sarah
Been working on the San Antonio retreat like a maniac during crazy car rides across Houston in between everything else we have to do.
Patty comes Thursday.
Leaving for Dallas on Friday for GET TOGETHER WEEKEND WITH MY FAVORITE DALLAS TEAM!! I LOVE them.
Then, off to San Antonio from Dallas for the Rolling Hills School Retreats (2 of them, back to back)
Houston is still hot and apparently will be for a good 3 more months.
I'm finally getting to know the girls at Northwoods, which is GREAT. Now I can actually work with them.
Father (once Brother) Thomas Salazar is our chaplain. Small world.
Father Emilio came yesterday and amazed me with his memory... he asked about our whole family and a bunch of people at Pinecrest after Mass. I got confession with him too, which as anyone who's ever met Fr. Emilio would know, is the BEST.
Now I need to go buy ingredients for Mama Betty's Easy Bean Soup, which I'm making for dinner!
I love you all, family!
See you in 6 weeks!
Love,
Sarah
Saturday, September 12, 2009
My mistake...
I've been out of school too long. Two posts ago, I said I'm in the upper lefthand corner. Wouldn't that be nice as that's where at least 2 Challenge clubs are?
No, I'm in the upper right. Just so you know.
Love,
Sarah
No, I'm in the upper right. Just so you know.
Love,
Sarah
"Cute Frumpfest, Fool"
Thus began a wonderful postcard by my eldest sister, sporting two "swanky" swiss guards... I must say, mail time is my favorite time of the day. (**Insert Blues Clues anthem**)
Please excuse any lack of sense the following paragraphs will make. I just finished my FOURTH three-hour Virtus Training Session since May. (I am now accreditted to work in Atlanta, Detroit, Dallas, and Houston.)
This week was pretty normal... Angie and Lindsey were gone last weekend for a retreat in Dallas, so Paulina and I got to blast music throughout the house and dance around in wild abandon... while also doing apostolate, going to the school and challenge meetings, and making sure all the housework got done. However, out of respect for the consecrated's vocations, when they're in the house, we can't play music. So Tuesday was the day the music died.
For the rest of the week we have been fixing everything and anything that breaks or dies in the house... for example: the fire alarm, the printer, the breaks on the blue van, the battery on the coworker car, the oil in the consecrated car, the power adaptor for the coworker computer, and the internet adaptor for the consecrated computer. Let's not forget the dishwasher that doesn't close and the car remote that doesn't unlock or lock the car. Most of our "apostolate" time has been taken up by driving the various parts and pieces of our house that are not working to their respective fixers. Then, at night, we generally drive anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 hours away for Challenge meetings upon Challenge meetings upon Challenge meetings. Sometimes we go to lunch at Northwoods Catholic School (Legionary school in the area) to eat lunch with the girls, but most of the time we're in the car on the way to a repair shop with our laptops and files, trying to plan team leader trainings, retreats, and triduums in a mobile setting.
Next Thursday the famed Patty, the Venezuelan, arrives to Houston. We should probably stop referring to her as "Patty, the Venezuelan" if we don't want to be known as "Paulina, the Mexican" and "Sarah, the American"... but no matter what we call her, she gets here on Thursday. As soon as we pick her up, we're driving four hours BACK to Dallas (please do recall I just left there two weeks ago) for our GET TOGETHER WEEKEND!! This means that for the first time since the summer program, we will get to watch a movie. I am SO excited. Plus, we get to see the Dallas team which, regardless of our short time together, I grew incredibly fond of. So movie + Dallas team = one super weekend.
Until then, I have the first Pure Fashion Event of the season tomorrow. Don't ask me how I got involved in Pure Fashion... I really don't know why they put me there. Then we have meetings and planning for the rest of the week.
My To Do List: (Just so you have a sample of what I'm doing)
Please excuse any lack of sense the following paragraphs will make. I just finished my FOURTH three-hour Virtus Training Session since May. (I am now accreditted to work in Atlanta, Detroit, Dallas, and Houston.)
This week was pretty normal... Angie and Lindsey were gone last weekend for a retreat in Dallas, so Paulina and I got to blast music throughout the house and dance around in wild abandon... while also doing apostolate, going to the school and challenge meetings, and making sure all the housework got done. However, out of respect for the consecrated's vocations, when they're in the house, we can't play music. So Tuesday was the day the music died.
For the rest of the week we have been fixing everything and anything that breaks or dies in the house... for example: the fire alarm, the printer, the breaks on the blue van, the battery on the coworker car, the oil in the consecrated car, the power adaptor for the coworker computer, and the internet adaptor for the consecrated computer. Let's not forget the dishwasher that doesn't close and the car remote that doesn't unlock or lock the car. Most of our "apostolate" time has been taken up by driving the various parts and pieces of our house that are not working to their respective fixers. Then, at night, we generally drive anywhere from 30 seconds to 2 hours away for Challenge meetings upon Challenge meetings upon Challenge meetings. Sometimes we go to lunch at Northwoods Catholic School (Legionary school in the area) to eat lunch with the girls, but most of the time we're in the car on the way to a repair shop with our laptops and files, trying to plan team leader trainings, retreats, and triduums in a mobile setting.
Next Thursday the famed Patty, the Venezuelan, arrives to Houston. We should probably stop referring to her as "Patty, the Venezuelan" if we don't want to be known as "Paulina, the Mexican" and "Sarah, the American"... but no matter what we call her, she gets here on Thursday. As soon as we pick her up, we're driving four hours BACK to Dallas (please do recall I just left there two weeks ago) for our GET TOGETHER WEEKEND!! This means that for the first time since the summer program, we will get to watch a movie. I am SO excited. Plus, we get to see the Dallas team which, regardless of our short time together, I grew incredibly fond of. So movie + Dallas team = one super weekend.
Until then, I have the first Pure Fashion Event of the season tomorrow. Don't ask me how I got involved in Pure Fashion... I really don't know why they put me there. Then we have meetings and planning for the rest of the week.
My To Do List: (Just so you have a sample of what I'm doing)
- Call Catherine Sepe about her Challenge Team at Pope John XXIII and see if she needs anything for next week
- Call every team leader in the entire section inviting them to the Team Leader Training coming up AND encouraging them to invite their girls to the 1st-4th stage retreat
- Plan 2 retreats for Rolling Hills, the Legionary school in San Antonio, for 2 weekends from now.
- Plan the 1st-4th stage retreat that I'm advertising
- Call Our Lady of Perpetual Help Retreat Center and converse with the Vietnamese priest about reserving the facilities for a Young Women's Triduum in November.
- Plan activities for the girls waiting to be interviewed for Pure Fashion tomorrow
- Update the Coworker Expense Report with two new receipts (I'm in charge of keeping tabs on what we buy with our coworker credit card... again, why I'm in charge of this? NO clue.)
- Call Andrea, the RC team leader, and ask her when she's planning on starting her encounters... because it's September... and there are no encounters...
SO that's my schedule so far. Again, apologies for anything that doesn't make sense. I just sat in a conference for three hours AND I only have an hour to check my email...
but I love you all and can't wait to see you at homecoming!
Love,
Sarah
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
hello.
Just so everyone knows, I'm in the upper, lefthand corner.
I must away. Walmart is calling.
Love, Sarah
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