A new outlet!

This is interesting:

http://www.truemomconfessions.com/

PC Junior Women

Outstanding Young Woman of the Year Award

goes to....

Me!

I was so surprised and honored! They keep it top secret right up til the moment they announce it. Since Lucy won the same award last year, she got to present it this year. She started in listing some of the activities I had on my resume and she looked at me and smiled, I knew then it was me! She also said some kind and thoughtful things that wasn't scripted and I almost started crying! She's so sweet and I'm lucky she's my friend!

Virginia Tech

VaTech, you're in my thoughts and prayers. Being part of a university, this news hits close to home for me.

Such a frightening disaster.

Heeps of Peeps

This was this morning when the boys got up and found their baskets.

We got them a swing set this year. Of course it's extremely cold right now and there's no way we could put it together.

I'm proud that I didn't buy them candy! I knew they'd get a boat-load from Mom and Ryan's mom... plus the egg hunt at church was full of candy too. The eggs I brought for church were full of bracelets and erasers. In their baskets from home they found movies, books, bath toys, and some other small things.

‘Inconvenient Truth’ coming to Cannelton

‘Inconvenient Truth’ coming to Cannelton

By JANET ROBB
FEATURE WRITER - Perry County News

CANNELTON — Global warming affects everyone and one Perry County resident decided to do something about it.

After watching the Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Brandi Hess said, “it struck me and made me realize that we have a crisis.” The documentary is about former Vice President Al Gore’s work to expose “myths and misconceptions that surround” global warming.

“It’s just a topic that’s very interesting,” she said. Hess enlisted the help of environmental watchdog group Valley Watch President John Blair to present “Indiana’s Inconvenient Truth” at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Cannelton Community Center. “He was able to bring (global warming) home to Indiana,” she said. She met Blair through their work at the University of Southern Indiana, where she’s a graphic designer and he’s a communications professor. Blair also presented the program at USI and in the surrounding area.

“I just wanted to bring him here to learn more about it and how we can help,” Hess said, adding that Blair is familiar with Perry County. In 1977, Blair was part of Nuclear Waste Action Committee, a group formed to protest against using what is now Hoosier National Forest as a nuclear-waste dumping site.

“Perry County certainly holds a special place with me,” Blair said, because it was the start of his more than 25 years of environmental work. “It was clear to everyone that accepting nuclear waste was a bad idea.” The area was no longer considered a dumping site and it was due to a “direct result of citizen opposition,” he said.

In the 1980s, Blair and Valley Watch joined with Tell City and Hawesville, Ky., residents to protest against a new coal plant in the area. When a company called Ensco wanted to put a hazardous-waste incinerator in Troy, Blair was also there. In both cases protestors kept waste from the area. “Anytime you invite hazardous waste into a community, it’s a bad thing,” he said.

Blair attended training along with Gore and 200 others in Nashville on how to present the information in “An Inconvenient Truth.” The first third of the presentation will be from the documentary, he said, but the rest will focus on “the tri-state and our responsibilities.”

Blair said he will touch on a number of topics including renewable resources, efficient energy use and how global warming effects not just the world, but people’s health.

Nomination

I've been nominated for Woman of the Year for Perry Co Junior Women. They seek nominations yearly and the nominees submit activity resumes for a panel of judges. Your name is blacked out so that each person gets fair judgement.

We find out the winner in a few weeks at a dinner.

I felt good about it until today when I saw who else was nominated in my age group. I don't know the other ladies except one. Whom I know is pretty involved, but I don't know how I'll stack up to her list of activities.

It's an honor just to be nominated.

No More

The bottle is gone. A couple weeks ago I decided to cut Blake off cold turkey and see how it went. He cried most of the night. I had to fight the urge to get up and make him a bottle and I eventually put the pillow over my head and tried to sleep.

And you know what? He's slept through the night every night since!