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Kat |
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12/27/2008 7:52 PM |
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| Life in a Suburban Neighborhood as seen through the eyes of a childless, married woman in her twenties. Read all about her adventures with the crazy people in the neighborhood, her interactions with those outside of the neighborhood and her adventures outside of the suburbs. |
By Kat on
6/23/2009 11:17 AM
 As I told you all before, I’m volunteering at a summer camp this weekend with 36 high school students. There are bunches more of kids but I’m just hanging with those 36 for this week. We’re doing things like swimming in the lake (okay, I haven’t YET but I MIGHT tomorrow – lakes are icky unless you are on a boat), play giant soccer, climbing rock walls, eating meals blindfolded, playing night games (like in the dark. The REALLY, REALLY dark) and singing songs at a campfire.Mostly though, I’m sweating. The weather is hot and humid. No breeze. Sure, everyone is sweaty but really, I don’t see very many people with hair soaked through 15 minutes after breakfast. Today was one of those days where you shower in the morning, at lunch, during nap time, during free time and just before bed just to cool off and feel semi comfortable. Forget clean, I left clean at home.
It was one of those days where you change bras and t-shirts 3 times just so they can air out and dry up before you change back into it while the others dry. Where you step out of your Old Navy shorts that you loved when you bought them last week but you vow to never wear again as they melt, yes, melt to the floor.
God, I love summer camp.
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By Kat on
6/23/2009 4:19 AM
I’m gone for the week but before I left I took some photos of my garden. I have some peas, green beans and lettuce that are ready to eat NOW but I won’t be at home to do it and Jay only eats veggies when I’m home so I pray that they won’t go bad before I get home to eat them!
I am loving having a garden in the backyard. It makes me feel accomplished when I see a flower turn into a tomato or a squash or a bean! Next year my garden will rock. Right now I give myself a C in the gardening department but next year I’m shooting for an A+!
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By Kat on
6/22/2009 4:09 AM
Unless the evergreens are distributing wireless internet signals, my internet access will be limited or non existent this whole week. I’ll be directing a high school summer camp this week as a volunteer. I’ll be coming back home Wednesday for some work stuff but other than that, I’ll be hanging out in the nurse’s cabin or something this week.
To tide you over, I’ve preset a few posts to magically appear throughout the week. If I can, I’ll jump on and share my adventures with you!
Monday:
Kat (Me): I’ll be eating camp food that is actually really good! The camp chef has worked there for 12 years and most kids say that the camp food is one of their favorite things about camp (only in America).
My Husband Jay: Mac N’ Cheese I’m sure.
Tuesday: I’ll have camp food again.
Jay: Ramen probably.
Wednesday: More camp food.
Jay: Hot Dogs or something.
Thursday: Camp food for me!
Jay: More Mac N’ Cheese.
Friday: Camp food and then fast food on my way out of town for my sister in law’s bachelorette weekend.
Jay: Pizza
Saturday: Something home cooked with chicken.
Sunday: Dinner at the Non Profit.
Have a super week! Stay cool and pray for no more rain!
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By Kat on
6/19/2009 2:42 PM
 Last week, a friend of mine asked  me to go with her to get her hair cut. Really, she was asking me to chop 10 inches off of my own hair so that we would both donate it to lock of love. I insisted that my hair was colored (I know! And you thought it was natural too, right?) and damaged. Nope, they’ll take it, she said. I protested more; it’s not long enough, it will be too short, I have weddings this summer, I’ve been growing it out forever!
I’ve pretty much always had long hair, except for the great hair debacle of senior year. I love having long hair, or at least, not having short hair. It’s not like I ever do anything with it but I love it just the same. My friend’s request got me thinking. When I went to the hair dresser on Monday I prepared her for chopping off my locks in the fall…maybe.
My hair has never been easy to deal with. It’s frizzy, it’s dry, it’s oily, it’s damaged, its blah. Once I asked my friend Annie how her hair always looked so beautiful. She told me it’s a combination of product and maintenance. She was right but she forgot that genetics are also a BIG part of it. Remember my big idea to save money, use OPS (Other People’s Shampoo)? Well, at my hair appointment two weeks after this big idea, my hairdresser (the magician) asked me if I had been doing anything different because my hair felt (and looked) dray (awful). Yeah, apparently Other People don’t use shampoo as good as mine. So, I went back to my good shampoo.
Well, my new online buddy is doing an experiment too; she’s not going to shampoo her hair anymore. Ever again…unless the experiment ends poorly. I think she’s nuts but mainly because I don’t think I could ever do it. I know it’s not the same thing but I abstained from washing my hair at all for the past 4 ½ days. It’s horrible. What do you all think of her experiment? What kind of shampoo do you use and why? Have you ever gone without?
She’s documenting everything that I would ever want to know and she’s running into many of the same problems that I would have guessed I’d run into too. She has smoother hair than I do even when I use product and tools so I’d expect she’d have better luck but either way, I’m glad she’s doing it so I don’t have to. My bet is that she cuts her hair short soon because then the results will be better and maintenance will be easier.
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