Caiti's 14th Birthday - Party Details

If you came last year, you'll know where to go. If not, I've got directions and a link below.

We'll be having karaoke again, pizza & cake. It will be pretty cold, so either dress in layers or dress really warm! We are going to try and have a fire to roast marshmallows and make s'mores, but don't know for sure if weather will permit.

Google link: http://bit.ly/2pObuL

If you are a Dalton native you know there are a hundred ways to get to Crow Valley Road. If you know where Dr. Chung's house is, this barn is right beside it. If not, then bare with me.

Coming from I-75 NB turn L onto Hwy 41/76 (North Bypass).

1. Turn R on Willowdale Road


2. Take first L onto Crow Valley Road


3. Follow for 2.7 miles before coming to a T intersection w/Poplar Springs Rd.


4. Turn L to stay on Crow Valley Road


5. Driveway to the barn will be about 1 mile further on your left (the pic below should help).


We will have a BRIGHT sign and pumpkin on the fence post. Luckily some folks have a semi-circle drive just past it in case you need to turn around. ;)

Jason's Ocoee Birthday Trip

We had the most fantastic time with Sunburst Rafting in Ocoee Saturday. Jason, Chad, Jamie & I rafted the upper Ocoee (the site of 1996 Olympics) with our awesome guide Dane. No one was a swimmer, we learned we are no the most coordinated group of paddlers and we enjoyed ourselves immensley. I suggest you view the burst of pictures that were taken as we crested the last big rapid.

one foot in front of the other

every day seems I am wishing my life away. I get up with the push towards the end of the day till I get home, that time flies by until bed time, which I consistently push further back, only to wake up and start the circle all over again.

things I am looking forward to:

• Mad Men on AMC, premiering August 16th. w00t I can't wait.
• Jase's birthday suprise. August 22nd. Really can't wait, especially since he has no idea and better keep his little sneaky eyes out of my data in an attempt to find out what it is.

I intend on bringing caiti.net over to squarespace. Not because I don't love my current website host (Jase), but because I want all my photo pages, 99% of the pages at that site, to look pretty. I know I can do this with iWeb, but I so like squarespace I want to integrate everything here. Anyone know an excellent tutorial? Some sort of applescript that will take my photos from there & make galleries here? No? Too much to ask?

She was born a travelling girl...

My Caiti is now on her 7th day of international travel. She's headed to Surfer's Paradise in a few hours. I absolutely cannot wait till I can see the pics. I know she's having an amazing time. 

I still have to find a replacement for my camera which was lost during our wonderful time at Stone Mountain. No sarcasm there, our entire visit was indeed wonderful. I just mukked up and managed to lose my camera. Which was retarded, but at least it was before I'd taken a lot of great pics with it. It was after I'd stuck our tickets to Stone Mountain inside the new case though, so it was around a $400/loss. Sucky. 

Have work to do. Ppl actually expect this stuff to get done. And they think I'm crazy. 

time flys by..

ok, second verse, same as the first. my second attempt at this, hopefully firefox combined with crappy crappy work pc will hold out for me this time. First flaw found with SquareSpace - no auto saving of draft.

it seems like I've posted already here this week, but lack of said post proves me wrong. I'm dead bored at work, and I have ONE more day of this exact same thing before I head off to Stone Mountain w/Caiti & Jase for a little mini-vacation.

Caiti is leaving for her trip on Tuesday, making a tour beginning in Auckland, New Zealand, including many parts of Australia and spending 3 days in Honolulu before heading back to LAX, and finally coming home. w00t!! I am so thrilled she's going, and I've got her set up with funds, huge memory card for her camera so I'll get lots of beautiful shots. Hopefully I'll also get a few keepsakes to remember this monumental trip. :)

Of course, she's my baby and I'm nervous about that. She's leaving the country, visiting 3 places which rank in my top 5 places I've wanted to go, ever. The other two are Vegas and MOVE to Oregon.

If you've read any of my blog, or shared conversations with me on twitter, then you know I don't always believe in capitalization, especially in cases where its there more as definition of beginning a sentence. Now, in all my professional communications, and usually personal as well when I don't know the part I am communicating with, I adhere to strict usage of all things right with grammar, punctuation, capitalization, etc. But on my blog, or in tweets, I don't. That's because when I reached the age of majority, I had long ago decided, I would write the way I see fit. I am not getting graded on it. I prefer to sign my name all lowercase, and usually that's the way you'll see me do anywhere online. I just never liked capital Hs and that's most likely due to how many times I was made to repeat them while learning "cursive" in elementary school. Both my first and last name began with H and I've just never been able to produce one I felt was pretty enough. My lower case hs are the bomb though.

That's enough of grammatically correct heather. On to the show...