El planear vagar otra vez

I'm planning to roam again - this time to Mexico, Tiajauna. In july with Fellowship's youth group. This alone is TOTALLY the Holy Spirit wrangling, as I never come up with "Mexico" when it comes to "where can I go to help Jesus do stuff?" and I've not done anything with our youth group - odd as that's ALL I do is "youth things." So it's easy to see how this is not just one of those ME things - I have way too many of those anyway!!!

Sidebar - as I type this -Kaa is just OH SO adorable - he's curled up in his den (which for visual purposes, is a large plastic plant base, flipped upside down with a sqare cut out of the side to make a mouth of the cave)...anyway- his little head is propped up on his body and it's just peeking out of the den - too cute. Yes, for all you non-snake people, I'm odd - accept it.

So this trip truly is going to be exciting - I get more and more excited every time we meet. We'll be at the dump site -mostly with children, doing "vacation Bible school" type of activities - with games, crafts, drama, music and a Bible story. We learned, as a group, to sing, "I've got the joy, joy, joy , joy...down in my heart (donde?) this week - and I truly think, if I would take every kid song I know, every Broadway musical and every Disney record I grew up with, and got the spanish translation, I would learn Spanish pretty quickly!

But, I won't ponder tooo much into the future - in the TODAY - there's still school, although the seniors are more or less gone, just in and out to turn things in - and of course I'll be crashing the senior breakfast on Thursday to see their slide show (and to lift a biscuit or two).

YL - the TRASH DASH is this Saturday (as is every other event known to mankind) - it'll be a proverbial HOOT. To raise money for camp - the kids (ugh! and I HATE using that word) collect sponsors per bag, who will donate so much money (probably not more than 1 or 2$) per bag. Then we'll all go out to some nasty location and pick up trash. They can't claim more than 10 bags, even if they get more - but hey - 20 sponsors at 2$ a bag - that's all the 400 they need for camp.

Then of course at the end of next week (once I figure out if I really do have inservice or not) is WINDY GAP. And this is where I say "thank you Jesus" indeed - it's been since Nov of 2003 since I got to go to any kind of camp and I'm grateful and NOT taking it for granted.

Wow - it's amazing how much I can come up with when I'm not swamped wtih play practice or Lowe's runs - after every show, I think about petitioning them to change the name to "Erin's" or at least let me be the spokeschick - kind of like what Ty Pennington does for Sears.

One last thing, then I'll go check on whatever it is I'm cooking for supper (goodness, but I miss Stacie, who cooked!) - I learned how to CHANGE MY OIL today - Nathan is QUITE multi-talented, and like me, has a father who raised him around that kind of thing - unlike me - he paid attention!!

Kaa

He suffered thermal burn on half his body - sigh. But he's MUCH better now - he had been in shed mode when I left for London. When he gets like that, I don't pick him up. He was still shedding when I returned. (It figures into play that during my last move, his habitat thermometer went missing, and I never replaced it). So, I still didn't pick him up - by the time I DID, half his body was badly burnt on the underside - old heating pad is my best guess - sad face. I'm only glad I caught it when I did. So I go into complete PANIC mode, only to discover at 1AM, there are no emergency exotic vets on duty in Knoxville. So I had to wait a day - took him to UT Vet school - and they are FANTASTIC. Long story short - he's better - on antibiotic -to which I have to take him in every three days, since I can't hold him and give a shot at the same time. Ironic though, is the fact that they gave me silvadene for him - the EXACT same ointment that they gave me for my radiation burn. Right now, he's out basking next to his water bowl - and looking oh-so cute!!!

Closing show

To come full circle...is cause to dance and laugh and be thankful and clap my hands with grateful glee to mighty God. I am allowed now to use the "remission" word, and what a difference a year makes. A year ago - I could not finish out my theatre season, as I was starting chemo. A year ago, I had just been diagnosed and I went, albeit a bit shaky, to prom. Now, I just closed out our season with the BEST play I've seen them do - "Hay Fever" by Noel Coward - BRILLIANT! The fun part, of course, is that almost everyone I mentioned this to in London, was familiar with this play, and were impressed (even if slightly) that my Vagabonds were doing it. They worked hard and impressed me mightily.

As far as prom - let's face it, as grown-up girls - we don't get to dress up that much - so for me, getting a once a year, "glam it up" opportunity, is a perk! Jeremy was my escort - we had PLANNED to go on the motorcycle - the weather did not want to comply - no matter - we had a MARVELOUS time.

Yes, I've been horribly lazy about blogging - until last week, I'd been tied up with the show. Now I have a sick python (totally my fault - sigh), but he's MUCH better - poor darling - he's got to go in to the vet every three days for antibiotic shots. I'd give them myself, but I can't manage him and the shots - and the only person I know who COULD manage him while I did the shot, is defending our country most fabulously right now.