August Rush

Summer has come and gone, and school is here (or just around the corner - depending who you talk to).

It's been a busy month: a new job for me, with school starting on Monday; and a new semester for Karis, with a job starting soon.

Both my mom and brother were born in August, he's in Utah and we'll be seeing her tomorrow. Karis and I are also going out to lunch tomorrow with my boss and a co-worker for an end of the summer wrap-up.

I've had a lot of free time this week, at least compared to 13 hours out of the house some days this summer, and Karis and I have made it back in the kitchen a few times.

We came up with a great double boiler technique tonight.

Back to Season One of Burn Notice.

School's Out (and that meant no homework!)

Actually, school will be in shortly; Karis starts school a week from tomorrow and public schools start the week after. During the last week of school a teacher asked if I would sub for her the first week of school (she was going to still be on vacation), but she hasn't contacted me in months and I don't have her info.

Karis is done working at Food Lion, she'll be back at the elementary school in the fall and we thought 2 jobs and a full credit load (7 different classes) was unnecessary.

My last day of camp was Friday, I worked from 8am-7pm (with an hour of travel time each way). But it was a great summer.

We had a week together of summer vacation before camp started, so I guess this is our second (and last) week of summer.

Today is church, Ultimate Frisbee with Yootz and a pastor's class with middle schoolers.

Tomorrow is hiking with the college fellowship.

And Tuesday is a church meeting, and then going camping for a few days with some settlers in Catan.

I don't think I mentioned, but last Sunday I officially started working as the Youth Director at Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church. We have a great group of kids ("Yootz"), and I can't wait for the school year to start.

As you can tell, it's an exciting time in the Nolen house.