Week 9

As you all know, Hurricane Sandy made her presence known up the NE Seaboard.  We were expecting much worse in the Boston area as she was supposed to hit a massive cold front from the west. This was to create another "Perfect Storm" type situation but over land: Nor'easter. Didn't happen, thankfully. I worked all day Monday. MBTA was shut down at 2pm just in case. We got lots of rain, flooding and wind but nothing above (in my "Florida Girl Been Through a couple Cat 5s" opinion) tropical storm level. We didn't lose power at work or here at the house. We were lucky. ARC opened up shelters for people without electricity and who got flooded. The Disaster Operation Center (DOC) was up Sunday - Thursday. Right now we're just asking for volunteers to deploy to help out in NY and NJ. I may go. I don't know yet. It's a 10-14 day commitment and I have to move in that time period. We'll see.

Here is the neighbor's tree that had a big limb fall on their Prius. I couldn't get a better one.

Here's one for mom of the house across the big road from us. It's crazy big. I wonder if it's a personal residence or a B&B type place. I don't see any signage so I'm thinking not:

Things settled down at work after our shelters closed and shifted immediately to raising money. That's the best time to get donations, after a disaster. We are government chartered but run solely on donations (no government funding at all).

To let off some steam after being so busy, Jarrett let us continue with our plans to dress up for Halloween. Fun!

 Bob as Captain Jean Luc Picard, Kelly as an ice cream cone (she made that from scratch), Shawna as a bumble bee and Jini as Medusa. 

Ashley is the Tanorexic Mom. Hilarious and very creative!

Here are the development ladies getting in to the spirit of it all. They're normally pretty stuffy but were having a good time this week. Also, here is a close up of my make up and green hair extensions (supposed to represent snakes). 

I got to have Friday night/Saturday all day Daniel time this week. I think we can make that an every 2 week thing if my schedule permits. Then when he gets his 3 days off, he'll be here. I'm loving seeing him more.

That's pretty much all that happened this week. Sandy filled the entire week!

I'm going to be using my blog for other things in addition to my weekly Boston posts. You can read or skip, it's up to you. I'm practicing my writing so I'll be blogging about tv & movie stuff and randomness.

Everyone have a great week. Thanks for all the support and checking in!

Love, Jini