Trivia Tuesday

In honor of the first real snow fall I've seen in the past year (4 inches last night!) below is an interesting fact about snow:

Snow at the North and South Poles reflect heat into space. The snow and ice act like a mirror with the heat of the sun and the heat bounces off the snow/ice and into space!

Hello Again!

Wow. It's been nearly a month now since I've last posted. I've had a bit of writer's block lately and haven't really had much to say I guess.


Earlier this month we celebrated Elevation's second birthday. It was a day full of events including a carnival themed volunteer push (we signed up over 500 new volunteers!), 165 baptisms in the afternoon and a rockin' concert in the evening!


The past two weeks I've been busy getting the new guest services volunteers plugged in to their first experiences. It's been a great experience. Everyone that I've talked with and spent time with over the past couple weeks have been super nice and just so excited and committed to volunteering. We are so blessed to have such a great new wave of volunteers joining the team.


Two weeks ago we had our first big win in flag football. All season we've played some competitive teams, but the opposing players have all been really nice. However, this time the team was not so nice. They had some big guys on their team who were really playing rough. Now, I'm no wimp, I can take aggressive, but these guys were just not playing fairly. Jessi got sandwiched between two guys trying to take her down and ended up with a golf ball sized bump on her knee and was limping the rest of the day, Jenny got knocked down to the ground and hit her head and had a bit of whiplash the next day and there were a few other penalties that they committed as well. On one play I went up for a catch and stoved my finger pretty bad. The finger looked like it was broken and it started swelling right away. Well, the finger swelled to about twice it's size and I still had my wedding band on (of course I had to hurt that finger, but thankfully I had taken off my engagement ring before the game). I ended up going to urgent care later in the day and they had to cut the ring off. Our bands are a little thick and it took the two nurses about 5-10 minutes to cut through the ring, then another 5-10 minutes to spread the ring apart far enough to get it over the enormous finger. I had a few x-rays and determined that it was not broken. Yea! Two weeks later and the middle knuckle is still swollen and bruised. It will go down eventually, but not as quickly as I had hoped.


Yesterday I made my way up to Detroit for a week in the office. I flew into Detroit Metro, made my way over to Hertz, got myself a sweet ride and made it to GP by about 7:30/8. I was greeted by my mom and dad and we watched some of the Oscars before I headed up for bed. Today was my first day in the Doner office since December and it was so nice to see everyone again. I also got to meet a few of my co-workers who I have only met over the phone. It's going to be a long week having to get up at 6am and actually drive in to work with rush hour, but I think I'll make it through. :)

Trivia Tuesday

If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all front legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

O Canada!

Today's Tuesday Trivia is dedicated to all things Canadian:

The name "Canada" is derived from the Huron-Iroquois word "kanata," meaning a village.

The Canadian national anthem, O Canada, has been sung since the late 1800s. However, it was not proclaimed Canada's National Anthem until 1980.

The 10th province to join the Confederation was Newfoundland. (Yea! Great Big Sea!)

Curling is the official sport of Saskatchewan. Nearly 1 million Canadians play the game and more than 3 million watch it on T.V.

Canadians consume more macaroni and cheese (or Kraft Dinner), per capita, than any other nationality on Earth.

Butler just became my favorite campus!

What a fantastic weekend!

I spent the day Saturday at the church offices training for a new volunteer position I'm moving in to at Elevation. In the morning, Larry spoke to the group and re-cast the vision of the church for us as well as filled us in on the culture of Elevation and the best way to explain it to volunteers. The afternoon was then spent learning our new database and practicing data-entry.

I am so excited and feel so blessed and privledged to be given this opportunity to become a leader in the church. While I know that I am going to struggle in the beginning with a couple aspects of this position, I believe that God has given me this challenge and, with His help, I will succeed.

God is doing amazing things through Elevation and I am honored to be a part of it. What a privledge to know that God has led me to this place to fill this role and help Elevation reach those far from God so they may be filled with life in Christ!

Megakatamar

When my sisters and I were younger (middle school-aged) we spent our summers making movies. My mom would go to work in the morning and leave us with a chore list to do. However, she would come home to a bigger mess than when she left (sorry mom!). My oldest sister, Katie, would take the lead as producer/director and Mary and I would be tasked to come up with props/set design. We were each responsible for our own costumes.

This would be a full day event. We made some chin-head videos, lip-sync concerts and murder mysteries. I would say our specialty was music videos with songs from Bon Jovi, Guns 'N Roses, Warren G and yes, even Hanson.

We eventually accredited the videos to our production company, Megakatamar Productions, and would enlist some help from our cousins at family parties or at the cottage. The Booth clan made some fantastic movies such as The Nativity Story, however the all-time classic is Trouble at Glitter Bay in which a developer is planning to ruin Mr. McGregor's land! Don't worry though, Mary, Hannah and Grace save the day!

When we found the video below on YouTube, we could not help but notice the similarities in the two brothers to my two sisters. This is just dead-on to what Katie and Mary would do. Katie would of course be the older brother trying to take a nice picture for mom, while Mary would be the younger, laid-back brother who ends up driving the older brother crazy.

Even if you don't know my sisters this video is still hilarious. Enjoy...

Trivia Tuesday

Did you know...

New Bern, NC is the birthplace of Pepsi?


It was invented in 1898 by Caleb Bradham in his pharmacy in New Bern and was first named "Brad's Drink." Bradham later patented the drink as Pepsi Cola and his pharmacy is now a Pepsi museum.


Find more information about New Bern and the Birth Place of Pepsi here.