Back-Dated Posts Ahoy!

I'm catching up on writing about my Israel trip, among other things that have been sitting in draft mode for a while, and as I've mentioned before, I like to have things in chronological order. And since this is my blog and it's primary purpose is to keep a journal for myself, I get to have my way! You may picture me sticking out my tongue and saying "nyah nyah nyah" now. Blame it on Only Child Syndrome.

So, if you are reading this on a blog reader, I apologize for the out-of-orderedness of the following (preceding? Guess it depends if you read newest first or oldest first) few posts.

If you're reading this top-down from the front page of my blog, here are direct links to the new "old" posts:
Israel By Numbers (May 29th, added June 24th)
3 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days  - in which I ramble on about unemployment, depression, and my new job (April 25th, added June 26th)

And if you're reading this through a link from my Book of Face, then this really doesn't affect you!

Kitchen Science Experiments

Tonight was our end-of-year party for my Girl Scout troop. Mrs. J and I decided to have a casual event where the girls could just hang out and have fun. Mrs. J has a pool, so we invited the girls all over there for a pool party/ice cream social. Of course, it was drizzly and only in the 60s today, but the girls still had fun and 4 of them actually got in the pool.

I offered to bring the ingredients for the girls to help me make Hot Fudge Sundae Cake. It's similar to a chocolate lava cake, and a neat little science experiment. Batter with hot water on top goes into the oven, brownies with chocolate syrup underneath comes out.

The girls were awesome - read the recipe and did a good job of doubling it, took turns measuring and mixing - and I asked them all what they thought was going to happen before we put it in the oven to bake. One of the girls hit it right on, said that the baking powder would make the batter rise up through the water, but they all had at least parts of their hypotheses right. When the cake came out of the oven, they were all pretty impressed by the brownies and syrup transformation!

Our troop is taking a break for the summer, but we'll be back to doing events in August. We're hoping to go to a big nation-wide Girl Scout event next year, so we'll be doing a bunch of fundraising. We're also planning some FUN too, though. Camping, hiking, maybe skiing, and earning some cool badges. I'm so excited to be involved with Scouting again, and so happy that Mrs. J invited me to be part of their troop!

Girls can do ANYTHING!

Testing

Trying something out here...
Hopefully there is a picture that posts here! If so, it's a shot of me at one of the beach bars in Tel Aviv on my last Thursday night there.

In Which The Sorority Girls Go To The Stanley Cup Finals

Game 3 ticket for nosebleed seats on over-priced second-hand market: $600

The view from our overpriced seats

Dress embellished with B's logo: $30

Yes, I added the B's logo to the dress

Yellow wig, feather boa, and gold bead necklaces: $16

The Timmy Girls by the ice before the game

Getting on the Jumbotron 6 times; a taped CBC talking head segment; video on boston.com; photo on Yahoo Sports; getting our pictures taken by the Boston Globe, the Associated Press, and at least 1000 fans AND watching the Boston Bruins win 8-1 on home ice?

PRICELESS

8-1! Bruins Win! Bruins Win!

I have never been so paparazzi-ed in my life!

Post-game at the bar

Here's to the sorority alumnae group that brought us all together.

Proof that we did in fact start the evening looking (relatively) normal