Wow. I haven’t written a post since April. And I think I know why. No, we haven’t been particularly busy, though we have been doing quite a lot. The reason, I think, that I’m choosing to finally write today, on the first pleasant summer day since May, is no coincidence. It’s because it’s nice out and I like Georgia again! Last year, I experienced a thorough disdain for Georgia while sweating through my first summer in the deep south. And this year was pretty much the same. It’s freaking hot down here. And when it’s hot, I do no more than is absolutely necessary. Especially when it comes to sitting at a computer, which I do all day long for work. Prolonging time near a hot computer in a hot office is not high on my to-do list.
But today, it was actually cool (67) this morning, I was able to open all the windows and get a nice breeze rolling throughout the house, and I feel compelled to catch up on this blog. Cooler weather is certainly motivating. And — even though I find it hard to believe Weather.com about this — it’s ONLY 85 degrees right now with low humidity! Which, compared to the mid-nineties and high humidity that has hung around for the past 3 months, seems heavenly. And so, I write.
To recap quickly, here are all the haps of the last 3 months:
- My mom came to visit for Easter. It was a PERFECT time to visit Atlanta, all the spring flowers were out, but the heat hadn’t moved in yet. Just lovely. We recreated a traditional NYC Easter with my mom’s cousin who lives in Alpharetta.
- We moved! From Atlanta to Roswell, just about 20 minutes north of the city (depending on traffic, which usually sucks). The weather is actually a few degrees cooler up here, but that didn’t stop me from hating on the heat all summer.
- Greg and Kristen came to visit! This should actually be a sub-bullet to the one above, because they came all the way down here to help us move. We managed to pack (pun fully intended) a bit of fun in between the moving too.
- Mr. Dizzle started a new job! He’s now working in an operations role in Alpharetta and is enjoying it. This is the last of the 3-year rotations, so next spring we will be somewhere on a more permanent basis.
- I went to Upstate NY for a week! I hadn’t been home since Christmas, which is the longest I’ve ever been away, and it drove me nuts. I got to spend plenty of time with my parents and family, making a day trip down to Schenectady to see my aunt, cousin, and all my little mini-cousins. And of course, a visit to the annual Greek Festival and to Dinosaur BBQ. It was awesome!!
- We both got older! Mr. Dizzle celebrated his 29th birthday and Mrs. Dizzle, her 30th. Yikes.
- Mr. Dizzle went to Connecticut for his birthday weekend!
- We went to the Fox Theater! The Fox is a gorgeous old movie house in midtown Atlanta that now does both movies and stage performances. The Dizzles saw Spamalot in June and Mrs. Dizzle went with her favorite Atlanta friend Kelly to see the Sound of Music Sing A Long in July.
- We went to see the Braves! If Mr. Dizzle wasn’t such a diehard Yankees fan, I’d swear he was converting to a Braves fan with the number of games he’s been to over the past year. This particular game featured a 2 hour rain delay and a super fun-to-watch thunderstorm that rolled through the stadium and dropped temperatures about 15 degrees.
- I started working more! I’m now the Manager of Content and Community Relations at FlexJobs, which essentially means that I write the blog and other content for the website, and I manage all the social media outreach (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn). I am officially a social media nerd. And I’m back to a full-time workweek, hooray!
- Mr. Dizzle trained for and ran the Peachtree Road Race! It’s the largest 10K in the world with something like 55,000 runners and 150,000 spectators, and its held the morning of the 4th of July . And I was one of those spectators, even got to see Mr. Dizzle run by and snap his picture.
- Mr. Dizzle’s Mom visited! We spent a few days making delicious treats and we visited a nifty little butcher shop. And of course, much of the time was spent avoiding the heat.
- We went to Lake Lanier! For my birthday, I really wanted to spend the day near water, and just like my childhood birthday parties, we ended up on a pontoon boat cruising around Lake Lanier all day, stopping to swim and check out the beaches. Complete with cheese puffs and floaties.
- We started watching Boardwalk Empire! Yeah, I realize this has absolutely nothing to do with living in Georgia, but it’s a great show! So great, that I even created a Pandora radio station based on the music of the time. Now I do my work to ragtime, early jazz, and Al Jolson. What can I say? I’m a sucker for mob culture and old-timey music.
- We did a bunch of other stuff! The disadvantage of waiting 3 months to write is that I can’t remember all the fun stuff we’ve done since I last wrote. Which should be motivation enough to write again soon, but we shall see if that works…
) and Shaun’s sister, aka, the self-proclaimed ‘Zilla (short for Bridezilla, though I haven’t seen anything close to bad behavior from her, haha). SO EXCITED!!!!!!!Filed under: Atlanta GA, Roswell GA, Tully NY
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