The Neon Nurse's Charting

As you may recall, I took off last week at 3am to go to a training session for people who are officers in their county (Democratic) parties. It was excellent, not just for content but for it being presented in do-able step-by-step format. I can't say I came home ENERGIZED, because I was exhausted for the first few days I was home. (Having your brain asplode with too much new info will do that to a person.) But I did get inspired to try to organize my time and priorities better. I seem to have let personal communications slip off to the side, though, and that's not good. So I'm still in beta, I guess.

Here's an example of me doing new ideas. I set up a table with voter registration forms and info at our local elementary school's Cinco de Mayo festival last night. That's Prowers County's youngest activist, Mr. Mike, helping me. (I had to stop him from shouting at passersby to come talk to us so they could vote....)



Those glasses Mike is wearing are new. He picked them himself. Up close I think they have a sort of Buddy Holly meets Devo look. The day we picked them up I had to stop by our county chair's office. She has a high school DECA helper who MIke knew slightly from when they were both in middle school. My normally shy boy strolled up to her, KNOWING he was looking fine, and suavely said, "Oh, hel-LO there!"

This is a fun age. In the same way extreme roller coasters are fun. Yikes.

One more little thing about the training I went to. It was held at a place called Shadows Ranch, just outside of Georgetown, Colorado. Their main business is as a place to hold weddings. It was chock-full of arty, whimsical decor. Also, they have a small wolf habitat. The wolves seemed to find staring in the picture window at the people highly entertaining.