A touching story

One of the many reasons I am proud to work at the Mayo Clinic:

I recently read this blog post, Learning Perspective, on the new Sharing Mayo Clinic Blog — A blog with stories from patients, families, friends and Mayo Clinic staff. Definitely makes you think of what we can learn from the children, and from Jeff who came up with this creative idea!

Another thing I love at the Mayo Clinic is the music played at the Gonda Building (I think sometimes they have it at Charlton as well, but I don’t go there much.) Sometimes we have musicians playing on the piano and someone else singing. Sometimes I see staff playing. Sometimes I see patients playing. Regardless, there is always an appreciative audience. I just wish I have more time to stay and listen to the end of the song and clap for them.

~ christa

Girl Scouts Cookie Creations

Justin and I went to the Girl Scouts Cookie Creations event on Thursday. I haven’t been before, so was totally looking forward to it!

Overall, it was a fun event, but it was WAY TOO CROWDED. The line was quite long, and you could hardly move. It started at 5:30pm, and you could submit you favorite creations (vote) by 6:30 pm, and they’d announce the winner by 7pm. We got there around 5:45 pm, and by 6:30 pm, we only managed to have 2 items (from the some booth no less)! We managed to go around once, but some vendors already ran out of food by the time we got there For the food that we did try, I quite liked the sushi Coco-Nut Girl Scout Roll from Sushi Itto. Justin liked the Baby Back Ribs with Trefoil Crunch Coating from Roscoe’s. The Dulce de Leche Chai Tea Shake from Vintage Light Coffee and Tea House was quite yummy too. I haven’t been to their cafe yet, should pay them a visit.

I think if they expect the same turnout next year (and it was GREAT that they had a big turn out!), they need to find a bigger space for sure. And see if there’s a way to improve the flow / efficiency so the wait isn’t so long and that food won’t run out which is a big disappointment. We’re still glad we went.

Pleasant surprise in the mail!

A while back, I signed up on Seth Godin’s blog to see if I could get a free book - The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz. I didn’t receive an email to notify that I “won” a book so I kinda forgot about it.

So it was a nice surprise when I received it in the mail over the weekend! There was a note that asked to do a review of the book, and then pass it on to someone else who would be interested.

Consider that done!

If anyone in Rochester MN would like to receive the book after I have finished reading it (my next book to read), then please leave me a note. First come first serve! If you could do a review (on your blog, or amazon.com) that’d be wonderful. And please pass it on after you read it!

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Speaking of books, I am behind with 18 book reviews… will get them done after getting my tax done… argh. Definitely not one thing I look forward to.

~ christa