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Spring Fling PaintBall!!

Geeta Bhat DDS — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:26:28 +0000

Our past bowling party was such a blast so we all decided to challenge ourselves to paintball. Cary office versus Pinehurst. We all thought that paintball might hurt so we tossed around the idea of laser tag instead but decided to go for the gusto and stuck to the paintball idea. Apparently, Raleigh has several different paintball options so we chose Black River Paintball in Angier. Everyone was asked to bring someone so we had a mix of our staff and their friends, spouses, former employees and it was awesome. Let me tell you for those who have never played before….paintball hurts! Dr. Wiist was the first to hit me right in the butt…..OW! Everyone got hit, except Eujenia. I teased her for cowering in fear behind a tree but she swears she was playing…she just didn’t end up taking one for the team We crawled through the mud….ran through the forest course and dodged behind anything we could find. We played amongst ourselves and then a group of 12 year olds who were at the paintball facility for a birthday party challenged us to capture the flag. Since the teams were uneven in terms of number I asked them to pick any two staff from our team to play for theirs. Their leader picked Erikka and Matt from our Cary office. These 12 year old gave us a good fight. They were actually very sophisticated plyers as I found when I was crawling through the mud on my hands and knees and one of them threw a smoke bomb my way. Clever! I could barely see and then the paintball came and splattered all over me. The only thing I want to know is….when can we play again and how is it that we played for three hour and I still didn’t get Andrea!

Sprint Triathalon

Geeta Bhat DDS — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:06:44 +0000

Another one off the bucket list! Now that the Disney Princess Half Marathon came and went I needed another goal. My cousin in D.C. mentioned to me that many people would like to do a triathalon but the swimming is what is the tough part for most. He knew that I did swim team all through high school and so he thought that I could do it. I decided to give it a try. Last Sunday I completed my first Sprint Triathalon. It was the Triangle Orthopaedic Sprint Tri at NC State consisting of a 750m open water swim, 10 mile bike and 5K. The swim went great but the bike part was tough. Bikers whipped right by my as I leisurely rode through my 10 miles. I’m just glad I didn’t get hit by a car. I can’t beleive that I did it and I made it. Next on the list…Nation’s triathalon in D.C.!

1% Beauty 99% Beast! Disney Princess Half Marathon 2012

Geeta Bhat DDS — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:27:19 +0000

We did it!! Several months ago we decided to go from couch to half marathon. After what seemed like endless months of training Andrea, Eujenia and myself made our way to Disney World for the Disney Princess Half Marathon. Running along our favorite princesses was so much fun. I dressed up as my favorite princess Belle and Andrea went as Mickey Mouse. Eujenia whipped up an awesome Snow White costume and off we went! Eujenia was so fast that she was off as soon as they gave the go for the start. Andrea and I kept a steady pace and made our way down the highway, through the Disney Castle in Disney world and finished the run at Epcot. There were 20,000 runners and we were some of them. What a great experience!

Office Bowling Night

Geeta Bhat DDS — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:35:50 +0000

Our Cary office staff and Pinehurst office staff hadn’t seen each other in several weeks, since our Christmas Party in early Decemeber. We missed each other so we all decided to get together for a fun night of Bowling. One Saturday evening we met at a delicious mexican restaurant in Sanford, Don Felipe’s. After feasting on some yummy chips, salsa and our main courses we headed out for a night of Bowling. There the competition began, it was Cary vs Pinehurst and it was a close call! So we decided to play a second game, this time it was based by scores from round 1, the highest bowler from team Cary against the highest bowler from team Pinehurst. Here’s some pictures of our fun night out! Our next adventure: Paintballing!

Welcome Erika!

Geeta Bhat DDS — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:13:45 +0000

Finding a new patient relations manager has been so much tougher than I ever thought. It is so imporant to me that there are no weak links on my team. Each person I hire is a representation of who we are and those decisions need to be made with careful thought. For the last 4 months we have been searching for the right fit. I think I must have run at least 4 newspaper ads and received over 100 resumes. With the economy as it is, we received resumes from so many qualified people that it made this journey extra tough. Once we sorted through the resumes we brought people in for working interviews. Many places don’t do that but I like to approach things differently. A professional athelete never gets the job without a try-out so why should employment be different. I want to make sure that our new teammate can step up to the plate. We conducted about 6 working interviews and the people we met were all nice. We narrowed our list down until it came to two people. They both did working interviews and after the “try outs” were over we made our choice, Erikka. We offered her the job and she said yes. She is a mom of two school age kids (Go Cheetahs and Wallabies!) and she was a great fit. I think that patients will like her as much as we do. Welcome to our team Erika!!

Disney Princess Half Marathon on Feb 2012

Geeta Bhat DDS — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:05:54 +0000

In my efforts to lose the perrenial few pounds I decided to start running for weight loss. I ran into one of our long term patients at the South Point Mall, Mrs. I and she and her husband told me that they biked there from Apex on the American Tobacco Trail. I asked her about the trail and it sounded like a good place to run. Andrea, my dental assistant of five years who has already lost 30lbs, decided to join me for a run. We were running there together and to my surprise, Andrea was faster than me. I asked her if she would consider coming to the Disney Princess Half Marathon and running the race with me. The Disney Princess Half Marathon is an all female run that is set in Disney World and Epcot Center this Feb 2012. I can’t think of a better place to run….the magic of Disney, lots of characters to cheer you on, running through the Disney Castle and tons of princess power! Andrea is from California and has spent lots of time in Disney land so she was excited to come. Her cousin Eujenia, who is also my practice manager decided to come as well. From this point onwards, we have been training weekly getting ready for the race. It has been both fun and miserable. Getting up early on cold days and endless miles of running and running. Running the Tobacco Trail has been interesting, though. Andrea and I have run into lots of our patient’s mom’s on the trail. It was pretty funny because one day all three of us were running and one of our patient’s, Mrs. F was running as well and we saw her on the trail. She saw Andrea and I and then Eujenia a mile down the road. She asked if our whole office was running that day! I came in the next morning and told the rest of the staff that we ran into Mrs. F on the trail and in the funniest coincidence she happen to be in our reception room that day and said, “That was me!” We all had a great laugh. Unbeknowst to us, she is a seasoned marathon runner and we picked her brain for tips on making our run better. Thanks to Mrs. F for all the helpful tips! We had no idea that many of our parents were runners, too. Not just average runners but marathon runners. Pretty Awesome! Thus far, Andrea has run about 60 miles over the past several months and so have I. Eujenia is a much more advanced runner than we are so she trains solo. Andrea and I run about the same speed so we are well matched. It has been so exciting to feel the progress and accomplishment of starting with a one mile run back in September and doing 9 miles together this past weekend. We’ve come a long way and of course, the grand finale of our hardwork…the princess half marathon in less then 2 months away. The next challenge is to figure out what Disney Princess costume to wear for the race? Belle is my favortie and Andrea’s favorite is Ariel. We’ll keep you posted!

Welcome to our Blog!

Geeta Bhat DDS — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:49:24 +0000

This is our first official post! For the past several years our wonderful graphic designer Jennifer Ray has been taking care of our website but now, with her help, we have taken it over. I am looking forward to posting updates about the office, our staff and the fun stuff that is going on over here. Stay Tuned!

Our New Website

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:27:05 +0000

Things are looking a little different around here!

At Geeta Bhat DDS, we want to make sure our clients get the best service possible. To make your experience with us even easier, we’ve partnered with Redwood Productions to bring you a new and improved, easy-to-use website.