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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Group Fundraiser and Training Update

May 24, 2012
Well this has been an interesting week, I feel like I have so much to write.

First off, I went to a fundraising meeting on Monday.  Our “team bowl-a-thon” is going to be Sunday, July 22 in Altamonte.  I don’t know if they are intentionally planning everything on bad weekends for me or if this is truly a coincidence.  The actual run is on the Sunday of my high school reunion, which I’ve been looking forward to for Years.  Everyone else is flying to San Fran on Friday, but I’m going to fly out Sat morning so I can at least attend the Friday’s “family event”.  Being unmarried and without children, this is not the most appealing event to me, but you do what you have to, right?  Anyways, July 22 is Also a horrible weekend for me.  My birthday is Friday, I have a bachelorette party in out of town Saturday, and Sunday is my boyfriend’s birthday.  Similar to October, I have Nothing Else planned any other weekend in July except for This weekend.  >>sigh<<

                The meeting went well except I have a very short patience with side track conversations.  First off, we got there at 6:30, but waited around until everyone arrived a little after 7.  The location was 25 minutes from my house, so Michelle and I had to Rush out of work to get there on time… so we could stand around.  Once the meeting started, we were productive, but had to keep bringing everyone back to focus… stop arguing over stupid details, let’s keep it moving.  Michelle and I volunteered for the marketing and design team.  I’m excited for this, if I can find the time to get it done lol.  I’m making our flyers and Michelle is doing the tickets.  It will be $15 for shoes and 2 hours of unlimited bowling, $10 for kids under 11.  I think that’s a pretty sweet deal.  I might even try to make my “birthday party” at this event so I can force all of my friends to attend.  They want to do raffles though and we’re all supposed to get companies to donate items.  I really hate asking companies to donate, so if you know anyone who would, send em my way!  Around 8:30, I was tired and grouchy, so Michelle and I left.  I don’t know if she was ready to leave, but I was DONE-ZO, so we headed out.  Got home around 9.  What a long day!  We were out of town at a wedding Sat/Sun and I’m going out of town again on Thursday, so I’m feeling really crunched for time.  The bowling event sounds really fun, minus my sour attitude this Monday, and I’m pretty sure I can get a bunch of people to come.

The other major drawback this week was that I cut my foot on Saturday.  I’m not exactly sure what I cut it on.  We must have been having so much fun that I didn’t even notice a big chunk of my skin get ripped off… until I looked down and saw blood.  I tried my best to keep it clean.  Two friends held me down while they cut the hanging skin off (gross, right??), then we poured the only antiseptic we had on it… vodka.  OUCH!  The next day we went in the ocean.  Salt water also cleans, right??  Well, by Tuesday, I was hardly able to walk on it.  With my trip to Chicago getting very close, I decided it was best to go have my foot checked out and yes, it had gotten infected.  I got a tetanus shot, topical antibiotics and oral antibiotics.  So while sleeping, I can’t lay on my right side because my foot hurts and I can’t lay on my left side because it feels like someone is Ripping my arm off.  And needless to say, I have been unable to run since last Saturday.  Not cool.

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