1. Festival of Trees Part 1:
The girls and I decided to go to the annual Festival of Trees. It is a charity event where people donate elaborately decorated trees and they are auctioned off for a Children's Hospital. This event is huge and quite popular here in Utah. One tree even went for $26,000. what? Anyway, as you can imagine, the parking lot at the expo center was a circus. People were circling like sharks and using every parking lot trick imaginable. We've all done it. The slowly inching behind pedestrians, sitting in an aisle off to the side, waving along everyone behind us, throwing on the blinker, quickly b-lining it toward a pedestrian in another aisle...you get the picture. Well we had paid our dues and gone up and down several aisles and had been one car too late for about 10 or so minutes when finally we saw a couple move toward their vehicle. Jackpot. We were the closest and next car. turn the blinker on. and bam--totally blindsided by a parking spot thief. What? Seriously? I know it's only a parking spot but there is some etiquette to parking and we were clearly there first. We pulled behind them and did the "what the" with our arms up in the air and were about to move along when the lady totally gloated about it. She comes up to our rolled down window and snottily boasts about what an awesome spot she just got. She was somehow proud of her husband's ability to be a snake. We found a spot a few minutes later and I was almost over it until I saw her and her smug little husband standing in line. My blood was boiling. I had fire in my eyes as I practially ran toward them and told them what I thought of them. I'm a little embarrased at my behavior because at that moment I was no better than they were but I couldn't help myself. There are few things that get me irritated and sadly enough, this stupid parking spot was one of them. Bah Hum Bug. In the spirit of Christmas, I wished upon them a non-injury accident. Had it not been Christmas, I might have wished upon them an injury accident :) Tis' the Season.
2. Arts & Crafts:
Kim and I decided to do craft hour the weekend before our little black and white soiree. Well, actually I decided for us and roped Kim into helping :) We were pretty proud of ourselves with what we created with foam cones, glitter paper, a glue gun and silver ornaments. We cranked the tunes and got crazy with our mad craft skills and we even got excited to use the dustbuster to clean up. They may as well put us in the nursing home now. :) It was after 11 and I started to pack up and get ready to head home when I got a phone call from an unrecognized number. I made the fatal error of answering. "Hi this is Debbie with Festival of Trees and you're not here" What? Who? I don't understand. "You signed up to help take down the festival of trees and you're not here." Oh...it was true. Weeks earlier I had signed up in church to volunteer at the Festival of Trees takedown. But where was the reminder phone call? Apparently this WAS the reminder phone call.
3. Festival of Trees Part II:
So against my better judgement I hauled down to Sandy. It was well after midnight when I arrived. I was told that my team was to load up all the stanchions on crates and forklift them back to a certain area. Can someone explain to me why they picked the single girls to be in charge of the 150 lb. stanchions? Real smart, people. I decided to be in charge of the shrink wrap but was told I was doing it wrong. I could lift about every tenth stanchion so I ended up just wandering around and occasionally pushing the fork lift. I did get some great photos though.
4. The First Presidency Christmas Devotional was very nice as always. Kim, being the only one on time, managed to charm her way into the conference center (I had the tickets) and save us seats. Thank you for being a rock star, Kim :) We took the obligatory photo on the deck with the temple in the background and then called it a night.
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