struggling with disappointment

So last night was the second of our two movie night fundraisers. We rented out a local movie theatre, the Princess, and showed the movie Shooting Dogs. This is a terrific movie about the first few days of the Rwandan Genocide - well done and very challenging. See it if you have the chance! Anyway, we were expecting quite a few people. We had been advertising and telling lots of people about it and a lot of people had said they would come. We worked hard to put it together and then the turnout was incredibly disappointing. We covered the cost of renting out the theatre, but didn't make very much more than that. I am struggling not to get discouraged. People who came enjoyed the movie, learned stuff and showed us a lot of support. The people at the theatre were great and helped us out a lot. We had fun as a team hanging out and working together. So there is a lot of good that came from it. I guess with the success of the dinner and auction over the weekend we were looking forward to another successful fundraiser and that didn't happen. On the happy side, we did find out that the overall cost of the trip is lower than we first thought so the pressure of this less than stellar fundraiser isn't so bad.

Random Ramblings of the Insane

Ok, my life has been so hectic of late that I have had no time to even check my email let alone blog on a regular basis. I know that I am not the only busy one so I will not complain too much, but suffice to say I am only home to sleep these days, and even then not for very long. So, to catch you up on some of the happenings, here are some random snipits of my life, in no particular order...

* While walking to work one morning the strap of my purse broke. I walked the rest of the way swinging the purse by one end. I got a lot of weird looks and it was an interesting way to start the day.

* We had a dinner and silent auction to fundraise for what I now refer to as The Trip. It was stressful and crazy but it was a great success so all is well.

* One morning at my office job it was just me and the HR manager person and we had 10 interviews and the server for the testing we use was down and it was insane. I was like the chicken with no head.

* Sunday I was up very late getting organized for the movie fundraiser that we had monday night. I did this after a very busy, not sleep filled weekend. My shift on monday at Zehrs started at noon and I woke up at 11:56. Not Good.

* I spent friday night at Pam's. She and her roommate are cat sitting two cats in addition to their own two cats. I did not sleep much because three cats took turns attacking my feet, jumping on my head and knocking things off desks and dressers.

* On a less crazy note I went to Pam's cottage for her birthday the weekend of the 28th. There were 15 of us and it was good fun! Some of us girls went for a walk along the lake and it was nice to be outside! Fun Times.

Now you are all caught up! :)

I'm not dead yet....

So one of the highlights of my weeks was the small group that I lead for the youth at WMB. We have five kids who have been coming out regularily and it is lots of fun. Our planned "lesson" didn't really go as planned but I had fun anyway because two guys, brothers, spent half the time quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Fun times!

Tonight I helped with a youth event for Grace MB. We hid in the mall and the youth had to try to find us. Only one group found us so basically I shopped for two hours. I found a great hat that actually looks good on me. I am not a hat person so this is a big deal. Afterwards we "leaders" went and hung out. Andrea and Jen ditched me which is fine, but that meant that it was me and eight married people. So it was the night of the ninth wheel, but we played cranium and my team won. It was fun:)

Laura had a little lamb...

and everywhere that Laura went, her cat was sure to go. I have this nursery rhyme in my head because my cat has been following on my heals the past couple days. In the morning I tend to go up and down the stairs several times because there is always something else that I need that I left in my room. My cat follows me on every one of these trips. She follows me when I do laundry, when I wash dishes she watches me. She is always where I am. Sometimes this is cute. I walk around the house just to see how long she'll follow me. Other times this is extremely annoying, like when I trip on her on the stairs or when she decides that she absoluetly must sit on my book. She even tried to follow me out the door the other day. Silly muffin!