When is enough enough?? I'm talking about the CCC I'm on. The Community Center board and Miss Personality. We are working on our annual Ladies Night Out. It's a night of shopping, wine tasting, and a great meal. Well last year i sold my purses at it, had a great time. Well this year since I'm on the 'board' I'll be helping putting it together. I said I'd take care of getting all the displayers of which I've been working on.
I didn't make Sunday nights meeting b/c of other things going on (harvest='s no DH, my parents were here, etc) So i told one of the ladies i have a group of displayers and it's all looking good. Yesterday i get a message from Miss Personality that she too has a list of people. LOVELY!! She had to remind me that there was a meeting Sunday night too!! I should have reminded her about the previous meeting that she wasn't at. But i digress.
We talk and sort it all out who's who'. I just got home now to another message saying that she has another lady that might be coming. Well this other lady sells jewelry and purses! I told her i don't think that's very fair b/c i sell the same thing she does and i was trying to stay away from doubling up. She said 'Rachel, that's not very fair. She's sold lots of cookbooks for us and I don't' think we can tell her she can't come' I said 'oh really.....' Why the heck was she even asked. So i just said 'OK!?'
All while I'm thinking, do i need to continue to deal with this crap. I get nothing but grief from her and I've had it. I have so much going on in my life that maybe i don't need to do this community center stuff any more. Seems all it does is bring me grief. But if i stop doing it what about my Zumba that i have going and going over VERY WELL!!! Or the circuits that we are doing on Thursday nights, or the number of memberships I've gotten. Who looses more, them or me?? Am I playing right in to her hands if i say I'm done!? I've just had it with one person and I'm not sure if it's worth me getting all worked up and tense about every time i hear her voice!
She's very snarky when she does talk down to me and yeah, when is enough enough? I'd love to tell her off. Would i ever.
Talk some sense in to me one way or the other.....now that I've vented I NEED to get working on my MOPS presentation for TOMORROW!!

I Survived

And it's nothing short of a miracle, I made it thru the garage sale. Let me tell you, people REALLY need to get rid of stuff rather then pawn it off. We allowed 'donations' of items and then we, the community center, would get the proceeds. What a MESS!! I didn't price any of it and bless the ladies that did b/c I'm pretty darn sure I would have handed people a bag and said fill it for $5.

Yesterday I got there @ 1 to price things. Instead 2 of the men were already putting tables out, which was awesome. That meant I got to place them the way I WANTED!! Score for Rachel! But then that meant we all, 4 of us, had to haul ALL THE LOOT from the weight room to the gym. I tell ya what I've NEVER seen so much stuff. Tons of baby thru adult clothes and lots of just plain junk. I meant to take my camera but forgot it. We had 7 8 ft tables and that didn't fit 1/2 the stuff. We could have filled the entire gym with just donated stuff.

So i got there at 1 and didn't get home till 745PM!! But not with out some drama. Miss Personality came flying in to the gym with her claws OUT!! She was hotter then hot b/c Betty (volunteer) had called her to see if you could come help. Well at the last meeting I said i had the workers all worked out. I mean really, she says that night at the meeting in a VERY snotty tone: 'So i suppose you expect us to work at this?? What about that? How you going to handle THAT?' At which i replied 'oh don't worry about it i have it covered'. I mean really, do think I'm going to ask her help after that kind of question? I'd run the entire thing in 4ft heals before I'd ask HER to help! So yeah, she comes barreling in there yesterday saying 'Do you not remember what you told us at the last meeting that you didn't NEED help??' I was literally caught off guard!! Betty goes over and says 'well we didn't know there was going to be this much stuff." I said too yeah, there is just tons and bless your souls for pricing this all. ( i found out later she did VERY little in that part too) but don't worry about it, i think will be just fine. Then Betty goes over to hug her and she screams 'don't hug me I've just had a biopsy of my shoulder and it hurts' Betty told her to go home and rest and i gladly seconded that.

I feel quite bad for her b/c she's mad at the world. Everything is poor me. She comes from a very large family so both her parents are deceased. She hasn't done much, if anything, to change her quality of life and I just really feel bad she's so angry. I want to so tell her this but yeah, what good would it do. There would probably be a brawl on the floor of her and me. She NEVER smiles and complains ALL the time. Really, who wants to hang around someone like that!? She did come today and she went right over to a table and started flappin her jaws NON STOP and i was getting glares. I thought come on really!? you really think people want to hear you complain about me?! I busted my arse to make everything go and you're going to complain. WOW!!

At any rate the sale itself went good. I was disappointed that some of the people that rented tables, didn't all show. I did sell my double stroller so that means i can get a sit'n'stand! I made about $225 and giving what I had, I was darn happy with.

The donation table looked like nothing even left. And people bought like crazy. We sent most of it to shelters, goodwill, etc and MOST of it went right to the dumpster. I really hope people don't come looking in the dumpster and see there stuff in it. Some of the clothes for babies was so nasty i wouldn't let me cats use it for bedding. I just can't believe some people think they are doing us a favor by what they donated. GROSS i couldn't wait to shower after touching some of it. And shoes?? please just throw them away, unless there little kids. and PLEASE don't bring us your 1x sweater with a BIG ol stain that looks like a ketch up bottle exploded.

All in all I'd say it was a success. People asked if we'd be doing it again and I said not with me in charge. I'm DONE and remind me of this the next time I say I'm going to do a fundraiser for the community center. These women are not who you want to mess around with.

Tonight I'm not cooking!! We actually are going out with DH's family for the March/April b-days which by the way, mine is in THREE DAYS!! Got my presents bought?? If you need my address, let me know (LOL) i got one today from my sister, a very colorful tray and some nice dish rags. I was saying I wanted a tray b/c I'm sick of making 101 trips from the counter to the table! This is perfect!!

How many of you had a garage sale? How many like to garage sale? What's the best bargain you've gotten?? Actually I'll do a 'poll'. Yeah sounds like a good idea. I think I'm going to do a give away!! Maybe a mini flat wallet?? Watch for details!!

Oh lets see....

I've added pictures!!!

It's a beautiful day in Iowa. Almost 55 outside and the snow is melting oh so FAST!! To bad it looks like we're in for another active weather pattern. The first snow/rain is for Friday although that's forecasted to go more south of us. The next one, Monday evening/Tuesday. That one they are still watching. Man I'm SO ready to bid farewell to ol' man winter and HELLOOOO spring.

Waiting for C'man to wake up so we can go outside. I went and woke him up but he just grabbed his cozy blanket and rolled over. He is SO not a morning person and once he falls asleep for his nap, he's hard to wake up. Did I mention that he has his binky back too?? About 2 months ago we flushed one down the toilet. I told him if I find a binky downstairs it's going down the toilet. Well you know what happened. He tried to reach in and grab it after HE flushed it but the whirl was to fast and down it went. He cried and cried and actually I almost could have too. He loves his binkies. He's so cute with it too. So a couple weeks ago I NEEDED him to take a nap and I felt the only way i was going to accomplish that was to give him another one of his favorite binkies. He had 2 after the one we flushed but one i snipped the end of, 'it boke' he kept saying, and the other was no better then the snipped one. He wasn't going to sleep well at night either. I figured the heck with it. We were gone that weekend for my SIL's baby shower and being away from home, not to mention the ride HOME on AWFUL roads, I have him a binky. You should have seen his reaction when I pulled out 'the pink binky'. It's more like magenta, but none the less he calls it his pink binky. He was ELATED!

So now the arrangement is that it HAS to stay in his bed. He knows I'm not messing around any more since we flushed one down. He doesn't walk around all day with it, only at night. We figure that when it's time for Addie to bid farewell then he will too. BUT he also knows that he can't go to school if he still has a binky and you know what.....he could have a lot worse. He could still be on a bottle, suck his thumb, not be anywhere near being potty trained, so i just say the heck with it let him have the binky. If it makes my life easier and he goes to bed 100% better, then screw it. Speaking of going to bed, the other thing that helped was I plugged in a nightlight that only goes on if it's dark. He loves that, I love it even more.

At any rate, i have pictures i need to post of us giving the cows hay. On Sunday we all four rode in the tractor to feed the cows. It was fun. Do I have any readers out there that aren't the least bit familiar with 'farm life' (feeding the cows hay, tractors, etc) I'm curious. Don't want to share anything if it's of no interest to anyone.

Furthermore....I need more comments:) BFF-E thanks a million but where's everyone else?? Oh and tell me your remedies again for off setting a headache the day after some drinking. I'm refraining from calling it a hangover b/c i don't think that's really possible after only 3-5 mixed drinks. Is it?? our community center has our St Patricks Day Dinner and Dance Saturday Night. I'm so excited. Lots of DH's classmates and their wives are coming and we have ourselves a babysitter that we won't have to rush home by 930-10.

Thanks everyone!! do drop me a note, or 2, or 3, or 4.....

Only me....

I'm not sure I should even be telling you all this, but b/c it's a true 'Rachel moment' and to let you all know I'm human and do dumb things I shall share. Tonight was circuit training. There was only 3 of us there, thank GOODNESS! We have a new routine in place and this was the 2nd time I've done it. I asked what this one thing was called, sorry can't remember what it is, but you lay on your tummy on a ball. Then with your hands in front of you you roll the ball up your chest, ending up on your knees and your butt in the air. Well....do you see where this is going.....I tried it and went right on over the ball!!! I have such a carpet burn on my chin and my neck was pushed down to my stomach I swear. I was so fricken embarrassed and the other ladies were like oh my gosh, are you OK?? I was like yeah just let me get this piece of gravel out of my mouth that i picked up. I looked in the mirror and this is what I saw:

Now i have this fear that I'll get staph in it and oh dear me what a mess that would be. Any one have any suggestions what i should do with it? Leave it alone? Cover it up (my mother would be freaking out right now making me put a band aide on it) For those that don't know me personally I had MRSA in Oct of 06 and I haven't been able to be 'free' of it for sometime. Actually gave up even doing the nasal swabs b/c I couldn't get back 2 'negatives' So anyway you can see then why this is a big deal.

BUT you can also laugh, I sure as heck am. Truly this could only happen to me. I could really tell ya'll some stories and i think BFF E could share some good ones too, but will pass on those. Instead go ahead and chuckle:) Why I'm smiling in this picture? I guess to show the humor in it...Boy, i look kind of dopey don't I. Not sure what that is all about...got to love those hold the camera and take a picture. The other pictures I took you could see right up my nose LOL

And One and Two....

Finally I have some pics of where I work out. (bet you couldn't wait LOL) Sorry none of me actually working out. That would mean someone would have to take them and I don't think that'd work, for fear they too may end up on this blog. WHICH means for so many that don't know I even blog, they'll want to read this. Something about my own family and distant acquaintances reading this, bothers me!? What if I talk about someone that reads this? Or I'm always worried I'll offend someone!? (i know, imagine that!!) At any rate so I've said before the community center is an old school. As I took these pictures I was like, 'wow check out this scenary' I really just love admiring the surroundings around me and here's another place that for a moment took my breath away. ok so the pictures don't do that sentence justice. Next time i'll take some from the 3rd floor of the school!! I took these last Sunday when my friend 'K' and I went to work out. I think she thought I was a little crazy so I didn't want to take to many, oh and I didn't mention it was freakin FREEZING, I will get some of the outside.

The view when you walk in Gotta love those balls

The view as you're leaving

Other news, I met another SAHM yesterday and her 4 year old son. C and him had a blast and I really enjoyed my time with 'Julie'. She used to work at my dentist office before being a SAHM and that's how I know her. There was some 'bond' b/w us that I had no idea was till I learned she had been thru (one) IVF. Infertility once again strikes another! We ran in to one another almost TWO years ago in Payless shoes. I gave her my business card and we conversed time to time via email (me being the slow one to email her back) This past August we ran into one another @ Olive Garden and guess what!!!?? she was VERY preggos!! No IVF this time, another miracle that came to them in a different manner. We did have a great time yesterday with our boys. Miss A was great and her other little 6 month old boy, stayed with his G'parents. The best part of all of this??? they are trying to move CLOSER to my neck of the woods!! At any rate J does know about my blog and I've asked her too to pop in once and awhile and leave a message. Hopefully we here from the lovely 'J'

My parents were supposed to come this afternoon and take us out for lunch as well as drop of things i'd left at there house. They got about 15 min from home and the roads were horrible. It's so windy here again and down right frigid. -6 tonight!! So they turned around. I told them once they reached one of the towns it'd get better. Seems this one town is the breaking point for either better or worse roads. They'll try again tomorrow.

Tonight is a MOPS & POPS supper. (mothers of preschoolers and now pops) I'm not sure will go. I have a sitter lined up but we have to bring the kids to her house (her mom and dad will be helping) and I'm not sure I want to take them out in this weather nor do I want to go out. Need to call MIL and see if she'll watch them!?

Church tomorrow, I play. Same ol' same ol'

Oh and DH bought closet stuff yesterday and actually started working on it. Suppose you want to see pics of that? You might see DH hanging from a hanger. I think i'll entertain kids while he works!

What is everyone else doing this weekend? anything fun? boring?