So today has been nuts. I have to get a certain amount done or I'm hosed, so this morning I woke Missy up early and got Turbo out of bed and dressed quickly and immediately left the house to run errands. It was about 8:30am when we left.
I got to the copy place to get my fliers for the neighborhood watch copied and cut out and found that they didn't open until 9am.
This really sucks because last night I wanted to go to the self serve 24 hour copy place and get the fliers done so that I could start putting them out in the wee hours of the morning... you know, after exercising and before Goober got up for school. But low and behold the place had closed down and the other self serve one is in another store that locks up after they are done.... what is the point of having a self serve copy place if people can't access it at any time? They need to totally put one in a 24 hr service station or something, cause seriously this city is how big and RIGBY has a self serve 24 hr copy place....
Then I realized the bank didn't open until 9 too. Ugh. So I headed to the DI to empty the back of my van, because I've had stuff in there For-ev-er (said like the kid on Sandlot). Thank goodness they were open, and then by the time I got back to the other places they were open too.
I then spent all morning taping fliers to people's front doors and mailboxes. It was nice weather this morning, did I mention that? Only a few sprinkles here and there, and they were kinda Oregon-eque... you know misty, so not a problem. I headed back to the house about noonish because Goobers last day of school was a half day and we needed lunch anyhow, then we headed back out....
'Cept this time it was raining.... had I realized it would rain I wouldn't have stuck fliers on mailboxes, I would have gone back and put them on front doors but I was wet and tired and I still had more houses to do!!!
This little project of mine took from 9am this morning until 2:30pm to complete... at a certain point we had to go back to the house and get the van because the kids were cold and becoming wet in spite of the Wike and the Umbrella...
Needless to say, my kids weren't terribly happy about it all.
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Update: After all of that, I found out that the time of the meeting was not on the fliers....
4 comments:
You poor thing! Sometimes the momentum just won't swing your way ... but that doesn't mean that the act of trying is useless! You are working for a good cause - keep it up!
Oh CRAP. I'm so sorry that the time isn't on the fliers! That sucks so much, Apes! Argh!!
Good for you for being proactive in your neighborhood! I hope you can spread the word of the time without too much effort!
I admire you for "being the change you wish to see in the world " (paraphrase). Our communities need more people like you who give a darned!
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