...and then you blink

I'm not dead, I just feel that way!

I have had a wild week (a very tiring week) but first things first!

GIFTY!!

It has been such an honor to get to participate in Rubber-Sol's Gifty! goody swap. I have learned so much from visiting the journals of some of the most crafty, intelligent, and genuinely good-hearted women I have ever met. I was so excited this past weekend when I opened my mailbox to find this from the super sweet Jill:

I *adore* toile...isn't this the most lovely package!! Wait until you see the goodies inside!!

I loved the cute peony pen, and her "For a Sunday Morning" CD was divine...so soothing. The eye mask smelled heavenly! In fact, the whole shipping box (appropriately a J.Jill box - ha!) smelled of the wonderful goodness of the eye mask. Jill was so thoughtful in her ideas of a "post holiday de-stresser." She even printed a copy of the recap of the first episode of Wickedly Perfect because I missed it! Look at the notes in the margins! So awesome!

I can't wait until Gifty! 3, and I am so thankful to Leslie for coming up with such a feel-good project. She rocks!

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The root of my tiredness this week stems from the Krispy Kreme doughnut fundraiser run I made at 4:00 am (yep that's IN THE MORNING!) on Tuesday. The cheerleaders held a KK fundraiser last week to raise the remainder of the money we owe for our new uniforms, and as the sponsor I was the one to go get the dern things! Off we (me and the other sponsor) go at 4:00 to the KK that's one hour away to load 319 boxes of sugary goodness. It was downright frigid loading them into the back of the other sponsor's Yukon XL, and the only employee that would stay outside to help us was a one-arm man! bless his heart, he has a sling on the other arm because of an accident, and could not use it at all! It took us 45 minutes due to the cold and the...um...lack of employee participation. You should have seen the sea of doughnuts! They were stacked as high as the head rests the ENTIRE length of the vehicle (all middle and back seats were removed). We made it back to the school by 7:30 to commence the handing out of the doughnuts. We were finally through with the blasted things by 8:15 (school officially started at 8:00, but we had people watching our rooms), and were ready to start our very. long. day. By the time school let out at 3:00, my ass was dragging. But, oh, it gets better! I had a basketball game to attend that night! Oh what fun 2 sleep-deprived cheerleading sponsors were at the last home basketball game of the season! Ha. Ha.

I still have not caught up on my sleep, despite the fact that I crashed yesterday when I came home from school. I'm hoping that the hubs will take Chase for a boy's morning on Saturday so I can sleep in! Here's to wishful thinking!

Posted by cct4409 at January 20, 2005 01:07 AM | TrackBack