Where did it go???

Some where and some how I lost at least a week this month. In my head ,it is only about September 15ish. Not September 25th! So it came a very huge surprise yesterday ,when I figured out that I had misread the calendar and this is the LAST weekend in September, and not the 3rd weekend. I had to call my sister in Portland and tell that "no this weekend would not be a good weekend to pick up C."

Magoo is awesome! She takes each kid for a weekend to have some one on one time with them. She and C have been trying to go camping or do something fun since July, but the timing has been horrible and they haven't been able to connect for one reason or another. Finally, it looked like this weekend would work....until I realized that I was looking at last weekend on the calendar and unfortunately this weekend he was booked pretty heavily. Scouts, football, church, scout hike to Ape Cave at Mt. St. Helen's. So I felt really bad having to tell them both that it would truly be a bad time and/or they wouldonly have 5 or 6 hours to do anything fun. (But maybe Oct 9th might work.)

This oh SH*% feeling came back again tonight. I volunteered a couple months ago to help with the North County Recreation Association Auction. This is the nonprofit group that created the new baseball, softball, and soccer fields. They are very nice. This is one of the major fundraisers North County has to do in order to do the matching funds for a number of large grants they have received. I went to one of the organizational meetings tonight to find out more info about how it is organized since I'll be helping with the checkout at the end of the autcion. At the meeting I found out that the lady in charge of checkout was admitted to the hospital today and won't be around. There are a couple others who have helped in the past, but wonn't available this year. So it looks like I'm it! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I'm just supposed to be a little helpful worker bee. I'm not supposed to be in charge of it. (I know the other organizers were so impressed with how my friend Gayle (and I) did the checkout process for the Exhibit Hall auction that they asked if we could help them this year.) Gayle is super committed that weekend and can't. RATS! I guess I will be in charge of it. That's ok I thought - this thing isn't until October 4th - I've got lots of time (at least 2 -3 weeks to figure this stuff out.) Then it hit me.....

While I'm sitting in the bar at the Rose Tree (official committee meeting place of choice for most Castle Rock organizations) at this meeting, I realized I am going to be running the checkout of an auction I've never attended, the other organizers don't know what the other lady actually did to prep (They do know there are receipts - in triplicate for every item bought.) AND there's only a week until the auction. Oh dear lord!! Give me strength!!