Opening Social for 800

Today was our Stake Opening Social. Traditionally, this might have been an event I "skipped" to do other necessary Saturday activities. The funny thing is that when you're the Stake Activities Co-Chair, attendance is required. With attendance comes the inevitable pre-social preparation. After weeks of making posters & flyers, sending e-mails, and making food/activity arrangements for 600, I thought I was more than prepared for our "little" BBQ. Nothing can humble a person more quickly than having lines of almost 800 hungry people depending upon you for sustanance.

Needless to say, it has been a long day. 700 buns, 800 ice cream sandwiches, and 6 hours of socialing & I'm exhausted. A huge thanks to my faithful friends--Jerilyn, Melissa, and Poncho for helping. They were so amazing! There are two types of people in the world--the people who volunteer to help you (when they really don't have to) and the shmos sitting on their behinds while I lug full water coolers (bigger than me) across the parking lot. I'm glad my friends aren't shmos--otherwise I'd still be trying to cover tables and distribute hotdogs. . . .I'm keeping my day job.

Opening Socialite

Another successful stake activity. Our opening social was full of barbershop quartet goodness, cheesecake, and some funny characters! This is Ryan--my stake activities co-chair. Honestly, the perfect person to work with. He's dependable, hard-working, and he doesn't annoy me. It's great!
Did someone slip something into the punch?

Watch Out Little Girl Scout

If things don't work out in the floral industry, I've decided to take up a career in sales. Remember how I've dedicated myself to being the best damned Stake Activities Co-chair in the history of Co-chairs? Well, late last Thursday night when one of the Stake Presidency asked me to make arrangements for our Stake Leadership Training on Sunday, I was more than happy to accomodate. I scurried around like a crazy person and ordered cookies, etc. for 400 people. No problem. . . .almost. I show up at the designated location with my goodies and begin unloading. It is only then that I notice several men walking into the building with what appears to be a large amount of milk. I turn to one and ask what they're doing. He matter-of-factly tells me that they are bringing in the refreshments for the sTake tRaining meeting. I nearly fell over. Yep--goodies for the evening were double booked. Now, I had ordered 40 dozen cookies from Costco. That's 480 morsels. The high-councilor had ordered 100 dozen cookies. . .no exaggeration (what was he thinking?) That's 1200 cookies. Add them up and you get 1 butt load of baked goods. Needless to say, the 300 people that showed up for refreshments after the training each left with a full gallon of milk and their scripture totes full of cookies.

I am now the proud owner of 10 boxes of Costco cookies. . .thus my future in sales. After work today, I'm going down to the corner, putting on a green vest, and selling my goodies from the trunk of my Volkswagon. Watch out little girlscouts. There's a new girl on the corner and she means business!

p.s. Lori called me in a state of affairs this afternoon. The actual Girl Scouts were selling cookies in her neighborhood. I ordered a few for taste comparisons. . .too bad Kimmy and I are on a sugar freeze.