Ok...so...I have learned over the years that I am not a good organizer of large activities. I should always be a co-rep and never the primary. I procrastinate. I do not like to ask for things. I do not like to pester people. I prefer e-mail to the phone. And did I say---I procrastinate?
Next week I am the dedicated organizer of Field Day at the school. I am a member of the PTA board and took the position thinking...no problem...one event and it is at the end of the year. By then, I will be used to Lee being gone and it will be fine.
There are nearly 1200 kids at the school. The Coach has organized the activity stations (thank God)--but I am in charge of the water table, first aid station, time-out area, and a Freeze-ice for each child as they finish their activity. I have $200 PTA dollars and I need to get my own volunteers to help. So far, I have lists for up to 60 volunteers. How many do I have......8. I am running this thing next Mon, Tues and Wed in two sessions a day. I have to keep the Popsicles frozen so Publix has them special for me in a big deep freeze. So 20 minutes before the end of each session I have to pick them up....bring them over....and get the tops cut off for the kids to eat---while frozen.
Tomorrow is Thursday. I guess I need to start making calls for volunteers. I HATE the phone. I really do. I need posters..a.nd 1500 water cups and lots of ice and 10 pairs of scissors and trash cans. I need these things to happen.
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On a lighter note. Lee is heading home in about one week. It is like an arranged marriage----like I have never seen him in all the 14 years we have been together. It is like meeting him for the first time, except I know what whiskey he wants me to buy. The kids do not know the exact day and I don't really yet either. But we are excited.
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Hazel got into the Magnet Program of her first choice and will be at Julia Landon College Prep next year (how can you college prep in 6th grade...more like Puberty Prep...101---but for gifted kids and I am sure puberty is very different if you are gifted????) --she is thrilled and I am trying trying to figure out the daily transportation arrangements because this school is downtown. It starts at 7:30 am and gets out at 2:30 (what kind of hours are those for a teenager?)
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Liam will also be going to a new school. It is a good year for change. He spent the day at Hendricks Day School today. He had a really good day. I liked what I saw. He was also excepted and it looks like he will get a McKay Scholarship so we won't be living on the streets--unless gas prices go back up that is.
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I had a work related dinner tonight --a pharmaceutical company event. The food was good but trying to come up with ways to pike holes in the statistics and trials etc was way more fun. I miss statistics and research and common sense with those topics. I would have liked being a physician I think. Not that they do much of what I was doing---but they should. they should read more and more to help make treatment decisions. I would. And I would always remove the spleen of my lymphoma patients----I would do that.
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