Getting ready for, and then manning, the Rummage and Bake Sale

Thursday, October 9, 2014
Friday, October 10, 2014


10/9

I got up this morning and went up to Rumpke for my flu shot.  My original plan was to leave home at 8, get my shot, get up to church to help set up the Rummage Sale at 9, and go from there.  Well - Change of Plans, don't you know?  Ron calls me to tell me that the nurse is only going to be there UNTIL 8, so I've got to get moving.  Dammit - the paper he brought home says different!  But, what are you gonna do?  So, I had to get up and leave here at 7, not 8, and was that ever a bite!  But I did it...I got my flu shot all taken care of, but now what am I going to do?  I'm not supposed to be up at church - no one will be there - until 9.  Well, you know me!  I went to Country Inn and had myself a bite of breakfast.  I usually don't eat 1) that early and 2) so soon after I've gotten up, but I didn't really have a choice.  How else can you kill an hour and a half or so between Bethel and Georgetown?  If I went back home, I'd go back to bed (I know me!) so that was out.  So - breakfast it was.  I chose a small breakfast, just eggs, potatoes, and toast, and I took my time eating said breakfast, so I got to the church a little after 9, so I ended up pretty much right on time for the rest of my day!
I spent the day picking up bags of clothes (yes, only ones that I could pick up - I'm NOT as dumb as I look!), emptying out said bags, while sorting and placing the clothes into the category they belonged - men, women, boy, girl and shirts, pants, etc., etc.  Oh, man, did we have the donations and was this a job and a half!
I had to leave at 12:30 for my "lunch appointment" which was, in reality, my lunch with my friend Kathy.  It was so good to see her!  We've not been able to visit with each other for quite a while, and it was great to catch up.  I sure wish we could do this more often, but with our lives now, it just isn't possible.  We had our lunch at Frisch's.  You know the choices here in Bethel for sit-down restaurants...
I had a pork tenderloin sandwich and a bowl of chili, which I figured was a much better choice than fries.  I know I'm working it off up at church, but I don't know how to claim that work on MFP!

Then it was back to work up at church, and we all kept at it til after 4, when people started heading for home.  I stayed up there helping until Ron texted me that he was on his way home, which was around 6 or so.  Yes, it was a very long day, and yes, my back was barking at me - very loudly.  It was not happy, and let me know about it!  I sat in the recliner, ate my supper (chicken noodle soup), and watched Quantum Leap as I made the Pumpkin Muffins for the Bake Sale (to hell with the cookies I was going to make!), and I stayed in the recliner to watch Bones (yay!  I remembered that it's on Thursday nights now!), then I told it who was boss, though, and played on the pute while we watched football.  Well, while I watched football until halftime.
Then I took one sleeping pill - a Tylenol PM - and went to bed.  I barely got one chapter read and I was falling asleep!


10/10

The alarm went off waaaaay too early this morning - 7:45 - because I was supposed to be back up at church to help open the Rummage and Bake Sale.  Well, it was a fight to get out of bed (what a surprise!) and I ended up a little late - I got there at quarter til 9.  Not too late, but not when I said I'd be there, either.  Phooey.  There were already people standing at the front door waiting to be let in, too!  I was let in a side door, and I quickly jumped in helping get things ready, and we opened right on time.
I mostly sat at the Bake Sale table, although I did get up and help if someone, somewhere else, needed the help.  We got so many donations that we were bagging up single things (cookies, cupcakes, etc.) and putting them out on trays and pricing them until after 11.  It was amazing!
I had to leave at 12:15 to go get myself some lunch and then go to PT.  I stopped at WalMart and got gasoline ($2.97!!), then went to Longhorn for that almost-perfect salad, to which I added an order of corn fritters (for some reason, they just sounded good (and they were!) today), although, in the end, I only had time to eat about half of the salad.  I had to go in the bathroom and change into the clothes I brought for PT, then go and settle my bill and all the 'leaving' stuff that happens, so I could get to PT on time.  Oh, well, at least I know I'll have a good lunch tomorrow while sitting at the Rummage and Bake Sale, right?
PT was pure misery today.  My back, feet, ankles, and calves all hurt today and the hurt didn't let up at all.  Luckily, she understood about how I 'abused' my back yesterday - that it's not a normal thing - and took it easy on me, and also let me go early.  She did give me one more new exercise, and she is also letting me skip a week before coming back, making it every two weeks now instead of every week.  Hooray!
I stopped at Walgreens on the way back to pick up some prescriptions and, of course, picked up some other things - Ron's fish oil pills, for one - and spent too much money.  Why is that so easy to do?  Super Big Sigh.

I got back up to church right before the Sale is supposed to close for the day, but there were still people in there, so we didn't close for almost an hour.  We did very, very well for this one day.  We were pretty satisfied with the amount of both clothes and books (and other things) that we saw walking out the door (in bags, paid for, smartasses.).  We had so much donated this time, we were worried that what we sold wouldn't even make a dent, but we saw plenty of dents!  We are pleased and grateful for that.

Ron and Corgan got home not long after I did, and we all went down to WalMart to do the grocery shopping.  There's no other time to do it this weekend!  Ron wasn't real happy about it, but he went.  I bought the stuff for me and Corgan to make Rice Krispie Treats for the Bake Sale tomorrow, but I don't think that will take very long, and we'll get it done.  We were supposed to do it right after supper, but you know how that goes.
We had supper when we got home.  Corgan had some soup, and Ron and I had cheese weenies.  We all had bake sale goodies that I had brought home.

Tomorrow should be an interesting day.  I'll be up at the church, Ron wants to work on my car, and Corgan wants to practice his recorder.  I'll also have to come up with supper for everyone, too, but it will all work out.  It always does, somehow.