Marathon Fair Week
Today is Tuesday and I'm spending the day sitting on the couch catching up on the Olympics that I have taped. Honestly, I think I have over 20 hours of taped Olympics to go through. Yikes. I'll be skipping a lot though I'm sure, because it's unfortunate that I don't really care about the basketball or soccer, or field hockey for that matter. I just don't.
You might ask why I have so many, many hours of Olympics taped? Well, that would be because it was the fair last week, and I spent almost everyday, all day, out at the fair. Just so you know folks, I wasn't looking at the hogs, I was working there.
The fair started to charge for parking again this year and they needed someone to run the lots, so as a fundraiser, the drill team took that on. It was five 14 hour days out at the fair. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the drill team wasn't in charge but because I was the contact person, I was sort of "on call" to be used if needed. Tuesday was fine, but Wednesday, I was needed. I went to work the lots most of the night. And while I didn't work the lots on Tuesday, I had to work on the message center which is a fundraiser for Jr. Miss. Just a lot of the fair.
This is me, on my marathon sit in the message center by myself, waiting for someone (someone!) to need a message given. Luckily I had lots of writing to do, and a good book to read, because truly I was bored out of my mind.
I thought a lot of doing a SPT of me out doing the parking lots but it was over 100^, getting up all the way to 112^ on Saturday. I was dirty, sweaty, tired, and honestly, by Saturday night, pretty dang cranky. But we made it through! It was a pretty good fundraiser for us which allows us to not have to do any other fundraiser during the year. That will be nice. I'm glad it's over though, as I'm tired of being hot, sweaty, tired and cranky. And of course, this week, the week after the fair, it is very cool, bordering on cold. Wouldn't you know it. Best kept secrets of the fair: the new 4-H building which is air conditioned and has great bathrooms in it, and being able to buy the exhibitor passes when you have something in the fair, for really, really cheap. Well worth the effort of putting something in the fair. Do it people.
