Friendzy Friday

It's been a few days without a post, but I'm alive, and everyone around here knows it. Between being sick and too busy to be sick, I haven't blogged in a couple days. For shame! I got on a Z-pack antibiotic and went from a fever and a gurgly cough to no fever and a persistent hacking-up-a-lung-until-you-gag-and-almost-pass-out-cough. I think I'd like to go back to my near-pneumonia please. The little prescription capsules I was so excited about that are supposed to suppress coughing don't seem to be working. Bummer, if it doesn't clear up by Monday I have to go back for chest xrays. Ugh.

Last night was our biggie annual craft event at church. One ward approached us to see if we'd like to combine, and I was like, "uh, yeah!" and then about 5 seconds later I suggested we invite the other ward that we share the building with so it would be a 3 ward event. This was waaaay back in June, and since I just wasn't feeling the love for craft ideas this year, I proposed the idea that if the other wards came up with the majority of the crafts (they have the better craft gurus) I would coordinate and handle the actual event. It turned out GREAT! I really enjoyed the collaborative effort and it's always a thrill to have suggestions that are strokes of brilliance and will go into my little bag of tricks. In one meeting a gal thought it would be nice if we could send photos via email of all the crafts rather than relying on the lobby display since it can be challenging to get there and get signed up for some people. So, thanks to the Bloggers in the family that got me hooked, Mike and I went up and took photos and set up a blog for the 3 wards to view the craft items. If you want to see it, I think you can click on my profile and go to Friendzy Friday.

I have to say, I loved the look on the two older men's faces who came with their wives to help us move the 35 tables and 120 chairs up against the wall that the youth group set out for us after their activity the night before. They saw the hall full of tables everywhere and I think they were imagining us 3 women taking forever to decide how to arrange all these tables, when voila! I whip out my blueprint diagram of the cultural hall with little rectangles and circles showing where the tables would be set up, how many chairs at each, which ones didn't have chairs at all. The tables shaded in blue were the ones that needed table coverings, and everything was labeled so we knew which supplies would go to which table. It was a work of art I tell you. One dude snatched it out of my hands and off to work he went while we did the ardous task of covering the tables. We were finished in 1 hour setting up the whole thing.

The evening went off seamlessly and I only had to run out the doors 3 or 4 times to have asthmatic coughing fits in the parking lot. And I only had to run to the bathroom every hour on the hour after drinking what had to be the equivalent of 3 gallons of liquid during the day trying to keep from coughing. Since half of that was Diet Coke, it was no wonder I had plenty of energy for Friendzy Friday!!!