Saturday, August 16, 2008

Potlucks and Picnics

I think this is going to be the shortest post I've ever written. Mainly because...at two minutes after seven p.m., all I want to do is sleep.

Why?

Because my family reunion was this afternoon. I loved going and visiting with the very few who showed up this year (changing it from Sunday to Saturday was not the brightest move we've ever made!). But dang, it wears you out.

First you have to prepare your dish to pass, plus a dessert, get yourself ready to go. Which included getting all the paperwork since a cousin and I took over the reunion planning committee (or whatever you want to call it) last year. Actually, we volunteered to do it at last year's reunion. This was our first year dealing with it.

Then you have to load the car wtih all of your food and picnic paraphenalia and start off on the nearly hour-long drive to another city.

Next you unload everything at the hall, help with set up, eat more than you should probably have eaten, spend a fun, but exhausting, few hours visiting with everyone you can possibly vist with before loading the car back up, cleaning the hall and taking off for the hour-long drive home.

Where you have to unload the car and take care of the mess before you can sit down and wish you'd planned the reunion to start a few hours later because if you had, it would be okay to fall into bed and sleep!

But it's too early for that so I'm off to make some sense of the business meeting notes, to type them up and send them off to everyone with an email address.

Maybe that's why picnics and pot lucks make you tired.

Yawn.

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