Monday, August 09, 2004
Saturday was insane but SO cool!
I got up at 6am on Saturday, in order to turn up for duty at 7. We did some little tasks, and I took some pics, and in the end I was assigned to guard the perimeter and fend off all but the "aged and infirm" from the Lamar location of the Colorado Welcome Center.
As soon as the Genuine Celebrities showed up, so did the Genuine Security Types, so I homed in on the real goings on. I'm happy to say I got LOTS of great pics (for our upcoming Prowers County Dems website), and also got to shake hands with the one and only John Kerry!
After it was over, Damaris and the kiddos and a few other stalwarts and I helped do the really low-ranked task of cleaning up. :/ After grabbing a few pizzas, we went home for some well-deserved rest.
I had put in quite a few extra foot hours, and after I spent some time trying to catch up to my email and LJ, I gave in to the urge to soak in a really hot bath for a while. Unfortunately, this was a cue to the universe to unleash another round of Seriously Bad Luck.
My bath of nice HOT water was about half full when Caro came bursting into the bathroom yelling, "Susan, Nigel's HURT!!"
Like any old war horse, I lept forth to answer the call.
Probably one day Nigel will get over the shock of inadvertently seeing me rise from the waves, not so much like Venus, but more like Shamu at Sea World. Except I didn't get even a shred of dead fish bits for my trouble....
Nigel had been trying to fix a broken belt on the riding lawn mower, and a stabilizing bar on the mower deck sprang back to smack him between two fingers on his right hand. So after I (quickly wrapped in a handy bathrobe) wrapped his hand up in a towel, Damaris drove him off to the ER.
It didn't really stop me from whining about how much my feet hurt, but I did it a lot more quietly....
Seriously, I was really really really really tired from all the stuff we'd been doing. But I did manage to stay alert enough to monitor the cable news and record all the coverage of the Kerry/Edwards visits that day, some of which DID feature (briefly) my grandkids.
I wouldn't want to do it more than once a decade or so, but WHAT a Saturday!
As soon as the Genuine Celebrities showed up, so did the Genuine Security Types, so I homed in on the real goings on. I'm happy to say I got LOTS of great pics (for our upcoming Prowers County Dems website), and also got to shake hands with the one and only John Kerry!
After it was over, Damaris and the kiddos and a few other stalwarts and I helped do the really low-ranked task of cleaning up. :/ After grabbing a few pizzas, we went home for some well-deserved rest.
I had put in quite a few extra foot hours, and after I spent some time trying to catch up to my email and LJ, I gave in to the urge to soak in a really hot bath for a while. Unfortunately, this was a cue to the universe to unleash another round of Seriously Bad Luck.
My bath of nice HOT water was about half full when Caro came bursting into the bathroom yelling, "Susan, Nigel's HURT!!"
Like any old war horse, I lept forth to answer the call.
Probably one day Nigel will get over the shock of inadvertently seeing me rise from the waves, not so much like Venus, but more like Shamu at Sea World. Except I didn't get even a shred of dead fish bits for my trouble....
Nigel had been trying to fix a broken belt on the riding lawn mower, and a stabilizing bar on the mower deck sprang back to smack him between two fingers on his right hand. So after I (quickly wrapped in a handy bathrobe) wrapped his hand up in a towel, Damaris drove him off to the ER.
It didn't really stop me from whining about how much my feet hurt, but I did it a lot more quietly....
Seriously, I was really really really really tired from all the stuff we'd been doing. But I did manage to stay alert enough to monitor the cable news and record all the coverage of the Kerry/Edwards visits that day, some of which DID feature (briefly) my grandkids.
I wouldn't want to do it more than once a decade or so, but WHAT a Saturday!
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