The Neon Nurse's Charting

Whew! When I said Wednesday wasn't looking too good for email catch-up, I WAS RIGHT!

Caro had an early meeting, so I had to get up at 6am to do the getting the boy off to school thing. Sat down at the computer and found out, YIKES! EBay is having a special price listing day TODAY!

So that shot Wednesday all to hell.

I was able to switch most things on my to-do list over to Thursday, but I did have to go to town for Mike's library day, and I had also promised to print out and put up a few flyers because Governatorial Candidate Bill Ritter was coming to town Thursday morning. After running those errands, I glued myself back down to the computer chair. Ended the day with what is probably a personal best for one day of listings, 228! We have already sold a few things and gotten a few bids, which is good, because Souvenir needs to have a visit to good old Dr. Eaton RealSoonNow.

Got up early again today so I could attend the Ritter speech and help add to the support numbers. Ran into a spot of trouble when I realized that after I printed up the flyers, I threw the email AWAY, so now I didn't have the details anymore. Dur!

Happily, I had saved a phone message with the time, so was half-way there. I thought about stopping at one of the grocery stores where I had put up a flyer, but succumbed to Lamar Syndrome, which means I figured I would see the special painted tour bus and the crowd and know from that where I should be.

So I parked at Lamar Community College and...saw nothing. While I stood there on the sidewalk thinking, here came Eddie Hall, a candidate for County Commissioner. "Hey, Eddie, where's the meeting?" I called happily.

"Dunno. I was going to follow you."

So we BOTH stood there on the sidewalk, trying to jog each other's memory, when a car pulled up. The lady in it asked where the MumbleSomething Hall was. She was with the Ritter campaign...and didn't know where to go. Thought she could ask/follow us....

So all three of us were pondering what to do next, when here came Russ Baldwin from KVAY to cover the speech. We looked hopeful and asked him where HE thought it was...and again, he was expecting to join our little band and come along to the coffee and sweet rolls and politickin'.

After one false start, we found it. It was NOT in the big Lecture Hall, but there WAS a janitorial staff lady working that area, who DID know the Sekrit Location and kindly revealed it to us! "OH," we all said when we finally arrived. "Why did they not SAY it was in the room where the college bookstore used to be???"

It had started to rain a little as we finally went into the right building. Bill Ritter deliberately did NOT tell a joke about bringing the rain with him, because when he had done that in Trinidad a few weeks past, lightning immediately hit the building. He learns quick, our Mr. Ritter.

By the time the meeting was over, a very damp failed-blizzard was pouring down from the sky. (We have over 2 inches so far, which is about 1/6 of our normal precip for the YEAR.) I got very very wet going back to my car, and probably looked pretty weird drying my face and hair with Kleenex. I was very glad to get home to my warm house and eat my warm lunch and read my warm email. But just as I was getting ready to get to work filling orders--THE POWER WENT OUT!

So I was forced to go take a nap.

We got powered back up again about two hours after the folks in town. Not that I was bitter. Or cold again. And now that we are finally all fed, and the sudden leaks have been dealt with, and I am all chipper from my nap, I can MAYBE get a LITTLE emailing and replying done!