A Treasure Found at Home

saturday was a long long day. buttons came over in the morning to check out possiblities for dresses for the phormal that evening. wild called while while i was trying to wrap up an email for work that i’d started right before buttons walked in. since i hadn’t talked to her in a while, i answered and while i had her on the phone, a work email just finished, and buttons asking for clothing suggestions, the pager went off.

meh.

i summed up the issue in the previous post, but it took all day to work out. of course, since we were working with people in another part of the world it took some organizing to get them all together. i was on im durring brunch with buttons and flow, getting up every so often to answer mobile calls from their rep in the states while we did what we could here to identify what the problem might be.

i got some sympathetic smiles from the bus boy at the cafe, though. to be honest, he migh have been flirting with me but i was already juggling too many other things to particpate longer than a thank you and a genuine smile for his kindness.

brunch and the pre-conference call organization ended at the same time. we had just enough time to get back to my place, trade cars, load up my stuff for charity, convince buttons to wear the red dress, and for flow and i to make a stop at out of the closet to drop off a couple boxes.

i dialed in to bridge the call on our way to shop for next weekend’s event. flow is in charge of all the food, and doesn’t have a car so i was helping by donating my time and space. since she would be doing the actual shopping i figured i could multi-task.

but, it turned out i had to log in to the network, which meant leaving flow at the store and finding a cafe with free internet access. things took longer than i thought they would (for me) and i had to call around for someone to take over my driving duties. the cafe closed and i got bumped out on to the bench outside as the sun started to go down and the weather turned more cold and windy, and i didn’t have a coat.

just as my batteries in my phone and laptop started to die (no electricity since the cafe had closed), ‘b’ showed up to get the car from me. i bowed out of the call, we picked up flow, and they dropped me at my house to log back in to the text portion of our conference.

thank goodness i found a back up and i say thank you again to ‘b’ for giving up his sat for community emergency duties. they went on to do more shopping, the work issue got sorted, and it was only half an hour from when i was supposed to pick buttons up for the fund raiser!

luckily, i’d already laid out what i planned to wear. i called buttons to verify that i’d be there, late, but that i was going to be able to make it. for the next hour i got a call every 10 min on average while i tried to shower, change, and put on my make up.

white dog called to tell me he’d just gotten my message and ask if everything was ok. i told him it all worked out and when i asked if he’d be at the fund raiser he said he loved to dress up but money had been tight for him. i offered to pay for his ticket if he could make me some dinner which i could eat on the way over (all i’d had all day was some yogurt, granola and fruit at brunch). a deal was made.

there were all kinds of car organization calls and plans changed and changed back. finally, ‘b’ picked me up in my car and drove himself home, i got white dog and flow (and my dinner), and headed out to oak town where we were all too flustered to read the small print on the parking signs but somehow still ended up in a great spot.

and here i am looking all carefree and calm and put together while i look over the items in the silent auction (of which i later won two). heh. i think i’m smiling cause i know i can’t hear my phone.