omgthatwasthebusiest3weeksever

I didn't realize until i started telling my mother-in-law what had been happening, but I have had a lot of interesting stuff going on lately.
On the 5th, work had an open house where we let people from the community come in a schmooze and we had little stations set up that explained what we do and we had extravagant food and wine and we had little donation jars set up everywhere, and I actually surprised the hell out of myself. If, you don't know this, I don't know where the hell you've been, but I'm as shy as the day is long, and even more introverted. So, at open house it was my job, along with another CM to stand in her office and tell those who came in what it was that we did.... and I did it.... Nicely and without hesitation. It was fun! I wanted to hide in a corner for the next 2 days, but the open house was what counted, and I handled it well :)

At said open house, magic city chorus mens and women's choirs performed and managed to get about the highest compliment any musican can get from me... closed eyes and a huge smile. They were very good, especially considering a. they do no auditions, screenings, etc. and b. the girls have been together only about 2 months now. I talked to the director at another work related christmas function and he's about as sweet as he can be, and he knows my old choir director from high school, which means he knows his shit as much as it seemed like based on their performance. So... I may end up singing for them... It kind of depends on my schedule.

The next week we had our board party at which I did manage to force myself to have a couple of conversations, but I did not do as swimmingly as at the open house. The board party was fun though because of great food and smiling faces (and that's where I talked to the aforementioned choral director). We have an amazing group of people as board members and staff... it's such a great community.

On that friday, I managed to remove my driver's side car mirror by using this neat trick with leverage and speed and narrow garages. Later that day, we had the staff party at the director's house. Everyone was open and friendly, but no one expected you to mingle opr behave a certain way.. thank god. We all got each other presents, and, I must say, we're all good gift givers. I got a box of what I have been told is extroadinarly decadent chocolate... it may make it's debut at the wine party, if I can stay out of it that long.

That Saturday was my dance performance which was an absolute blast. We did great and, of course, got massive amounts of applause... my husband and my friends said that our dances were the best 2 in the show (personally, I liked one of the modern pieces).

That next week brought funding issues/changes at work which caused me to have a migraine tuesday. Tuesday night, my husband and I went to "Avenue Q" for free because they did a fundraiser for my agency and comped us some tickets. Even though I know all the songs from Avenue Q because my husband fell in love with the soundtrack a couple of years ago, it stillmanaged to be unpredictable and HILARIOUS. There were tears in my eyes most of the itme and I almost came out of my chair 2 or 3 times... and the main girl who did the singing had a hell of a voice. Weds started christmas distrubution for the agency... it was chaos, but it would have been much worse without our wonderful volunteers and our amazing front desk person. Despite all the changes and the lower amount of gifts due to the lower amount of funding, most of the clients were great... a few were upset, but I think it was genuine need and not selfishness that was driving them, for the most part.

This past weekend, we went up to huntsville and saw some friends and caught a hockey game. While we were visint some of said friends, ahboo the wonder dog decided to run away from his nana, which meant we had to leave said friends to go retrieve him *rolleyes*.
Also while we were up there, dad and I did our annual shopping trip to buy mom's christmas presents. The shopping part went pretty easily and didn't take much time, but we sat and Lenny's and had a great many discussions about dogs and work and life, and it was fabulous... I don't think most people could understand how important this silly little day is to me, but I think daddy finally does.

Now, hubby and I are off for 2 weeks straight. YAY!