Mercy

I'm exhausted.

I'm not sure I've ever worked so hard in my life as an adult. I worked very hard in school, juggling loads of homework, after school activities, practicing... you name it. But whether in high school or college, I had some one else to make my food (mom or college cafeteria), someone to do my laundry (mom or, well... mom), and someone to clean up after me (mom again). I need my mom. In my 31 years I have never appreciated more how much my mother made it possible for me to work so hard without going crazy. These last two weeks I've had to work super hard and still take care of myself. I'm wearing my second to last clean pair of underwear and so far today all I've eaten for breakfast and lunch are donuts. Clearly I'm barely hanging on.

Have you ever made a power point presentation? Last week I made 8. Totalling over 1,000 slides. Did I mention that I'm exhausted?

This week I got to see that hard work come to life...while still working incredibly hard on other things. This has been my view each morning at our education concerts:

My view from the Production Pit

I will admit, I was pretty stinkin' proud of how well everything turned out. I don't know if I would say all of the work and stress was worth it.... well... if I had been able to do all of that work over a longer period of time it would have been worth it. Let's leave it at that. One of the concerts even got featured in another blog! Read about it here.

Of course I'd be leaving a big part of the story out if I failed to mention one of the concerts was cancelled because... we had a blizzard. Before you look at this next picture I need to make it very clear. There was NO snow here the day before. None. You could see grass, pavement, and bushes.

Employee Entrance to Job #2

And just for fun - even though I wasn't there to witness it, this also happened at Job #2... this picture was even featured on the weather channel!

One of my fellow associates

Anyway, I have one more final lap to go. There is a family concert on Sunday that I have to get ready for. All of the concepts are in my head, which is a good place to start, but at this point I have less the 48 hours, no volunteers (they all backed out), and whole lot of work to do to make those concepts a reality by 1:00pm on Sunday. THEN I'll finally get to breathe (for about two weeks).

Until then... back to work.