What a week!...You have my permission to stop reading now!!

Has it really been a week since I posted? I should say has it JUST been a week since I posted! This last week has felt like 8 days at least! *L* Let me just list the events of the week for you.....

Sunday - BIL sits down to eat breakfast and somehow hurts his back! Can't walk...has to go to URGENT CARE to get something for pain!

Tuesday - Same family...their dog gets hits by a car and has to have surgery on it's leg.

Wednesday - SAME FAMILY!! SIL goes in for a hysterectomy! I am telling you...if their truck had died I would think they were living a Country Song!!*LOL*

Friday - Brother calls and says something like this "You don't have an extra $600 laying around do you?" Why yes I do! And I can't get it to do ANYTHING! *GEEZ* well turns out he is joking but goes on to tell me he needs it to pay for the Gastric Bypass he wants to have!....oh it gets better!....as I am hanging up the phone..my cell phone rings and it's my mother...

MOM-" I need a favor"
ME - "Ok.... Shoot"
MOM - " I need to borrow $300! I have made some kind of mistake in my checkbook and my Life Ins. check bounced and I need to get some money in the bank by 2pm"
ME - looking at watch..."Do you realize it's 12:30 now? Even if I had that laying around w/ the $600 your son needs I couldn't get it to you by then!"
MOM - Very serious..."well when can you get it?" Now I should fill you guys in on my mother....but really I just don't think you have the time this go round....I'll try to fill you in later.

While all this is going on I am having to attend meetings every night...no seeing hubby (who will be known from here on out as "Sugar Britches"...because I am from a small southern town where this is considered a term of affection...and it embarrasses him to no end! Glad he'll never read this! *LOL)
Anyway, back to my boring story...All week meetings...one family crisis after another...dear old lady from church passed away...and then the highlight of my week...

I MET DONNA DOWNEY!! Now those of you who don't scrapbook will have no idea who this is...well maybe you do...she is brilliant after all! *L* I am not one of these people who just falls all over Scrapbook "Celebrities"..let's face it, outside of the scrapbook world they aren't that famous...nothing personal..just the truth! But, I thought Donna was a "hoot" and I loved gossiping with her over lunch! She would soo fit in with my friends anytime! I won't even hold the fact that she is a Yankee against her! At least she finally wised up and moved to God's country! *LOL* She came to my Local Scrapbook Store (LSS for short) and signed her books and taught us a little project from one of them. It was a nice way to spend an afternoon.

And then....back to reality...I have to leave the fun and drive 45 miles to help clean up after the funeral (of sweet old lady mentioned above) and then I went w/ my Stepmom to visit another lady from the church who just got out of the hospital (If you are looking for my halo, it's hanging from one of my horns! *G*) The whole time...well maybe not the WHOLE time...but for a good 20 mins of the visit all I can think is.."Big Brother starts at 8...it's now 7:15...it takes 25 mins to get home from here...I need to stop and get gas because the gas light came on 10 miles back....ok so if I leave now...I'll get home in time" Well, I politely hug dear lady...tell her I hope she is feeling better and try to leave quickly...this is impossible! I know this!! I am after all from a small town full of "sweet older ladies" who can never just let you say goodbye and leave...this is not the southern way! We must walk slowly to the front yard, and talk another 15 mins. about what we would like to do to our yards, how the service went last week, what we have planned for tomorrow...you get the idea! I nearly burn rubber peeling out of her driveway, race to gas station, get $10 in gas because $15 would take too long! and then hustle home! I came screeching into the house right as Julie Chen was telling the HOH that it was a double elimination week! BE STILL MY HEART! *LOL* *SIDE NOTE* OK so I know I am pathetic and have no life...I mean really, who rushes home to see this garbage....but you have spent the last 10 mins reading about my life so who is the biggest loser??!! *LOL*

So tomorrow starts another busy week...I am scheduling some face time w/ Sugar Britches for Friday...that will be the next time we may actually be in the same place at the same time! Wish me luck!