it's all fun & games until someone cancels the fireworks!

Lawdy, what I week I had ladies!

I really DID do two weeks worth of work in one...and one of those weeks happened JUST this afternoon!

I have this Summer Recess Program that we do in the summer. We serve about 300 kids a day. To do this I need employees. So I asked for more. Then the Human Resources dept. stepped in...or like I like to call them INHUMANE Resources. It was a pure battle of wills and wits to which they pitifully came unarmed. I had to march up there and have a "come to Jesus" meeting with this poor girl who: JUST. WASN'T. GETTING. IT. I was frustrated, gave her the what for and then went down stairs and thought to myself, "I could have handled that better, not as beeochy". So I e-mail her and she tells me that even as I was getting onto her she had the thought that "man, even when she is frustrated she's nice". LOL Good to know. (I think)

Anyway, I got my way. Then I have to figure out this firework situation. The Casino, who usually pays for the brunt of the bang...doesn't want to. If you guys haven't noticed, July is JUST around the corner! There is NO WAY IN GOD'S green EARTH that Hobbs can't have a July 4th celebration. We are the biggest City in the county...all the other towns do theirs the day before so they can come see ours...

That being said. If I have to pick up this event, I have give up my end of summer concert, it screws up my budget, is a logistical nightmare to move and to TOP IT ALL OFF makes me miss my son's BIRTHDAY! SOOOO after preforming nothing short of a miracle in the making ("rush a miracle get rotten miracles" - Miracle Max, The Princess Bride) We are well on our way to having an AMAZING July 4th Celebration this year in Hobbs. I am talkin' Free Games for the kiddos, awesome food, Diaper Derby, Bike Parade, tribute to the Veterans by the NMJC band and choir, declaration from Steve Pearce, a FLY over from some sort of aircraft...AND if all goes well, a concert right before the concert by the one and only Lee Greenwood(Proud to be an American guy)!

I had a huge "to do list" for next week and many of the things that I needed to do, either contacted me or fell in my lap after lunch today...odd.

Which brings me to my 10 Year High School Reunion. (the local version) It got dumped on me. I spent toO much mula and if people don't show I am gonna cry and have waaaay too many burgers on my hands! LOL

In closing, mainly because I choose to spare you guys more grueling details, although I have been unsettled because I have all of this responsibility, when it comes to crunch time...things take care of themselves.