Note to self

Just a little note to self...DO NOT stay up past 3:00am the night before going to Seven Peaks. When will I learn? I'm such a chump. I stayed up blogging last night because I was in a state of euphoria after receiving the cute gifts from Jenn, Collette and Jana and from having a good night regrouping with all of them. I kept looking at the clock and thinking "just a few more minutes." I should have known how irrational being tired makes me and remembered how much Seven Peaks sucks the life out of me, but nooooo.

So I set my alarm for 9:00am knowing that I was looking at less than 6 hours of sleep but thinking if I got up then I'd have time to shower, pack lunches, blog and be ready to meet Amie by 10:30am. I woke up at 10:15!! I called Amie to tell her and our conversation went like this.

Amie: "Your kids didn't wake you up?"
Me: "No, they never do."
Amie: "Even though it's almost lunch time?!"
Me: Guttural laugh and confirmation of Amie's 1950's housewife personality.

So Amie ended up driving over here to pick us up instead of us meeting in a parking lot closer to the freeway. I was still in the shower (had to shave my legs) when they got here. I was so flustered. I made a peanut butter sandwich, grabbed some pringles and filled my big mug with ice water so we could go (the kids had already packed their lunches).

I didn't realize until we were there that I had forgotten to back my low lawn chair $#@! (I keep it in the back of my car). Seriously, this was a major problem. I checked the gift shop to see about buying another one, but they had a lame kind that I didn't want to buy. I ended up using one of their white plastic taller chairs, but the back of it kept bending, thus causing me a lot of involuntary ab work. I'm shocked I didn't break the chair completely, but instead spent almost the entire day shifting positions and trying to get comfortable. This did not go well.


Today was the first time that Michelle and her kids were able to be there at the same time we were. I fear I was so grumpy that Michelle and Amie will have no choice but to plan future visits to Seven Peaks without me (I'd be fine with this). I tried to push through my frustration, but really when you consider the 100 degree weather, multitudes of fat white people in bathing suits (me included though covered in board shorts and a t-shirt), weird smells of dampness and mud, whining kids all around us, and hunger from the lame lunch I packed you've got to figure that's more than I can take. I joked with Amie on the way home and said I'm like my autistic brother Andrew and need to go hum by myself in the corner; now that I'm thinking about it that's not really a joke I think he's onto something.

So I need to apologize to Amie and Michelle for my lame behavior and grumpiness, and pledge that I won't stay up past 3:00 the night before getting together ever again!

**Are you able to go with the flow
or do you get grumpy when chaos abounds?**