ridiculousness

today was ridiculous.

we are less than 48 hours away from recieving our first groups of students on-site and all the last minute details are catching up to us.

Ranger, our new staff memebr :) and I went shopping for all our supplies in Great Falls today.

It sucked.

well....maybe that is a little exaggerated. It was fun to hang out with him and get to know him better, and we were feeling pretty good after hitting Barnes and Noble, Home Depot, Dollar Tree, and Sam's club. The 15 passenger van was loaded with food and we had been there for a while...but were feeling very positive.

And then we went to wal-mart. I hate wal-mart. It is awful. I cannot explain in words how horrible wal-mart was. Except to say that I was pushing one cart...pulling one cart....getting wierd stares from people about the insane amounts of cereal, manwich sauce, and cookies in my cart. And it just took forever. My head hurt, my eyes hurt, And the shopping list seemed to never end. Or things were in random places that didn't make sense. I think I did about 10 circles through the grocery section with my cart.

I left Wal-Mart feeling like someone had just beat me up. And we weren't done yet. We had to make copies...which I payed $10 extra for because I put the paper in the wrong way...who does that? A few more stops....a two hour drive home...and we hit a 14 hour shopping trip.

I did not know you could shop for 14 hours. Now I know. And now I hate Fridays....because next week we have to do it all over again. Hopefully more efficiently.

Once we got back to our site, I began to take stock of all the little details that needed to be wrapped up and finished before students could come. This was very overwhelming, it is a lot to do! And then my boss showed up...as I'm at a spiritual, mental, and physical low. Not to mention going off of 5 hours sleep the night before and fresh from 14 hours of shopping. My boss is amazing and she jumped right in helping us with everything...but I feel like I wasn't on my best game.

oh well. I claim grace over today....and praise Jesus that it is over.