Craziness...Including World Thinking Day

my mind is on overload. complete and total overload. i know this because I was up until 12:00 am...then awake again at 1:00 and awake until - hmm - i think the last time i looked at my phone, it was 2:57. around 1:30 i went into rhys' room to sleep in his bed as he was in mine and i needed to read or do something that involved more light than i wanted in the room with sleeping people.

well - it's many hours later. pretty much as soon as i got up this morning, i was getting the kids' breakfasts and Irene's lunch, then out the door to get rob to the airport. on the way back, rhys and i went to safeway and got a few things for thinking day (found some tampico juices for pretty cheap - got as many as they had, got paper bags (200) - the lunch size all ready to be written on, and a few other things), then to the post office to drop off our signed papers for the re-fi we're doing (hopefully that's all still a go - they ddin't have everything correct on one of the many MANY papers we needed to sign), then back home b/c rhys wasn't going to happily go to another few stores as i tried to find the best buy on waters and maybe more juices.

so - the overload is mostly worrying about World Thinking Day - i'm in charge of it...this seemed like a safe and sane idea way back in august when i said i'd do it. then november arrived and pat stopped chemo and there were the holidays and visiting/supporting/etc as much as we could, during that time my gramma also went into the hospital with pneumonia and what turned out to be congestive heart failure, then being exactly where we needd to be with Pat and Bob and Rob's sisters during Pat's last days (truly, there's *NOplace* we'd have rather been than in Lodi during that time). when we came back home after that last week, i promptly started scanning/archiving/documenting photos to get ready for pat's memorial so that rob would have one less thing to have to do. my gramma went back into the hospital and the day before pat's memorial, gramma was able to go to my cousin vicki's and hospice was put into place (gramma is now back with my great aunt in the little house with full time caregivers). so, things have been a bit...um...busy and things that have been more important than planning World Thinking Day have been going on - OH YEAH! and my tests too! blurg!

so - this past week i've been non stop thinking about it. i think i have lots of things in place - just need to make my mind work for the printing - i'm making little passports for 150 girls (give or take) - i have the outside of the passports done and printed. i just need to figure out how to correctly print the pages for inside - you know - so that they are back to back and i'm able to staple them? yeah. that.

the order i placed with oriental tradiing company arrived (phew!) and the girls will get a "charm" from each country they visit (as well as the stamp in their passports) and at the end, they will get lanyard cording so they can make a bracelet...hopefully the girls (ages 5 - 18) will like it. so - back to last night...i kept waking up and then being unable to get back to sleep for thinking of all the things that need doing. when i switched to rhys' room, i grabbed my iPhone so i could at least type out the notes of what kept rumbling in my head.

the country our troop has is guatemala. our poor troop. last year we had such a cool display and did several things getting ready...this year? the display is still not done and it will be more leader put together than girl put together...damn. i don't like it when it's that way. i'm pretty big on having things done by the girls...but there just hasn't been time.

oh well.

rob called me from san francisco tonight. i'd fallen asleep with irene. i'll hopefully go back to sleep soon. i'm reading lisey's story. that might help...or not...as i like it very much. it's quite intriguing.

i don't even want to go back and read this - i hope it makes some kind of sense.

g'night.