Chocolate Covered Hackey Sacks

Wow it's been quite a while since I updated last - I apologize...there isn't a whole lot of exciting things to report from this week, but mainly I've been really busy.

Last night there was a meeting for parents and people from the church who are interested in finding out about the youth ministry program and I spent all week tweaking and fine tuning a powerpoint and what I was going to say to these people, buying desserts and all that stuff.

It was pretty disappointing. In the beginning there were only 5 people who showed up, plus Cameron (Karl's youngest son) and one of the guys, Iain, from the trust committee. Well they're people too but it wasn't geared towards Cameron and Iain had to be there to be the trust committee's rep at the thing. John had to show up late coz he was at a rotary meeting, as was Karl. Oh and one person came in late. So a whopping 8 people in total heard the message and then Karl and John showed up just in time for dessert. Ha.

It was a little discouraging, but the two churches represented (no one from the baptist church came, just the Prezzies and TCC'ers) said that they would like to see the same presentation done on Sundays at the different church services because likely lots of people want to get involved, but it's so busy during the week that these sorts of meetings never have a good enough turnout to fill the full potential.

It was sad. Sort of my first independent effort to build healthy relationships with parents and church-goers for support in the ministry went a little down the tubes. But the people there were more than willing to fill out the "Ministry Needs-Response Form" and they filled out quite a few things, so at least I know I have a few very gung-ho types.

Tonight is the second Fusion. The boys and girls are having a competition to see who brings more friends along. I'm excited to see the turnout. I'm more or less ready to go, just need to buy a few game supplies and MAYBE put together a quick powerpoint for the message, but I'm probably going to stay away from that for now. Powerpoint seems to take up a LOT of my time coz I like to do it really well and cool looking and I think that Powerpoint and I need to "take a little break".

"No no, P.P. It's not you. It's me. I'm sorry..."


...?!?!

...yeah, ok. I'm officially running on a huge lack of sleep after staying up to ungodly hours of the morning watching the Olympics which already happened but we don't get them until way late at night. Oh, and by ungodly hours, I mean I went to bed at midnight. Much later than I've been going to bed these days - I average around 10:30 or 11, and still can't manage to drag myself out of bed until 9:15 or so, which is exactly 2 "snooze buttons" after the alarm goes off at first. I don't know why, I just don't sleep well during the night and when the morning comes is when I start to actually feel tired enough to stay in bed...but that's when I need to get up!

I believe Australia took its first gold ever yesterday, yes? It was cool.

Alright well it's working time. Mostly today is going to be meant for shopping for the event and relaxing before tonight. In a matter of weeks, my Fridays and Saturdays are going to be the busiest days between running the senior high and junior high programs - those are the only two days of the week that people are guaranteed to not have other commitments. I've already had a few junior highs asking "When's the Edge gunna start?! That looks SO cool!" hehe, cute kids.

Since this week was spent doing nothing but preparing for that stupid dessert meeting, I didn't get any program planning done. Sigh. So next week will be for that. Plus I have to start moving on this community worker thing - except most of this week has been trying to put together my job description and figure out exactly what I'm supposed to be doing for this job. I feel kinda like next pay is going to be ripping them off because I have a set salary and I certainly will not be spending 20 hours this week on community work stuff. Ugh. But I guess once things get rolling I'll be spending way more than 20 hours a week on it and making up for lost time.

Ok. I'm actually gunna go now. This is just rambling by now. I'll either update again tonight after the event or tomorrow - depending on how tired I am...

Jacquie, out.

P.S. I miss my country music station. That just reminded me of "Jason, out!" on Country 95.3's Family Fun Guide. Sad...

On the plus side, Reba is on tv every weekday at 11:30 am. My cellphone reminds me. :) It's my half-hour of freedom during the work day.