Slow and Go

 I'm a little late on the uptake this morning.  It's hard for me to get motivated when there is just SO much to do.  I spent yesterday morning going through all the paperwork for taxes.  As you can imagine, that's my least favorite thing to do.  Like the mechanic who never works on his own car, I'm bad about organizing all that paperwork and creating the worksheets required by my tax guy.  Making it worse, most all of my official paperwork is in a big cardboard box at the Post Office ... remember my P.O. Box got broken in to just before I left.

I didn't have much time to waste ... I was supposed to be at the Elks Lodge at 12:30 for official portraits by Cris.  He's my photography buddy from way back and I'm so happy the lodge took my recommendation to have him do the work.  

If you've ever met photographers, they are very closed mouthed about how to do things.  Not Cris, he'll show you everything, equipment to buy and how to use it.  He'll tell you all the secrets we learned years ago.  I'm also SO VERY proud that he has now lost 140 pounds.  When we had photo shoots in San Francisco, he was our body guard ... and a VERY good one!!  This is a good guy.  Too bad he's married.

Amazingly, all six people showed up for the portraits.  It actually takes longer to set the whole thing up than it does to take the photos.  Pretty snazzy table settings we had to squeeze in between.

Once the photos were done, we had 90 minutes to wait for the "official" arrival of the officers.  Truly, I'm not about all the pomp and circumstance.  It's just not my thing.  I hid upstairs in the bar waiting for the appetizers.  That's not my plate either .... full to the brim .... nor my fingers trying to steal a bite.  

At long last we went into the Lodge Room for the official swearing in of the new officers.  It's fascinating to see how people react to this sort of thing.  The new regime wants to return to the days of old with long drawn out ceremonies.  I may not be long for this, since this cowgirl really doesn't fit in with the mucky muck crowd, made all the more difficult since I'm single.  I think I should just stick to Bingo!!

As soon as the festivities were over, they all headed down to the prime rib dinner.  I snuck out the back door as fast as I could, so relieved to get that bow tie off my neck!!!

This morning I return to unloading with a trip to the grocery store as soon as possible.  I have one avocado, a few tortillas and a bag of potatoes chips for dinner.  Somehow that isn't very appetizing.  To make it worse, I'm out of peanut butter cookies!!  Time for some baking.