Yes, I'm a woman and I said bitch. It's what I'm gonna do. Don't say you wasn't warned.
AAAHHH!!! Gonna have to start tearing my hair out soon. I wasn't posting yet last year, but I put together a family reunion for my husband's family. Only time they see each other ('cept those who live here...like within 10 minutes of each other) is funerals. Weddings...not so much. Mostly, he used to do restaraunt work. That means that the only vacation time he was ever allowed (unpaid of course) was during the middle of winter. By vacation, I mean laid off until spring. It's ok, the money in the summer made up for it. So, he never sees his family. He's got 4 brothers all within 20 minutes...and his sister too. The only one he actually talks to/sees is the one he works for. You get the idea. Anyway, they always express how much they'd like to get together for other than a funeral. DING! Can you see the light bulb yet? No idea what I was doing. I wanted hubby to be able to see his family, so I told them it was a family reunion. See...that way they would come. Oh...STUPID ME! All for it, virtually no help. (most of them really were busy) So...in 2 months I had invitations made, printed, mailed. Reservations, information for the resorts, hotels and activities around here. I spent 3 days just calling to see if anyone would have openings. It took 3 DAYS! Down here you need to make reservations 6 months+ in advance, or take the chance that you'll have nowhere to sleep. We have major tourism. Even the cheap, cheap hotels fill rather quickly, though they do NOT take reservations. I had to call people I didn't know. I had to write people I didn't know. AND worst of all....I had to actually MEET people I didn't know. Talk about trying really hard not to throw up for the 2 days everyone was together. (Call it extreme shyness.) So basically we, Karen and some others, cooked lunch, dinner, and someone brought donuts and called it brunch on sunday. Lemme tell ya, if I'd a known it was gonna be just donuts, I'd a cooked. I don't care if they are $50 donuts. A donut does not a brunch make! Breakfast + Lunch = BRUNCH! We were at a place with a pool. Live by the lake, so there was the intent to fish. Some of the guys went golfing, we have a crapload of those here. Then we had an 'auction'. I wanted to not go broke! So I told everyone to bring an item, anything they wanted, and we'd auction it off to pay for this one/raise money for next one. As we have never had any money, my contribution was the pain in the ass shit and using my programs to design invites and stuff. I also printed them out. It was really nice. Got some old photos and used those as a border for the invitation. Maybe I'll find one and put it up so you can see.

After all that, what do I do??!! VOLUNTEERED to do it again in 3 years. I am very determined to have a hell of a lot more involvement this time. Hubby's brother complained that we didn't have it catered. Finally, I says Look I can't AFFORD catering. Next time you can pay for it. They bitched about damn near everything. ASSHOLE. Unfortunately I still had to contact him today for family pics. So, so glad those people do NOT have this website address! I mean come on! You got to see family you hadn't seen in over 10 YEARS! What the fuck more could you want. I put the damn thing together with help from 1 person, who had a full time job, in 2 months with absolutely no idea of what to do. And no one wanted to suggest what to do.

Yeah, I'm starting on it now. I have 2 years. I'm gonna ride their asses, they just don't know it yet. SEE, see how far I'll go cuz I love my husband and want him happy?! Trust me, that's pretty much the only reason. Most of those people are still strangers. I am extremely shy and am naseous around large groups of people. I know a few of them, and I'm sure I'll hide out around them, kinda like I did last time. I set up a website for it. I wrote the fucking HTML. Yeah, that wasn't easy. I did cheat though, I used the CSS for my blog as a template and tweaked it. Changed damn near everything. Maybe I'll let ya'll see it. BEG ME! BWAAHAAHAAHAAA! (or however that goes, I gotta have my fun in here) I made an animated header. I made an animated bar for the sidebar. I found links to things like hotels and stuff in my area. I, the uncreative never know what to say, actually wrote words on the damn thing. I fixed pictures too. I'm done with it now. I had it running in one day. Today I validated the html and tweaked it. It's still not valid, but the only thing that isn't correct is the counter I have and the Guestbook I got. I couldn't find anywhere on the internet, imagine that, on how to write a guestbook. They got free ones, but no 'how-to's'. DAMN IT ALL!

Ok, bitching's over. Go mind your own damn business! (that was too easy, ya'll are suckers!)

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