Holdin' down the fort

Well we're back after the christmas holiday and I hope everyone out there enjoyed it! Lucky for me my mom's birthday is the 27th so i kind of get to enjoy double the celebrations. we opened presents and stuff on christmas eve this year so that we could visit my grandpa up in toronto which was great and then got to watch avatar for my mamjam's birthday, which by the way was crazy amazing.

But after a badly needed 4 day weekend, Amy and I got to return to the United Way office and hold down the fort for the next few days before another well deserved 4 days off :).

So today is going to be a slow catch up day. It took Amy and I almost 15 tries to be satisfied with this picture... clearly we are super excited to be back in our lovely office :)

I really don't have much to report just need to put my nose to the books and work, work, work! Happy New Year everyone!

Despite the cold, I always had a smile on my face... when I looked at Connie

So last Thursday and Friday the staffers at United Way of Quinte volunteered at the COLDEST P&G Sale I've ever participated in... this being said I0 am NOT looking forward to our January North Hastings Sale. If it's anything like this past sale (and I heard it was going to be much worse) I think I may be sick that day.... Anyways the point of my story was that I had the wonderful job of running the shopping sheets from outside inside, which doesn't sound so bad, except that my toes felt like they needed to be amputated within the first half hour... but like i said, despite the cold I always had a smile on my face... Connie straight up looked like a ninja cowgirl and gave me the giggles... everytime i looked in her direction. Join me:)...:

Everyone needs a little humbling embarrassment.

And boy did I get it. I've never been a great morning person, in fact I hate mornings. The problem is that I never help myself make mornings better (i.e. GO TO BED AT A DECENT HOUR!)... Although I know I should go to sleep and there usually isn't anything good on after 10pm anyways, I can never seem to will myself to sleep until its past midnight. This being said, the tale of my embarrassment unfolds...

So it's Sunday night and of course I hit the hay at a little past midnight and I full on konk out. My room was that perfect oven roast temperature where the second you're asleep you don't move an inch throughout the night...Anyways, all of a sudden I wake up and whip around to look at my clock (this is a normal occurrence for me... i have a tendency to sleep in due to lack of sleep time). I see that the clock reads 10:30 and just about have a heart attack.

Now because I'm such a horrible morning person my clock was actually about a half hour fast which I always forget in my zombielike morning state. I jumped out of bed knowing that my wonderfully caring co-workers probably think I've been murdered since I live solo, and raced to my cell phone which I always keep in my living room.

8 missed calls and 4 texts.

Before I get a chance type a single word I hear a knock at my door. Not even thinking about my bedroom attire I open the door to find my boss and our office volunteer Jack. "I'm sorry I'm not wearing any pants!" was about all I could muster in my panic stricken, delusional state. Followed by many "I suck"'s. Long story short, I think Connie said it best... I need an alarm clock that slaps me in the face to wake me up in the mornings... and to be honest if it saves me from answering the door in my knickers, I'd be willing to take a little slap every now and again.

First real snow fall of the year...

Nothing quite like waking up to the sound of a snowplow scraping across a parking lot...but there is always a positive in every situation. In this instance...SNOW, and I know there are many who are not fond of the white stuff but I am, and as much as I wasn't impressed by the god awful sound coming from my bedroom window, who can be upset to go outside into a beautiful white wonderland, find their car under 5 inches of snow and then walk to work because their parking lot was in fact not plowed? ...Not me, I'll tell you that much. I'm glad the possibility of a white Christmas is now in fact a possibility, even if it means wet socks and colder temperatures...But enough about the beautiful weather we are having, I may just have some other work to do...

So I hope everyone staying home today has a fantastic day off and everyone who's trudging to work, I hope you made it there safely!

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I know it's only Tuesday but it is so weird not having Brandi here! Her last day was this past Friday and I miss her already.... well everyone misses her already. We all wish her the best success butttt she should just come back ;) Thank you to everyone who came out to her going away party. It's amazing to see how many people Brandi has had the opprtunity to meet and make a positive difference in their lives. She's certainly helped me out through a lot of things and I can't thank her enough for her open door policy... whether she intended for that or not :)


But anyways... we'll miss you Brandi but we know you'll be incredibly successful in your new position!

It's still Charitable Giving When You Gamble ;)!

Well I've been completely swamped trying to get out all our thank yous to our donors and sponsors for our past events and haven't had time to reflect on what a great night Casino Olympia was! Over 250 guests attended and raised over $20,000 for our 75 funded programs throughout Hastings & Prince Edward Counties.

This event was a ton of fun, it was hosted in my hometown at CFB Trenton and it was great to see new crowds come out to a great United Way event and have fun. Between Black Jack, Balloon Pop and all the other great games we had, thousands of dollars worth of prizes were won. Thank you to all our great volunteers for manning the Black Jack and games tables, our fantastic committee for all their hard work, CFB Trenton for ALL their help and of course everyone who donated & sponsored the event!!! I hope everyone had fun because I sure did :)