Easter

As Easter quickly approaches I find myself planning the annual Church Easter Egg Hunt. This has been a tradition in our church for years. We always put a sign on the reader board advertising it to the neighborhood and we get a pretty good turnout of kids. This year my friend and I volunteered to coordinate it. Only my friend has been "too busy" to do anything (she's not too busy to go out with her boyfriend). So I'm left to do it by myself. I'm pretty frustrated because there is no budget for the Hunt, we rely only on contributions from members of the church. This year that has totalled $95.00 and a couple of bags of candy. There are a few people in the church willing to cover the costs above and beyond that but basically it's $95.00 and we have to try really hard not to go over. This is ridiculous. If you're going to have a hunt for the entire neighborhood you have to plan on spending more than that.

And the church secretary is driving me nuts about it. She told me I have to go in person to businesses and ask for donations. I told her no, I'm calling first because I'm not dragging Jack in and out of the car 15-20 times just to hear "Our Manager isn't in" or "No we can't help". She said that I really needed to go in person and wasn't there someone who could watch Jack? Or can't I get someone else to try and solicit donations? I decided not to tell her that she was welcome to take over if she knew what "needs" to be done. She is not my favorite person but I try really hard to treat her with respect because I imagine that a lot of church members act like thy're her boss since they are members and she's just an employee. The problem is that she doesn't seem to understand the concept of an "I" statement. "I've found that going in person is more effective."

I emailed her and asked if we had plastic eggs left over from last year. "I don't know you 'need' to ask so and so." So I asked them and they said we had some. She also gave me a message about a company that sold plastic eggs which kind of led me to believe that we usually order eggs every year. So after talking to a few people I decided to order them and put it on my check card. When I submitted the receipt after the funds had been taken out of my account, I received a phone call from her saying we had "bags and bags" of eggs and we didn't need to buy any. I told her that was just great because I already ordered them. "Well can't you cancel the order!?!" And nothing is ever said in a nice manner. It's always very bossy and snotty. Fortunately I canceled before I would have been charged a cancelation fee but I was still pretty peeved.

And as for my friend I'm pretty well disgusted with her. I've been dealing with a sick baby and husband and myself for over a month. I didn't just blow off the hunt planning until now because I wanted to hang out with my boyfriend (good thing cause my DH would have been pretty pissed). I know she does have things to do. She is taking classes at the local community college. But she also lives at home with her parents and her dad watches her child everytime she wants to go out somewhere or do something and she doesn't work. So she should have plenty of time to get her other stuff done and help out with this. If I had a babysitter at a moments notice I wouldn't have such a hard time planning this stupid thing. If she didn't want to do it she shouldn't have volunteered.

So there you have it. Me. In a bad mood.