well.....

remember this post well... the computer had to go in for surgery that's why I have been MIA.  Sometimes it a good thing to be disconnected for awhile, as Martha says.  But in this day and age it really is impossible to do that.  We are so connected via this tall black box of bliss and headaches.  I kept asking myself while it was gone.....I wonder if the Softball game got changed and in the middle of this "downtime" I was finishing up the yearbook for the school.  It happened like this...

I have done the yearbook for the past two years... remember this post I have had to up my prescription of Prozac this year.   Well I was minding my own business planting flowers (do I sound like the Tin Man?) in my New ceramic tub to beautify my porch when

 

I get a phone call from the PTA that the person who committed to doing the School Year book backed out and would I do it.  Ok...I say when is the deadline?  Ah it's in two weeks...OK....so I think to myself,  I have done it for two years now I should be able to whip this puppy out lickety split.  HA!!!!!  It has been one thing after the other trying to get it together.   Mind you I get called to work several times a week so I don't have lots of leisurely days to "cut and paste" like the the good ole days.  The first hurdle is the Yearbook Kit is missing some pages in it so I have to go in search of that.  Found one, don't know where the other is, it's pictures of "retakes and new students" so I have to get pictures of ALL of those students and find out who they are.  Then over spring break where I usually put the whole thing together and it's off on it's merry way I realize that some teachers (new) didn't proof their page correctly so now I have to wait for school to get back in session so I can get a class list and proof each class.  Finally I do that and go back into the class to get more student pictures.  This is very time consuming and I haven't even started with the cut and paste yet.  Ok...I'm working away typing up dedication and resizing boxes for the baby pictures for the 5th Grade Dedication page when I got to open an email and BAM there is is again a pop up that tells me to buy this spyware and my computer needs this program and to put in my credit card number etc....well I have learned to Ctrl, Alt delete and get out of there but it keeps popping up , well ...it had to go into surgery (the hardrive is corrupted)   OY!!!  But before it goes into the shop I'm able to go into safe mode and send my pages to a friends computer and print them out along with the titles of the pages.   Ok...it gets done this past Saturday but as I go through the KIT I'm missing the shipping box to ship it in, which has the address printed on it.  So I call the Yearbook rep but I get his cell phone which tells me it no longer works and I have to contact him on Monday at the office.  Ok so on Monday I pack up the year book and his phone number in my basket so I can mail it on my lunch because at this point I'm WAY past the deadline.  I also am working this morning so that is why I plan to ship in on my lunch break.   I get to school but down my basket and my coffee cup has leaked all inside my basket, the to go coffee cups are top heavy and I'm always tipping them over but I THOUGHT I had screwed the lid on tight.  So what do you think happened?   Yes....coffee all over the yearbook pages....

 

See...this are all individual class envelopes that have pictures inside so I have to take them out and dry them and unstick any pictures.  In all about 8 pictures got ruined but the pages hopefully can be lighted or I suppose have a tea (coffee)  stained quality about them.   I'm currently waiting on one baby picture from a student so I can ship it off , I am so done...as my husband says, "put a fork in me". 

Comments

[gabrielle]

It's not over they called yesterday while I was teaching say they have to send it back and I have to redo the WHOLE thing!!

[Beka]

Ellie, you did such a great job on the yearbook! They were so lucky to have you to fall back on. I am so glad your computer is back!!!

[the pleasures of homemaking]

Well I'm surprised you agreed to do after last years drama! That was good of you. I'm sure you'll be glad when you get that last picture!

Manuela

[Penny @ Lavender Hill Studio & The Comforts of Home]

Oh My Goodness!! What a time you have been having. I am glad it is finally done. Hope the rest of your week is going to be wonderful.
Hugs,
Penny

[shelley e]

wow Ellie- too much stuff going on there...glad you got it done tho- sorry the coffee spilled!