I'll Take a Side of "You've GOT to be KIDDING Me!" With That

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Seriously.

What. a. day.

We arrived at the Glen Ellyn venue promptly at 10:30am despite a late start. Nice place. Impressive. We wind our way through vendors to find our table. Ahhh, right between two other home based businesses...this should be interesting! Someone kindly enough left their ENORMOUS soda sitting on our table. I gave the ladies to the left of us the eye and questioned politely if it belonged to them. (Putting your affects on another's table before they arrive and while you're setting up is quite common.) Evidently it's the Glen Ellyn Ghost's because no one laid claim to it. So naturally, I set it on the floor off in a remote corner...only because there wasn't a trash can nearby. Set up was quick...me arranging and everyone else lending an eye. With half an hour to spare, another consultant and I walked to the nearest McDonalds (remind me why I do that to myself?!?! Ewwwww!) to grab a quick bite before endless hours of work with no break in sight until 6pm. I polished off my venti black and white and waited for the hoards. Prospect-wise, the event was great. Quality women from quality areas. The real "fun" came from the other tables we were sandwiched between. To the left, a candle company, slowly and slyly encroaching on our space. To the right, a jewelry company, not so slowly and definitely not slyly encroaching on our space and prospects. I was (luckily for everyone else) placed in the middle, otherwise I'd have had no problem exchanging words with Mr. Got Dragged to This By My Wife and Don't Know What I'm Doing or What It Means to Be Polite. Anyone who really knows me knows that I have a long fuse. But there are certain things that make me skip the fuse and hit the blast box and heaven help the person that trips that. I don't have a problem being brutally honest and calling people on blatant ignorance and lack of social skills. That's why I got put in the middle I suppose. But all in all, it was a success and we left jovial and ready to head out for a bit back in our neck of the woods while we went over the event together. By 7pm we were done eating and hashing and on our way home. Of course, I was on my way home to a husband who had to leave the moment I got there because our rental property flooded. FLOODED! There was no enormous rain. There had been no standing water. In fact, our house is the only one in the neighborhood that didn't take on water during the massive flooding in the fall of 2006. Yet FLOODED it evidently was. Modern. day. miracle. So, after a crazy day yesterday, and an exhaustingly long day today, I've been left to wrangle children solo (I don't blame my husband, just the tenant). And now that everyone's heading to bed I probably should too. It's hard being exhausted when you're a night owl...I'm so tired but still ready to stay up!