In December, my Rotary club asked me to chair the year’s largest fundraiser … selling California oranges. “Sure,” I thought. “I know how to organize an event like this” Our club sold 324 cases and could have sold more. Our cut of the profit earned our club about $4200 which will be used to fund some local, state and worldwide service projects. Since I had never been involved before this year, I had nothing to base our success or failure on, but our club secretary said, “I am giddy with delight” so I guess I must have done OK.
As chairman of the St. George Art Museum’s Advisory Board, I also looked eagerly forward to the 12th Annual Soup-N-Bowl fundraiser when it began to be discussed at our meetings back in October. This event is where patrons of the arts buy a $20 ticket which gets them lunch, their choice of a handmade ceramic bowl and free admission to the art museum. “What’s hard about that,” I asked myself as I prepared press releases and radio ads and hurried out to sell my tickets. The results? Again, I have never attended so didn’t know what constituted success or failure, but I’m told we had a much bigger-than-usual crowd ... and we earned $9700!!! Not bad for an “old lady!”
Simeon and Selwin got their drivers licenses on March 1, picked up their $2000 missionary wardrobe from Adrian’s on March 5 and got their final immunizations for their missions on March 7. Simeon spoke in church on March 9 and, right after church, we got in the car to head for SLC and the MTC (Selwin leaves in about 3 weeks).
So what did this have to do with a “perfect storm?” All of this activity culminated in the same week.
Through it all, I have come to realize how much I need some new clothes, so after I catch up on my sleep … and now that I have some time, I am going shopping!!!
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