PTSA Power

Last year when Caden was in Kindergarten I paid $25 for a family membership to the PTSA and never used it once. We never went to any of the activities they had, I never went to the meetings, nothing, nada, zip, zilch. So this year, I did not join the PTSA and yet somehow I have ended up on the auction committee. It's the only fundraiser Caden's school does all year, which is nice because we're not having to buy crapping paper, or crap knacks, or overpriced candy bars that the children eat on the bus and then hand their parents a box of empty wrappers and then expect you to pony up a check for said eaten candy bars at $3 a pop which is next to impossible because you already spent all your money on book orders for the same stupid kid; but on the other hand, the parents do all the work. And I do mean all the work.

I somehow have wound up in charge of all of the class projects - just making sure they get done. They're suppossed to be some kind of memorabilia thing, so lots of handprints, footprints, pictures, signatures going on with those. And of course I got handed the project midstream, so half the classes have parent volunteers already doing projects and half the classes don't.

Deep thought for today: If you leave a message and nobody calls you back, did you really leave a message at all?

Uh, nobody called me back. Until like a week later and then one lady did. Okay, so I have 3 of the 8 class projects all to myself. Luckily I'm so fetchin' awesome that I have no problem doing three projects. It's tickling my creative gene to HAVE to do something, instead of just choosing to do something. And all this would be fine if that's all I had to do. But no, oh no. I have also been assigned a list of businesses to try to cajole freebies out of. Now when I was a teenager I hated asking for something because I thought people would freak out and chase me with an ax or something, but now as a responsible adult I realize that the worst they can do is say no. Unless, of course, they are secretly ax murderers, in which case all my teenage angst will come to fruition. (Ooo, that's a .25 word. Everybody has to send me a quarter.)

I will contact all my businesses but, if you have a business and you want to rate at the top of my awesome-o-meter you can donate something for our school auction. If you have no business and still would like to rate at the top of my awesome-o-meter do not despair! You too, may donate something cool to the auction. If you actually do this (and I'm totally holding my breath, ready, *deep breath*), I will do a whole post about you and how awesome you are, and your generosity. Oh, and whatever you donate would be totally tax deductible; so the more value to the item the better for you. SWEET!

Okay, I'm starting to turn a lovely violet shade, so get donating!