Alright we'll start the bidding at $5!

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Sometimes when I reflect on how my day went, I have those, "How does it happen to me type?" type of day. Well, I kind of had one of those. Not in a bad way, just one of those very random type ways.

Last weekend I went to spend time with my sister and her little baby. We talked, chatted, ran an errand or two until it was dinner time. For dinner we went to their local fire station to enjoy some spaghetti. It wasn't amazing by any means, but all the proceeds went towards equipment and training. These fire fighters are all volunteer and do have a budget, but extra money always helps right?

After the dinner they had some kids playing so music. They were on one of those tv shows, like Americans Got Talent or the X Factor or something. I don't know and it doesn't matter. It was some siblings with the oldest looking about 16 and the youngest about 8. They were good, it was kind of country, kind of blue grass, kind of something that involves a stand up base, madlin, and guitiars.

While standing around taking in a random old school firetruck in a bubble, the random assortment of people, and the little kids dancing like crazy in front of the stage. I was jealous of their lack of selfconcioushiness. If kids aren't shy then they just go all out wherever they happen to be. It is a trait I wish hadn't been pushed down and away as an adult.

Anyway, my sister's neighbor, how had help orgainze this event, came up to us and was like hey, can one of you help auction off some cakes and baked goods? My sister and her husband ofcourse volunterred me. I was like, are you serious? Do you really need someone? She said yes. I again tried to get out of it by asking if she'd asked anyone else. She was like we've asked like 5 other people and they all said no and you don't know anyone here so it would be fine.

I do talk fast and I've never tired to auction off anything before, so sure, why not? She let me know when I needed to come do this thing.

The kids on stage played a few more songs as my nerves started to get a little bit more jumbled up.

My brother-in-law asked if I needed to practice. I was like nope I'm good, I'll just wing it. Which the last time I just winged it, it was at their wedding and that speech.. well the guests liked it and there was some laughing. Which normally don't happen at wedding.. so yeah, not the best idea.

The kids announced it was their last song and I was given the wave to come over. I put my phone on silent and went over to find out how we'd do this. She's have the cart below, she'd tell me what kind of cake it was, we'd try to start the bidding at $5 and go up from there.

I get on stage and go to the microphone which would suit me best, which the littlest of the kids had used, however the sound is off. So I get to play Goldie Locks with a few microphones until I find the one that still had sound.

So the first cake is handed up and I describe it as a delisoush cake that is delisoush.

Yeah, I was nervous from there. The good news, I didn't repeat the same discriptive word after that.

However, I did get lost on what cake we had and what the last number to be bid was. Also, one couple was in the corner of my eye and I missed seeing them bid like twice. Oops. But people were cool about it, helped me out and I made it through.

The most excitement went to two guys who paid $45 each for some coconut cream pies. I sure hope they were good. 

So yes, I can now add auctioneer to my random list of random things I've done and never thought I would.

As so everyone can be amused, my sister was kind enough to send me the short video she took of the event. I haven't seen it yet, and don't plan too, but enjoy.

Has anyone else had something like this happen to them? If so leave a comment below.

Floating down a river.

This past weekend I took a time out. I went for a float down a river with New Dude, my brother and his brother.

It was a stressful morning because I NEEDED to run before we went and sat for a few hours. I hadn't been able to run in about 3-4 days so my bitchiness was coming out. So we got up early, went for a run and then had a mad dash of about 30 minutes to get 3 people through the showers, all the towels, drinks and whatever else we needed gathered and out the door. We had to stop to grab some food which, apparently 9:00 is a busy time for fast food places on weekend.

We were running behind, which was stressing me out a little because the way the talked about the reservations we HAD to be there at a certain time or bad things would happened. Also getting 4 people to one place at one time, was a lot harder that I had thought. I still keep forgetting this fact.

As a whole we were a little late but it was okay. About 20 minutes after we were there, we had a map, a dry bag, our snacks and drinks, and were floating down a river.

We went about 6 miles and it took us about 4-5 hours. At one point we were all very nervous that the trip was going to be ending very soon. Only to worry about an hour later that it would never end and that we were lost and never getting home.

The day itself was amazing. The water was calm, the sun was shining, the clouds were fluffy and all different kinds of shapes. There was a slight breeze that took care any little bugs.

We had nice supply of snacks and drinks, no cell phones, and mostly just good company.

While stopping for lunch we found a deer skull, trash and a trolling motor. We kept the skull.

We end up with some stories, like how my brother and New Dude's brother ended up flipping their canoe. It was due to over confidence,  my brother freezing when thing started to go wrong, and it was all done in SLOW motion. Quite funny. New Dude were able to watch and then help them out and flipped their canoe. There was a moment or two when New Dude and I almost flipped our canoe as well.

 

What I really enjoyed was, after getting there, was to sit back, relax, enjoy nature and just get outside with the people you love. Was it a super riveting adventure? Eh, when we almost flipped, but mostly it was just enjoying the day. Really, just sitting on a river, hearing both animals and trains, and enjoying the day. Being there, in the moment.

 

I also learned that floating in a canoe is a great way to learn how your communications skills are with your special someone else. New Dude and I did well, but I was having word issues. I also learned that I like to float down a river more straight then cutting back and forth to correct the direction we were going. I think New Dude was more just let us just float and see what happens.

 

For anyone else still new in a relationship, or even old, I'd suggest a canoe trip to see how it goes. See if you're on the same page and if not can you figure out a middle ground? I'd say sort of. I was up front of the canoe but I didn't really do much to move the canoe. If New Dude didn't paddle, then we didn't move. I don't know if it is the different in weight or my poor paddling skills. Either way, we'll just have to do it again to find out.

 

 

Another weekend has arrived. What are you going to do to make an adventure? If you cannot make an adventure are you going to at least get out there to enjoy the day or the moment? Are you going to really be there or just take pictures/snapchats/picture texts about it?

Red Jacket

 

My sister came and visited this weekend with her little bundle of joy.

 

She forgot to bring an article of clothing home with her. Which considering all the thing a baby has, isn't too bad.

 

 

 

New Dude tried on the jacket... but it wasn't quite fitting.

 

The funny thing about the jacket is that it first the bear, his name is Fuzzy, everywhere but his arms.

 

So currently her baby is the size of a bear. No wonder I think she is getting cutter.

 

I'm getting excited for winter.. I have outfits to buy and babies to be torment.. I mean show my love.

 





 Happy random Tuesday.