Steve's big birthday party is Sunday, and I have loose ends that are killing me. Tables and chairs; I don't want to rent them when I have so many places I could actually BORROW them from. For instance, the VFW here in Havasu puts on a ceremony periodically, like most recently on 9/11. THEY asked Steve to fly the Cobra over the ceremony a few times. So he did. It costs about $1200 to do that, because of fuel and insurance. Steve's boss footed that one. When I called the VFW to ask about borrowing some tables and chairs for Sunday, they said no. "We have to keep a certain amount on the patio for our smokers." WHAT????!?!!!! I'm going down there this afternoon to talk about the $1200 flyover that they didn't have to pay for.
Then, I paid a local company to print "Huff's 1/2 Century October 14, 2007" on 100 pillboxes. I'm using them as party favors. I'm filling them with candy and putting them on the tables (the ones I don't have yet)
The printer didn't print the right date on the pillboxes. Their idea was to ignore it because nobody will notice. I disagreed. I paid $200 for pillboxes to be customized and I can't imagine anyone at the party would ignore that. So they're printing the right date on some metal labels and putting them on the pillboxes.
Everything else seems to be coming together, all the gifts I arranged for are done. Just gotta stay sane while my boss and I put together our last summer event this weekend. Friday and Saturday we'll be busy with that, then we have to switch gears very quickly and get the party ready on Sunday.
