My Life On The DD List

Packing for The Breast Cancer 3 Day.  Who knew that 7 events in, that I’m STILL having a difficult time trying to pack everything I need and have it weigh 35 lbs!  It’s almost like when you’re dieting around the holidays.  You know you’ve fallen off the diet wagon and your afraid to look at the scale because you’ve stuffed too much in!   However, I’m “editing”.  It’s difficult.  Well, let me explain why it’s difficult this year. 

Each year, the week of the event, we receive our email from the coaches reminding us to go over our list, check the weather etc. etc.  Well……I’ve checked the weather.  Inclement doesn’t seem to do the job in describing what is in store.  And if anyone who participated in the 2006 event will remember, it was inclement also.  So, with my memory of that event in my head, I’ve tried to remember the things that were important.  Dry clothes, dry feet and somehow a source of warmth!  Where to go…where to go…AH HA! The hunting/sporting department in Walmart!  They’ll have STUFF!   So off I went, last night, to Walmart to see about some STUFF!

Rain ponchos, check.  Next, source of heat.  As I scanned the shelves, I saw nothing that would keep me warm.  The Hub was with me, so naturally, whilest I was browsing the aisles for STUFF, he asked an associate about little heat packs that sportsman use to keep their hands warm.  SCORE!  Extra socks, check.  Gloves, check.  Now, I have to find little shoe covers for my sneakers, to keep them from getting soaking wet.  I’m still on the hunt.  I have 3 days to find them.  3 days, kind of ironic no?  I’m also going to pack some newspaper (if I haven’t already sent it all out to the recycle pile!)  When you ball up the newspapers and put it inside your sneakers, it will wick out the moisture from your sneakers should they get wet.  A GREAT trick I learned during the 2006 “inclement” weather situation. 

SO my packing list has grown to accommodate the “inclement” weather gear.  This is why I’m having difficulty editing.  Because I know what I’ll want and what I’ll need, however, I’m not sure it will fit!  It’s probably at 30 lbs now and I haven’t finished packing my fanny pack, my spare pair of sneakers or the rest of my knickers!  I know, it seems crazy to go ahead with walking in an expected “inclement” weather situation, but we’re women on a mission.  We’re like little pink mailmen & women.  Neither rain nor hail nor sleet nor snow nor heat of day nor dark of night shall keep this walker from walking toward a cure!  So with that said, I’m going to pack all my STUFF, I’m going to head to Philadelphia, I’m going to REMIND Mother Nature that we’re walking for HER boobs TOO and I’m gonna have yet another SPECTACULAR weekend with the most amazing people I’ve ever met and meet some new amazing people as well!

 Off to pack my stuff, wish me luck!

When I first moved into this lovely home, I thought, I have a PANTRY!  A walk in PANTRY!  It’s sometimes the little things that make us happy and this pantry was really one of them.  We organized the pantry.  Put the groceries in the pantry.  Put the Pyrex in the pantry.  Put the “Costco Paper Purchases” in the pantry.  Put the…..the……the…..well, lets just say EVERYTHING went into the pantry!  And in short order, that pantry became something you’d see on the TV show “Clean House”!   So needless to say, I clean out and try to organize the pantry whenever I can.  But I insist there is a little guy that lives in there.  This little guy likes living in the disarray and the mayhem in the pantry and does everything he can to mess it up.  I say this because I walk into the pantry and find out that all of the “organizing” I’ve done, has somehow been UNdone.  Canned items are with the pasta, the cereal is with the all purpose flour and the dishwashing detergent is with the dog treats! 

Today, I’m going in to clean out the pantry again.  I HATE cleaning out the pantry…..it’s almost as bad as cleaning out the fridge.  I’ll go into THAT in another post.  As for today, I hope to find the little guy that lives in there and explain that he’s got to GO.  Wish me luck…..