Pride Friday

I worked until 3pm and then my three day weekend started. I'm hoping it will be a fun time to focus on Pride.

The Grand Marshall reception is tonight, so instead of going home and changing into nice clothes, I wore my nice clothes to work. Living in West Valley can be inconvenient at times and today was one of those times.

I went to the setup site where Megan had been all day. I made a Budget truck run to the center before I arrived at Memory Grove where the Grand Marshall reception was being held.

When I got there, Kellie Anne was glad to see me and wanted to train my volunteers. I told her that she could give the information to me and I would take care of it. She started talking to me, then migrated into talking to the volunteers. My "favorite" thing she said:

"You need to highlight the name when someone checks in. Um, use that yellow highlighter."

The highlighter she pointed out was triangular with 3 different colors. After she micromanaged that point, I told her that I could take care of the rest and she needed to go do other things. Micromanaging to the point of highlighter color is ridiculous!!

Me and Jere

Jere and I (totally a posed shot)

Kellie Anne, Yellow Highlighter lady

The event was okay, though I don't really like schmoozie events. I spent most of my time with Beth, Shawn, and Robb in the registration area. Catering did have these AMAZING chicken roll things! I ate lots of them.

I saw Chris Sugden there and he looked really good--like really good. I first met Chris four years ago at an Evergreen conference and didn't really think he was cute. Today, he's transformed himself into a gorgeous guy. I'm not attracted to him, but I want to look like him. He really built himself up and looks really fit. After Pride ends, I'm going to start my regimen again.

I played a fun game at the event tonight. We kept getting the question, "Where is the bathroom?" by lots of people, so I said to my friends that we should say something funny back to them. I recommended, "It's over there, but it's whites only." I didn't actually say it to anyone, but we all laughed. If I actually said it to someone, they'd think I was a racist and have a skewwed opinion of me.

Once the event kinda ended (we left early), Shawn and I went back to the setup site (Beth went home to Orem) to help Megan.

It was about 10:30pm when we all finally wanted to go home. Megan said she was going to buy some things for Sunday that didn't have to be bought tonight. She was insistent that she buy them now because we would have no time the next day, though I knew that we would have time to do it. I knew that we'd have to be at the site tomorrow at 8am, so it would be better if we went to bed early.

I tried to press Megan into not going shopping, but once that girl has made up her mind that is it! She got upset with me, but I wanted her to get enough sleep. Yes, I'm not her father, but I'm just a friend who cares.

She ended up going to the store and I went to Wal*Mart to get gloves for my volunteers.