Oh I am exhausted today! I went shopping last night and got everything I needed to do a meat giveaway for the Blessing Box, but it was a big one - 7 days worth of different types of meat. Let's see - 2 pounds of ground beef, 2 cans of tuna, a pack of hot dogs, a kielbasa, a pack of like 4 or so ham steaks, a large pack of chicken quarters and some pork chops. Everyone who was picked for the giveaway got all of this, 20 people in all. Today was supposed to be the signups, which last an hour, but it usually takes me about an hour and a half to get through all of the messages. Then I do a quick video of the numbers being chosen by a random generator online, and then I post it up. THEN I have to message everyone who won, scheduling pick up times. Well, pickup was originally planned for Thursday, but there's more bad weather coming, so I figured fuck it, let everyone come now. So between 2:30 and 4:00 pm today I had 18 people come and pick up their meat! That means I had to put together all of that into bags. Gah! It might not sound like a lot, but it was! I am wiped. I had a volunteer here to help, but I had her working on clothing requests and organizing little packs of chips, granola bars and snack stuff most of the time, because that was all a mess.
I'm doing laundry right now - I scooped up my clothes that were piled up with some towels in the main bathroom on the floor. I emptied the litter boxes in MisterMoonbeam's bedroom and office after the Blessing Box closed at 4 pm. BugGirl is sick due to kidney pains so she isn't coming to clean today and those need to be done! So do the rest of the litter boxes, but I can't find the long-handled scooper - it's probably in the basement. I'll check when I go down to get pajamas on, which hopefully will be soon. Like I said, I'm exhausted! DarkKnight is out picking up some drinks - we are out of diet soda and bottled water.
Tomorrow is my day off, but if BugGirl isn't any better, I will have to vacuum and clean the floors in here. Ugh. I really just want to spend the day curled up on the couch, reading about nonprofit paperwork. That doesn't really sound like fun, but I feel motivated to start getting the paperwork completed. I read yesterday that it takes about 100 hours to get everything in order for a 5013c. Ugh.
Oh! Positive though - I heard back from the logo designer (I did end up deciding to give her another shot at things) and she gave me 3 different logo mockups. The first really hit it out of the park! I am super excited because its so simple, yet fits so perfectly! We had some back and forth yesterday about color options and she sent me more pictures and I am just over the moon! She said her $250 estimate was a little high, so she wants to lower the cost to reflect what it really cost her, and she will be sending me an invoice the next couple of days. HOWEVER, she doesn't want me to pay her. Instead she wants me to pay myself for all the amazing things I do with this organization! This totally blew me away, but she was adamant that she wants to do more volunteering, and this really fits with her idea of a helping the community. So, that happened.
Another thing to mention is that DarkKnight and I had conversation last night about our 15 year wedding anniversary, which is in March. He thinks we should go to the beach, since we had to cancel our Christmas trip. He says he thinks its important for me to be able to experience and make new memories on the water with him. Be still my heart! Anyway, I spent a few minutes looking at pricing and it looks like things will still be cheap because of the weather. I think we may end up in Virginia Beach, which I have never been to before. That said, MisterMoonbeam and I already have plans for our one year dating anniversary - in late March - we are going to go to this cool brewhouse in Pennsylvania that has haunted rooms and a fancy restaurant in some catacombs. It sounds super cool. He actually mentioned this place in our very first OKCupid conversation, and I am excited to go there with him. When Covid restrictions are gone, they have ghost hunting, murder mysteries and medieval feasts there, which sounds like a blast. Apparently they also have an escape room! DarkKnight says that he wants to date MisterMoonbeam so he can go to the brewhouse too. LMAO He pouted a little when he heard about it and then said that our anniversary is first on the calendar, so if I agreed to it, we could sneak over and go there together FIRST. He's such a trip! He was joking, of course, about "stealing" the getaway, but I do think he would enjoy going there later! Honestly, between the two of them, things are so smooth here at the house. I feel very loved and cherished. I hope they feel the same - I do my best to make sure they do!