Just a moment to write...

...because we're getting ready to leave and drive to Colorado in the early morning...this morning I ran over to my office to fax an insurance paper to Sandy and leave a note for Carol about the time cards; ran over to drop a load of stuff I'd been collecting for Salvation Army; then, as I started to drive east to pick up my mom and go to Brown County to pick up Abby and Whitney from Camp Palowopec, I was behind a pickup on Grimes Lane which ran a stop sign and hit a car at Grimes and Washington so I jumped out with the ever-handy reporters notebook I keep in my purse and gave the older couple who'd gotten hit my name and cell phone number and told them I had seen it clearly and that the pickup guy had clearly run the stop sign (inside my car, I was saying to myself "Oh, my God — he's not going to stop for that sign!" and he didn't, even though he was telling the older couple "Oh, yes, I sure did stop at that sign and I had the right of way" and I looked him in the eye and said "You sure didn't and I saw everything!")and the policeman called me on my cell and I gave my report over the phone while driving to Brown County and then the girls were still asleep when Mom and I got there and we had to wait an hour and then it was too late to follow our tradition and eat breakfast at the Hob Nob in Nashville after camp pick up because Jordie had to have the van back because he saw something he didn't like in the engine (which turned out to be OK) and they would look at it if he got the van over there by 11:30 so we drove back to our house, changed cars and then went to the Village Deli and stuffed ourselves! and I still have to:

• put labels on a bulk mailing of 400 postcards
• address about 30 personalized letters I did to invite people to be on the Membership Committee at Beth Shalom this year
• pack my suitcase
• put together enough reading material for two weeks
• put away a mountain of laundry
• clean sheets on the bed
• get a box ready to mail to Zohar
• call Sandy about a fax and whether it went through
• run to the grocery to get chicken and ice cream for Adam to have while we are gone
• run over to visit with Mom before we go
• run one more load of laundry...

AND...

• give up on making the house any more organized before we go!
• give up on vacuuming out the car!

BUT FIRST I'M GOING TO ... take a nap!