Festival @ MindSay

Kitsune no Tora

Drinking: Coke
Failing at writing: Duplicity ch. 6, Sweet Thing
Jealous of: some people's epic MSP skills
Reading: Some of my old fanfic favorites - I had really bad taste in lemons a couple years ago. O.o
Listening to: .hack//SIGN music - I BLAME KAIFU
Music stuck in head: Fake Wings from .hack//SIGN - I DEFINITELY BLAME KAIFU FOR THIS
Wants: To go swimming, to cuddle her kitty (he won't let me ;_;)

Kitsune no Tora is feeling: Tired, frustrated

Friday DID suck, but probably not as bad as it could have. I could have had to watch the booth on SUNDAY. D8 I feel bad for my cousin Kelsey, it was antagonizingly scorching and humid that day. I got the good day, it seems - Saturday my Aunt Sue and cousin Angela watched the booth in the pouring rain and thunder, and Sunday my Aunt Norma and cousin Kelsey watched it on Sunday in addition to taking the whole thing down without my sick aunt Ann's help. I didn't even have to put the tent up - my aunt managed to get it up the day before, even though she was sick.

Thursday night I went to bed early, around 9:30. Surprisingly (and maybe not so surprisingly, considering that the night before I only got about 4 hours of sleep because I had to get up to drive that old lady around) I fell asleep right away. But, unfortunately, about ten to one in the morning I woke up again and couldn't get back to sleep. ;_; That sucked, I only got about 4 hours AGAIN. So I dragged myself out of bed, ate something for breakfast, and watched tv/surfed the internet until I had to take a shower. At a little after 5:15 my grandma pulled into the driveway, and we were on our way.

The craft show was the Milford Memories festival. We managed to park really close to the booth (my grandma can't walk very far without getting tired, so that was lucky. I had to walk really slow so she could keep up), and my Aunt Ann and dad were already there with her car, getting ready to start finishing putting up the tent and put up the display. I wasn't very happy with Aunt Ann though - she was pretty sick, yet she was running around trying to do all of this herself, and apologizing every few seconds when we finally managed to get her to let us do SOMETHING. I just wanted to pull out a chair for her and tell her to SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND LET US DO IT. XD;;

Her new display is pretty nice - it's a lot lighter than her old iron display and tables. My uncle Jim built it for her - it's two wooden pyramid-like things that hold three shelves between them, the top being the smallest. She got a lot of compliments for it. :3 (Well, we did, as she wasn't there during the day. XD;)

My Aunt Sue came to help as well, but only for the morning bit before the show started - she had work at 11. I had originally thought the show started at 7:30 - after all, if it didn't start early, then WHY DID WE HAVE TO BE THERE AT 5:30 IN THE MORNING?! But no, the show didn't start until like, 9. >.>

So we got the display set up and the tent prepped to be zipped up that evening, and we finally managed to get Aunt Ann to SIT DOWN and rest for a bit. Then my dad took her back home, leaving myself, Grandma, and Aunt Sue there to finish tidying things up. I took a short walk with Aunt Sue down toward Commerce rd, looking at the displays being set up when we were done. (At about a quarter after 7. >.>) We didn't go far though, and I didn't really explore during the course of the day. What I saw was pretty cool though. I kinda wish I could have gotten some jewelry or something (there was some really pretty things on display), but they were all a little over-priced for my liking. ^^;

We got some coffee for my grandma and a Mountain Dew for me at the bakery (where earlier my dad and aunt Sue had gone and gotten donuts) and went back. We sat and chatted for a while until my Aunt had to leave at about a quarter to nine for work.

The morning for the show was pretty slow, in terms of what we sold. I don't think anyone bought ANYTHING until at least nearly 11. We got PLENTY of people coming in and looking, though. We had set up the booth so that I could sit and watch the customers (to prevent theft) and my grandma sat in the back, where we kept the money purse and charge stuff. I didn't really like sitting in the front, I was dog tired and nearly fell asleep a few times. ^^; A sleepy saleslady is not a good saleslady... I'm sure I looked generally not happy to be there, although I tried my best to look awake and happy when people came in. I ended up staring into space more times that I would have liked, though. D: And I think she had one of her pins stolen at one point, it's hard to see the things in the very front of the display, especially when there's about 7 people trying to crowd into the booth. D8

It was pretty hectic at some points, we got bursts of about 5 people trying to buy things at once, and people mostly used credit cards, which takes longer. She has an old-fashioned press thing that stamps the numbers on the card onto a piece of paper, and you have to double check the numbers to make sure they're all legible, including the expiration date, and then calculating all the tax and stuff with a normal calculator. XD She should get a charge machine, it would make her life a lot easier. ^^;

It was also a bit of a hassle making sure everything had prices, and that we knew what the prices were supposed to be. My grandma had to call up Aunt Ann a couple times to ask what something cost, because not all of it was labeled. We actually lost a sale because something was mis-priced, but the bad price on the pin was too low for us to let go. $18 is nowhere near $30. XD; She puts a lot of work into them, it was too low to just let it go.

My cousin Jay dropped by near 12-ish. I was kinda staring off into space when he came by, so I didn't notice him until he shouted out my name. I still didn't see him until he started waving around, and I TOTALLY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HIM. Seriously, that kid looks different EVERY TIME I SEE HIM. Which isn't often, but w/e. I gave him a "who-the-fuck-are-you-and-how-do-you-know-me" look, and he had to say his name before I realized it. XD; I felt silly, lol. I coudn't recognize my own cousin... He was out enjoying the festival with his friends, so he only stopped by to say hi to grandma and left.

Around 12:30 we ordered out to the sandwich place down the street for lunch. It was an hour wait! DX And they didn't give us our sellers discount! DX At least the food was good, but it was way too over-priced, and then they didn't give us the discount... ;_; $6.50 is outrageous for a sandwich and chips, srsly. My grandma got a salad, and I got to sit in her private chair so I could eat in peace while she watched the booth. She's a way better saleslady than I am, she should have been there the entire time. XD; She likes people watching more than I do, too. We switched places when I was done so she could eat and stayed that way for the most part until I left to go get some shaved ice. <3 It was pretty hot out, so that was nice. I got lemon~ It was a little too much, though, so I ended up throwing like, half of it away. DX It got too sweet near the bottom where all the syrup went. I ate it in the back and got to doze off for a few minutes.

Sometime between lunch and 4 my Aunt Norma and Uncle Jim stopped by to chat. They were going out to the beer tent to meet some friends, and they stayed for a while and talked to us.

I got a surprise after that, too - I saw my 6th grade gym teacher. XD;;; He was outside our booth talking to some people - I wouldn't have even NOTICED (I was staring into space again) if he hadn't introduced himself to those people. I O.o'd and loled, and almost went up to go say hi, but I decided not to. I was a bad gym student... I've always sucked at gym, especially running. XD; It was funny to see him after all this time, though. 7 years. (OMFG has it really been that long? O.o XD;;) He didn't look much different, maybe a little grayer. Well, actually, he was gray when I had him, he was white when I saw him. XDD

Around 4 I got a second wind that lasted the rest of the day, thank goodness. At 6 I ran up to the restaurant down the street and got us a few burgers. They were a little rare for my taste, and didn't have a whole lot of seasoning, but it was a pretty darn good deal for such a big one. We should have eaten there for lunch...

We had a countdown going after about 7:00. XD My grandma was just as eager for this to be over as I was - she got about the same amount of sleep as me, since they got back late from the emergency room. When the show was FINALLY OVER, we managed to get a time where no one was coming in and I closed the front of the tent, zipping it up. We took down the display and moved things to the bottom shelf so they wouldn't get broken, put a tarp over them, and shuffled all the tubs of extra merchandise as close to the center of the tent as we could. It was supposed to thunderstorm, so...

Doing that and zipping up the tent took about a half hour, and then we were off~

My aunt ended up in the hospital again on Saturday. D: I ended up calling her because I heard from my dad that she was thinking of skipping Sunday altogether and having everyone pack up the booth Saturday evening, but it turned out that Aunt Norma and Kelsey had already persuaded her to let them watch it that day. (Phew. XD; I don't mind helping, but doing it that day would have been not fun.) I'm still not quite sure what was wrong (originally it was something about her appendix, and then it was something about a kindey stone, I think?), but she's out now and recovering, which is good. She stayed upstairs when we visited for dinner today, so I'm not sure how she's doing herself, but I guess things are fine for the time being. But I'll probably be helping her in her future shows. I don't mind, as long as I don't have to be up so early again. >.> I'll still do it if she asks, but STILL. Being up at 1 in the morning, unless I had stayed up that late, is not my cup of tea. XP

This is waaaay too long now, so I'm going to end it here. Goodnight, digital abyss~