me ~ a bouncer & about today

o my gravy, i have been so excited to share with you what i have been up to the past few days ~ today i am going to talk about my rockin' friday night & today!!

*friday night ~ i volunteered at the SHE event at my home church ~ rebecca st james; evie tornquist; & rebecca's brothers ~ joel & luke were our entertainment for the evening

my job was to be the "bouncer" of the good seats ~ o my gravy! i was pumped ~ bring it, bring it!! *kidding*

OK, let me start with a funny thing {well, to me at least} ~ the good seats were called the "gold seats" and the tickets for that section were pink. the "general seats" had purple tickets ~ i thought that was comical & so, i threw my head back and laughed loudly "hahaha!!" for simplicity, i think we should have called them pink seats & purple seats ~ but that's just my cRaZy idea!!

there were at least 20 ladies that i had to "bounce out" of the good section because they had "general seats". some were gracious & some not ~ hopefully they knew it wasn't personal, but, that i was just doing my job {God bless you dear ladies!} i think we needed more signage ~ i don't think that they were "stealing" seats ~ but, if they were, they got bounced!! i did what i was told to do ~ do i get a star sticker or smiley faced sticker for that????? nah ~ they gave me a few pieces of chocolate ~ divine reward indeed!!!

next, a few women came late {a lot actually, but i didn't count} ~ poor things got stuck in construction traffic! {can you believe that there would be construction traffic that would cause delays in the 'burgh??} well, they were very upset that there was no seat available for them in my "gold seats"  ~ see, we were told {by the ticket powers that be} that we should allow for x amount of seats in the "gold seats" section and they {the blessed ticket powers that be} said they sold x amount plus some ~ yikes!!

also, the seats/tickets weren't marked {like: Row 4 Seat 4} so, ladies sat as close to the front as possible & as close to the other dear ladies as i instructed them ~ see, i had a feeling that we would have some late comers and i didn't want too many people being disturbed by having someone step over them. who likes that??!!??

well, even with our very good planning {tx AB, LY, TB} i still had quite a few women yell at me that there was no where for them and the ladies in their party to sit. they were mAd. now, dude, i don't want to separate a mom and a daughter at an event that is for moms with their daughters!!! totally not groovy, right!!??!! so, i understood their plight and took action!

guess what happened??!!??

i bet you can't ~ i grabbed a mic and jumped up on the platform steps and gave a hello shout out and please in the name of our dear sweet Jesus can you shift your seats!! see, some rows had one seat on the one end and one seat on the other that were each empty ~ and as graciously as i could i asked them to shift down to help the sistas out ~ and they did ~ great job ladies!!! 'burgh hospitality at work!

 OK, so there still wasn't enough seats {remember the plus from above??} i had to move seats around. o baby, i was rockin' n a rollin' alright and in my sparkly high heels ~ 4 penny-sized blisters later and i am still smiling about the night!! i grabbed loose "general seats" and put them into the "gold seats" section.

*a funny* i was movin' around the seats and a dear older lady helped me and i "thanked her soo much for offering to help serve these other women" and she said ~ o, hunny no problem! well, insert foot into mouth ~ it was none other than evie!! i am so sorry to say, i didn't know who she was ~ she just laughed about that when i "officially" met her at the end of the night!! she rocks!!!

so, yeah, there i am ~ multi-award-winning artist rockin' on the stage n me movin' around chairs!! but hey, i drug some over and made room. everyone had their seats. tickets were not seat numbered so some rows had odd amounts of people in them. but hey, when we come as a group we are going to stay together ~ i totally get that and so did the gals who needed a seat. it became ~ all good.

*serious note* i got yelled at about this ~ apparently i made a few fire hazard moves. the isles got smaller. i thought it was the lesser of 2 evils ~ because the worst would have been to ask the "general seat" ladies to move back even further. i am sorry for making a few fire hazard moves. they paid for the "gold seats" i felt inclined to give them to them & never thought i was endangering someone ~ again, i am so very sorry.

Dear Jesus, i thank you that we didn't have a fire or another emergency that night. thank you for your protection ~ Amen!!

at the end of the night, i helped to clean up the sanctuary & the foyer. then the autograph lines went down and i went over to meet rebecca & evie. evie remembered me ~ i guess that is groovy :o) and i asked them each to sign my bible. they said yes, and i opened to the almost empty page and they each said "ruth graham signed your bible!!" and i said "the daughter". and they giggled. ~ i spoke to them separately as there were 2 autograph lines ~ one for each woman ~ so, i thought it was really funny that they each said the same thing and then giggled!!!

when i met ruth at our church years ago we hung out before her talk and after. she was so inspiring and at the end of the day, i confessed to her that prior to that day i had no idea who she was and she thought that was comical. i told her about how much i was blessed by her mom's writings and then she called herself ruth graham "the daughter". so that is what i lovingly call her. still moved & motivated by that sweet sister & i can say "the daughter" rocks too!!

so, those are my funnies about friday night ~ it was so great to see my sistas out in numbers fellowshipping and praising our God!!

*today ~ i was supposed to exercise with AK ~ but her lil one was ill-ish ~ so, we did it together alone! so, i spent the morning exercising, cooking lunch and baked a few cookies for the kiddos. then i blogged to you. tonight: family time ~ sign on door will read ~ do not disturb unless you need us ~ cuz we are chillin'!! *kidding ~ again*

God bless you sistas ~ i hope you have a great day ~ laurie kay