Life isn't easy... charities help.

My brother was overseas and had to get home to urgently attend to a family member. He couldn't get a flight. Guess who stepped in to help? The Red Cross. They got him a flight... for free.

Just thought that was pertinent, considering the topic.

A Day in the Life of a Part-Time Executive Director

7:40AM - Wake up
7:50AM - Shower
8:00AM - Get dressed
8:15AM - Drive to local elementary school, unload borrowed sporting goods, carry into gym
8:30AM - Drive home, swap truck with car, change shirt
8:45AM - Make copies of Primo's Prevention Pig Out flyer at library
9:00AM - Drive to Main Street in Newark, Delaware
9:30AM - Ask local businesses to sign up or help find competitors for hoagie eating contest
12:30PM - Get phone call from board member reminding me of a meeting at 2:00PM
1:00PM - Try to remember where the car was parked
1:15PM - Find car, drive to Middletown
1:30PM - Grab lunch at Wawa, gobble it down, nearly choke to death on a pickle
1:45PM - Arrive early for meeting - underdressed - begin putting together report to give at meeting
2:00PM - Meeting begins
2:45PM - Fire alarm sounds, evacuate to parking lot
3:15PM - Fire alam investigated, meeting resumes
4:00PM - Meeting ends, begin drive home to Smyrna
4:15PM - Call best friend (on hands free speakerphone in car)
4:30PM - Arrive home, lay down for "a few minutes"
6:30PM - Hubby wakes me up, says, "Can you PLEEEEEASE watch the kids so I can cut the grass?"
7:00PM - Clueless as to what to make for dinner, order pizza, send hubby to pick it up
7:15PM - Do dishes
8:00PM - Plan Dave & Nate's birthday party, reserve camp site
8:30PM - Bedtime for the kiddies!
9:00PM - Watch Tivo'd Celebrity Apprentice and read BoingBoing
9:30PM - Blog
10:30PM - Bed