NYE fail

Jett and I have been volunteering a lot at our new home. It is a good way to meet our neighbors and is fun, too. Mostly. Cleanup from the Thanksgiving dinner was a lot of work – over 2 hours. Prepping for the New Year’s Eve dinner (mostly preparing the 240 baked potatoes) was only about an hour. Decorating for NYE – both taking down the Christmas decorations and putting up the New Year’s Eve decorations – was in the middle at about 90 minutes. My primary contribution was putting up the shiny gold foil backdrop on the stage where the band would play. That was an hour spent on the ladder, pressing the self-stick backing to the wall. It looked great when I finished.

It didn’t look so great yesterday when I poked my head into the ballroom. It had all fallen down.

Epic fail.

Somebody put it back up, with stickpins, so it looks good again. But it still feels like a fail to me.