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We have a 5k sports fundraiser that started last year. about 1 week before the event, I got a call asking if I would donate a room for the timekeeper. Me: "Is it Kyle?" Her: "Yes." Me: "Tell him his room will be ready."
FF to this year. They have been posting on FB about this 5k for at least 6 weeks. No call about the room. Meanwhile I had a 2-night rez from a man from the "big city" 10 miles north of me for the room I usually assign to the timekeeper - my budget room. Kyle is vegan & guest who I had expected to cancel and did not is diabetic. Thursday I get the call, the race is Saturday so he is coming in Friday.
Saturday I also had the Mother/Daughter event at church at 10:30 (Mama does not drive any longer so had to go get her) .
Timekeeper has breakfast at 6:30 & always wants my Baked Oatmeal. Since he has told me he cannot eat a lot for breakfast but is REALLY hungry at 11, I put the rest of his half recipe into a container & send him off. Then I make a diabetic version for the guest. Meanwhile Himself has emerged and whines when he discovers there is no leftover Baked Oatmeal. Relax, I say, making another for the guest breakfast at 10.
I get back to the house at 9:50 (Mama waits in the car) so I can flip the oatmeal onto a platter. Himself has not emerged from his area to put fruit etc onto the table. Guest is firmly planted in chair at table.
There is a sherbet on his plate for him to spoon fruit into (can take just what he likes if there is a fruit he does not like or as much as he wants). He picks up the sherbet, sets it on the table, and puts the fruit dish onto his plate and proceeds to empty it (strawberries, kiwi, mango, & blackberries). I bring out the oatmeal topped with red raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. There is also a dish with a generous amount of vanilla Greek yogurt, 4 slices of bacon, and about 7 mini-muffins plus coffee. He is diabetic so no juice. Oh, also a pitcher of water.
I come home and there is nothing but empty dishes on the table. Himself is whining that he did not get any oatmeal. "He was an eating machine!", whined Himself. "He ate the entire loaf of oatmeal and everything else on the table. He could not finish the muffins so he reached over to his "care package, unzipped it, and added the muffins from the plate". With a half recipe, a couple usually leaves 1/2 to 1/3 of it on the platter to give an idea of how big the loaf was. The only thing left was the pitcher of water and a bit of cream in the cream pitcher.
He bought a mug and left dirty dishes. The timekeeper left me a 20 on the dresser.
FF to this year. They have been posting on FB about this 5k for at least 6 weeks. No call about the room. Meanwhile I had a 2-night rez from a man from the "big city" 10 miles north of me for the room I usually assign to the timekeeper - my budget room. Kyle is vegan & guest who I had expected to cancel and did not is diabetic. Thursday I get the call, the race is Saturday so he is coming in Friday.
Saturday I also had the Mother/Daughter event at church at 10:30 (Mama does not drive any longer so had to go get her) .
Timekeeper has breakfast at 6:30 & always wants my Baked Oatmeal. Since he has told me he cannot eat a lot for breakfast but is REALLY hungry at 11, I put the rest of his half recipe into a container & send him off. Then I make a diabetic version for the guest. Meanwhile Himself has emerged and whines when he discovers there is no leftover Baked Oatmeal. Relax, I say, making another for the guest breakfast at 10.
I get back to the house at 9:50 (Mama waits in the car) so I can flip the oatmeal onto a platter. Himself has not emerged from his area to put fruit etc onto the table. Guest is firmly planted in chair at table.
There is a sherbet on his plate for him to spoon fruit into (can take just what he likes if there is a fruit he does not like or as much as he wants). He picks up the sherbet, sets it on the table, and puts the fruit dish onto his plate and proceeds to empty it (strawberries, kiwi, mango, & blackberries). I bring out the oatmeal topped with red raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. There is also a dish with a generous amount of vanilla Greek yogurt, 4 slices of bacon, and about 7 mini-muffins plus coffee. He is diabetic so no juice. Oh, also a pitcher of water.
I come home and there is nothing but empty dishes on the table. Himself is whining that he did not get any oatmeal. "He was an eating machine!", whined Himself. "He ate the entire loaf of oatmeal and everything else on the table. He could not finish the muffins so he reached over to his "care package, unzipped it, and added the muffins from the plate". With a half recipe, a couple usually leaves 1/2 to 1/3 of it on the platter to give an idea of how big the loaf was. The only thing left was the pitcher of water and a bit of cream in the cream pitcher.
He bought a mug and left dirty dishes. The timekeeper left me a 20 on the dresser.
