Greetings from the cave!

Monday 3:45PM

Blaine's new employer e-mails request for Blaine to sign paperwork and fax it back on Tuesday

6:00PM

Blaine prints and signs said paperwork and asks if I can find someone who will let me use their fax so we don't have to spend $5 faxing papers (again)

Tuesday 8:00AM

Kristi's facebook status : Can I use your fax machine?

Tuesday 3:00PM

The overwhelming response to Kristi's facebook status: Get out from under a rock. Who still uses fax machines? Just scan it.

Kristi has no scanner.

Jody says I can use her fax

Kids are sleeping

Tuesday 5:00PM

Kids are screaming

Tuesday 9:00PM

Email to Jody: can I use your fax tomorrow morning?

Wednesday 8:00AM

Email from new employer: Hello, send me your fax!

10:00AM

Email from Blaine: Hello sugar lump of love. Have I told you how skinny you look? Oh and also could you please send the fax...like NOW?

Kristi is busy at the sprinkler park, and going to lunch with Ralphie

1:00PM

Kristi receives email from Blaine + 2 other similarly worded emails from Blaine. He's starting to sweat it.

Kristi emails Blaine: Don't sweat it, I'll do it! Swear. After Ben's nap


5:00PM

Wow, Bentley is taking the worlds longest nap.

5:30PM

Call from Jody: Um, it has been 36 hours since you said you were coming and I actually do have a life and have to go somewhere. (note: she said this way nicer, like "if you still need the fax I can wait for you to come!")

I decided I may as well just wait for Blaine since he would be home soon and no sense lugging three children around, so I was going to miss Jody, but Jeannie said she had a scanner I could use, and I would be sending it to California, so I still had an hour and a half until business hours were over.

5:45PM

Go to Jeannie's

6:00PM

Can't get Jeannie's scanner to work. Looks like I will need to fork over the money to kinko's. Darn. But wait! Jeannie has a friend who has a fax (who coincidentally lives next door to Jody) and who is out of town but Jeannie has the keys!

6:13PM

Me, Jeannie + Jeannie's posterity, who are fevered and not feeling well, climb in the car.

6:17PM

We break into Jeannie's friends house

6:23PM

We break Jeannie's friends fax machine

6:30PM

We try to fix Jeannie's friends fax machine

6:35PM

We explore Jeannie's friends house looking for a scanner

6:37PM

We see strange man in Jeannie's friends backyard stealing her pool toys, except they were his pool toys, he is just a neighbor.

6:40PM

We marvel at how nice Jeannie's friend is to leave her home open for all to enjoy while she is out of town

6:42PM

I start panicking because I only have twenty minutes left and kinkos is far away. We run to the car.

6:43 PM

Jeannie breaks her friends garage door

6:45 PM

Jeannie fixes door

6:50 PM

I call everyone I know to see if I can use their fax

6:53 PM

Jeannie calls everyone she knows to see if we can use their fax

6:58 PM

Screech into Tammy's driveway

6:59 PM

Break down Tammy's front door and demand her husband fax the paper RIGHT NOW!

7:00 PM

sigh of relief

7:01 PM

Drop off Jeannie and Co

7:02PM

Run out of gas en route to gas station.

Just kidding, but it was scary and for future reference, when your car says that it has 0 miles left to empty, it's just kidding. It still has a tiny bit of gas in there, but I don't know how much.

Thanks Jeannie for the wild ride! The things I do to save $5!