Christmas cards just shouldn't be this hard.

I managed to make it through signing my christmas cards so far spelling my name correctly.

Unlike last year when I addressed an envelope TO MYSELF. I actually thought while I was stuffing the card in "Man I hardly see that Fogspinner much, wonder what she's up to?"

...Dumbass...

My plan to leave home at 10 am is foiled. I know this, even though it is 8:30, because I am still sitting here hacking up a bleeding lung and no one in my family other than the dogs and myself are up. Why is no one else up, because I can't get my fat ass out of the chair to wake them up that's why.

We have to make a run to fortuna before we can leave since my ever helpful husband took one of my paychecks to work with him in his car rather than leaving it.. ohh I don't know... on my FREAKING desk.

We have to figure out how to fit 1400 milk samples in my car. Whoopie. Everyone pray... pray HARD... that no one hits me on the way to Atwater. Because, well, ewww?!?!?

Sheesh finally.

This is part three so it starts in the middle of the skit.

Oh hell. Here he is with Peanut.
I'm trying to find a decent one that has the skit with Jalapeño on a Stick.

I'm sitting here with tears streaming down my face. I'd forgotten how much I like him.

Ok we're going to try to embed this video because I LOVE this comedian. Never mind the fact that he's an amazing ventriloquist, this is one of the ONLY things that will make me drop whatever I am doing to watch the tv.

For those keeping score the breakdown looks like this:
California (for as many breeders that are here) only has 18 judges total.
3 have asked not to asked to judge our fair.
2 (so far) are moving out of the state
1 was our judge last year
1 is not responging to e-mail
2 don't judge "piddley events" but I'm going to hit them up anyway
4 I haven't contacted yet
1 is a last resort because people won't show is she judges
3 must be reached by phone
2 e-mails are still out

Oregon has 7 judges.
1 is no longer a judge in '08
1 (so far) will be out of the country
1 (so far is booked)
2 are call only
2 left to e-mail

Options are quickly running short. We may have to have the same judges we had last year or at least one of them and people will just have to suck it up. There are only so many options. I guess we could cut back to one show and then have double the money to spend on the judge. Yeah I see that going over like a lead balloon.

I'm e-mailing people in batches on the off chance someone says Yes. At this point I would probably fall out of my chair if someone said "Hey yeah I'm available."

I'm beginning to see why our fair sec. seems to be such a flake.
I'm thinking it's not her. Well ok, some of it IS her. Some of it is this shit:

I've contact 9 judges who are within our "area". Travel to get a judge here has to be reasonable enough for the show to stay afloat. So far 6 of those judges are either a) moving out of the state (which means an even harder time next year) b) out of the country or c) booked (only one so far).

I have three left for our Sec to try calling, because it's useless for me to call them since she can talk money and I can't.

That 12 judges total in an acceptable traveling distance and half are not available. Shit. I haven't even started on the rabbit judges yet.