Warning: Long rambling post... I survived the "Survivor" scrapathon. It was exhausting and fun most of the time. I didn't get as many pages done as I had hoped (never do!), but the event raised over $47k for the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation so that was cool. It was very well run. Food was good mix of junk and healthy stuff bringing out different stuff every 2-3 hours. I did made reasonably healthy choices most of the time - even passed on the 3am hot dogs & popcorn! I did drink a lot of water, but also soda most of the night using the sugar and the caffeine to stay awake. Other than the very loud, live band at the beginning (best I can say is they were very enthusiastic!) the rest of the music was good. There were 5 masseuse available for 15 minute massages from 7pm - 3am. (Heaven! I had 3 at 8:15p, 11p, and 2am!) There were too many rah, rah games though. With all of that, it turns out it wasn't really 24 hours of scrap time. Here's a quick snapshot of the weekend:
9am - event starts at LSS w/ with breakfast, silent auction and purchases (of course!)
11am -finally get to the event site, met the other 5 members of our table/tribe. Had to "decorate" island sign and a couple of paint can swap things (hmmm, ok, I can handle a bit of rah, rah in the beginning...)
12pm - kick off and motivational speakers who were good
1pm - finally started to pull out my scrap stuff and then it was time for lunch
2pm - started my first page, Various games, make & takes, snack/dinner breaks, etc throughout the afternoon and evening that my 3 friends and I participated in or chose to ignore, no big deal.
11pm - last starbucks run. My tablemate brought me a 6 pump mocha. I don't generally drink coffee, so I had no problem staying awake for the rest of the night!
1:30am - Table mutiny! We decided we had had enough of the rah, rah games and we simply would not particpate in those any more. We were here to scrap. Our island hostess was a little miffed, but she got over it.
2:30am - spontaneous conga line erupts - fun with 175 women, a little punchy from lack of sleep.
3am - Kareoke -This was the lowlight of the event for me. A couple of people were pretty good, most were bad, and some were really, really bad. I put on DH's noise-cancelling headphones and turned the iPod ALL the way up.
5am - pickle eating contest - why did I do this???
7am - everyone is packing up (Isn't this supposed to go until 9am??)
7:30am - start of closing speakers - money raised, prizes awarded, etc.
By the time you subtract the lost 5 hours on the front end, 2 hours on the backend, the heavenly massages, eating time, and rah,rah stuff, it was a lot closer to 12-13 hours of real scrap time. It was a good event, but next time I think I'll just write a check to the Komen foundation and go someplace else to scrap for the weekend.
WI Saturday morning was 163.0 and Monday morning was 164.5. I lot of this is water from major weekend salk intake (did I mention the pickle eating contest?), so hopefully it will flush out pretty quickly. Where I am really slipping is exercise. I am really going to have to work hard to make up some time.
Have a great week everyone. I'll catch up on journals in the next couple of days.
Anna
And I'll be fat and bloated too.
. He was gone all day on Saturday and then had work stuff to do all day on Sunday. He got last weekend for himself because next weekend is going to be all mine - 24 hour Survivor Scrapathon! 
Wonder what those 3am pages are going to look like .... 
I'm no longer a bunco virgin. 
But, dh got me out last night for a walk and you know, it felt really great. You can do it!!!!!
. It was shortened, but at least it was something. 
that are not my thing. I told DH I'm taking his iPod and his Noise Cancelling headphones - "Leave me alone in the cone of silence and just let me scrap!" I'm just looking forward to 24 hours all by myself (with 175 other people I don't know!)
TOM can be a real pain especially when it comes to the numbers on the scale. 
That's great that you were able to get some exercise in! 
