So here is tonight's banquet update: (aren't you all glad I have this to whine about)
So when I was asked to just ORGANIZE this it was on the NO PROBLEM, easy plan.
1. Rent the school
2. Call the Caterers we usually use.
3. Throw up a few cheap decorations left over from all the other ones.
So here is what has happened so far:
1. School rental fee has DOUBLED--can't afford it. Have to do it at the pool which means we need to find free tables and chairs and tents. PIA
2. Can't afford the caterers. Fundraising has been bad this year, so we have basically no budget. And also found out no one really liked their food anyway (I thought it was just me
)
3. Having it at the pool means LOTS more decor to be done and the coach wants a totally new theme anyway. That means $$$$--see #2--no budget.
4. I call the place we get our helium tank from. Get it there every year. "We have always done it that way". NO PROBLEM
They don't rent Helium tanks anymore as of a few months ago
Have to find a new place.
5. Search high and low for a food option we can afford (can't do potluck, lazy arses at the pool refuse to throw beanie weanies in a crockpot). Fazoli's gives me their catering menu and prices are GREAT! Everyone is happy. I do the deal with them 2 weeks ago. Go in today to finalize things and talk to the store General Manager instead of the other Manager I was working with.
She informs me that all the prices on the Catering Menu THEY GAVE ME--are WRONG. BY ABOUT HALF. 
I have based my entire budget on those prices. I sold the tix. to the banquet on those prices.
NO WAY in hell am I paying what she is telling me she has to charge me. Flat out can not afford it. I am about to have a heart attack. Wondering if I can make huge pots of spaghetti and pans of lasagna from Costco at home for 200 in time for the banquet. I want to puke.
We stonewall for a few minutes while I inform her that I am very sorry that there was a miscommunication but I did everything correctly on MY part and that this is her problem. She finally agrees to go ahead and give me everything but the lasagne at the cheaper prices. She is probably basically dontating about $500 worth of food to us.
I don't even want to know what is going to go wrong next. I am on my way upstairs to watch TV and cut out 50 paper flip flops for the no budget centerpieces.
AND I AM DRINKING!!!!
The drive shouldn't be a big deal except for some sleepiness that I'm still having, I guess from the meds I'm on. I'm way better than couple days ago.
). But yes, getting away will be good. 
I've had some that, after two doses of the meds, have left me still hurting so bad that dying seems like a better option (and no, I'm not really doing to that). 
