Four CRAZY Days

It's almost like Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights, but half of that, and it was mostly days.

I was asked by one of my non-profit clients to make a DVD to be shown at their 40th Anniversary gala (this Saturday night), highlighting their mission. Robins' Nest is an organization in South Jersey whose mission is to make sure that every child has a permanent, safe and loving home. The video is chock full of adorable faces (one with an actual tear running down his cheek) just begging to be loved, cared for, and protected (one of the voiceovers in the movie).

I loved this project -- I love the organization -- I love the idea of helping children. What I don't love is the movie-making software that kept locking my computer up every 22 seconds and sending me into a downward-spiraling combination of depression, desperation, and despair. As the hours ticked by and I got no closer to completing this job, I alternated between crying, yelling, cursing, holding my head up by the roots of my hair and curling into such a tight, silent ball, a fetus would be jealous.

Alas, in the proverbial 11th hour, just as my gem of a husband predicted, logic (or is that luck?) prevailed and I solved the Rubik's Cube of all video dilemmas and got the DVD into a FedEx envelope, just in time for my "boyfriend-in-blue" to sweep her away and deliver her gently into the hands of my anxious clients first thing tomorrow morning.

I know this has nothing to do with the kitchen remodel... but it has everything to do with why I haven't posted any "after" pictures. I've been too busy noodling on the appropriate combination of prescription medications to consume, had this whole video thing not worked out.

I want to give a shout out (ok, I want to give thanks - it's not like anyone actually reads my blog) to my wonderful daughters & nieces, husband and my neighbor's adorable son who did voiceovers for the video. They were all wonderful -- even "32-take Steve" who laughed more than he read. But that is what made me fall for him in the first place.

I'm posting the MPEG version of the video at the bottom of the screen... It's a wildly crappy version of the real movie... but what do you want for an "MPEG?"