Of apples and lemons

Yesterday morning Sabahat and I volunteered at the Hunger Task Force for the kick off of the Letter Carriers of Milwaukee Stamp Out Hunger food drive. 5:30 AM rolled around waaaaaaaay too early for me. It was stormy all through the night, and i woke up to see lightning flashing behind the blinds, and thunder, and lots of rain, and lay there having visions of my soaking wet in a food suit. but, when i got up, it had stopped.

so down at the food bank, we picked out our costumes. the polish sausage and cow were already spoken for, so i settled for the apple, and sabahat took the lemon. it really was a pretty funny sight. they sent us out to the fence which borders the 94 and we waved to the commuters. it was just us 2 for awhile but then we were joined by some grapes and a raisin, who turned out to be two scary dudes just out of prison doing some community service. they were telling us how they are bad people who shoot other people. ok. that was pretty creepy. luckily their parole officer was there to keep them in line!!!

by then we were joined by another set of grapes, the polish sausage and the cow, and Mr. Pig from Piggly Wiggly. We were quite the sight. Well, then it started to rain. hard. so we ran inside. ate some krispy kremes. (total for the day=3 OUCH!) and we met Gus from Fox 6. Sabahat was really excited about this.

it really wouldn't have been that bad if it were warmer and we were drier. we had to be there for the press conference, where some mailman from green bay who is the wisconsin letter carriers ambassador sang some usps.com songs for us. uhm.....weird. then this lady played her bagpipes for us. then the county exec said some stuff about how we need to collect more food than buffalo, then some dude from the governors office read a declaration about how the food drive is officially on. and then we left.

had a working lunch meeting with marty and bob and deb. didn't get much accomplished. i actually dozed off for a bit. whoops!! haha.

what a crazy day.