Event planning

I seem to find myself doing a lot of event planning this year. First Fawn's fundraiser followed by my 10 year vow renewal. In April a Junior League event and now in June an airline reunion. Lastly I just volunteered to help with my 25yr high school reunion as well. Hmmm why do I do this? These events are quite time intensive and yet I still find myself volunteering to do them. I'm not sure what the appeal is to me. I contemplate this often. It's not the time commitment because I definitely could do with less time involved activities. It's not the organizing because I definitely could be doing more productive things like organizing my house.

 I think when it comes down to it I really just enjoy getting people together. Events are excuses to see people and to spend time with people I would maybe not see otherwise. Well if that's the case why should I care to see them if I never seem them anyway? that's a good question. I honestly don't know any answer. Yes there are people that I never see or rarely see, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy seeing them when I do see them. It's just a fact of life that we can only have so many relationships of any substance in our lives at any given time. There is just not enough hours in our day to dedicate to lots of good relationships. However I do enjoy seeing people from my past or friends who are more like acquaintances or even people I barely know but yet enjoy their company.

So I guess this is why I do these events. Life is about experiences and memories. Events create memories and I enjoy that. So next time I am contemplating planning an event. Most likely I will say yes and.here I go again.

Food? Is it really necessary?

I had an insanely busy May and as a result didn't post at all.  Just too much busyness to even write at this point.
In the month of May I not only had this insane schedule but I was dealing with stomach issues. This has been going on since March but is becoming progressively worse over time. I had an endoscopy which basically is a scope that goes down your throat (you are slightly sedated) and checks out your esophagus, small intestine and stomach. My results came back with inflammation in my stomach. As the month continued on my episodes were getting worse and closer together. I told my doctor and he sent me in for a gastric emptying study. This required me to eat a radioactive egg sandwich with grape jelly. Then every hour for 4 hours they took a photo of my stomach as it was digesting. No results yet and my episodes still rage on. Since food is aggravating my problems I figure I should just go without until we get this resolved. I mean is food really necessary? I can get all my fruits, vegetables, proteins from liquids can't I? At this rate I don't even miss food because I look at it and think is eating this worth getting sick and my answer is also nope! So it's funny how at first you miss it but as time goes on you just say I don't need that and you carry on.