what a day it was, when stephanie, kim and i first laid eyes on "the bottom of the box." now to all of you not at lagniappe - the pure wonder of this might escape you, but let me try and explain.

a while ago andy gave a cardboard box to stephanie full of papers to be sorted. that on the surface seems like an easy enough task - not to terribly complicated and we get to be inside in air conditioning, but looks can be deceiving. this box, which became the vain of our existance at lagniappe, contained enough files (unorganized that is) to sink the titanic.

here are just a few of the lovely files that we found:
1. a whopping 19 files labled "Home Depot"
2. a file labled "stuff" - thank you andy for your clarity
3. a file entitled receipts (where, when and with who were these purchased.... we don't know). also in this file.... titles, tax information... you name it!
4. our personal favorite..."file" why thank you captain obvious, i think i might get another shirt made for all the girl interns that says "girl" just to clarify for any future confusion.

ok, so now you have just a slight clue of the mass chaos that this box contained - it began to mock us. everyday we passed by the box and began to work on it, its enormity laughed in our face. taunting us - saying "you cant get to the bottom of me - im too big for you"

so we plugged away, day after day. labeling, filing, sorting, tossing - labeling, filing, sorting, tossing - labeling, filing, sorting, and tosssing. that was the entirity of our lives. (note our ascending vocal pitch should be heard in these words)

tuesday - day of days - from the crows nest stephanie shouted down to me "what ho...ahead i see a shining sliver of cardboard. can it be?? the bottom of the box?????" 48 hours later, 16 cups of coffee later, 1 trip to slidell (for a new cabinet), 2 trips to walmart, and hospital saliene drip (6000 cc) - kim lost it for a little bit there and we had to take her in - we accomplished the mamouth task set before us!!!!!

at the unveiling of the empty box/filing cabinet (aka lagniappe masterpiece) andy, kim, jean, stephanie and i all gathered held hands and sang the doxology - i do believe i saw a solitary tear trickle down jean's cheek.

the journey has come to an end!