Where Have I Been?

Short answer...everywhere!

I haven't blogged in a month. It's been a crazy month full of exciting events: softball/blast ball, dancing, graduation and babies, baby!

A lot of those events involved my local granddaughters. The older one is in the beginning softball stages where they get 5 attempts to hit the ball and the coach does the pitching. Once we figured out she really isn't a lefty she started getting some hits. I predict a lot of time at softball fields in my future. The younger one played blast ball where you hit from a tee, run to first base and step on a base that has a blast from a horn....hence the name. It was her very first season so we'll see if theres a future in it...either way lots of softball hair in the future.

The dancing involved the same two girls. A recital for both and yesterday a talent show for the oldest. See prediction about softball....

Graduation....ahhh graduation. What can I say. I have a love/hate relationship with graduation. This was my second year to be "she who is in charge of graduation" at my school. Much easier than the first for two reasons, experience is the best teacher and I have the best boss in the world. He got out of my way and just let me do my thing. The only major hitch was nothing I could have foreseen/prevented. When it was finished I went home and slept the sleep of the just or the sleep of someone who had only gotten three hours of sleep of the previous 24. Either way...I slept. But I love it and hate it because while it's the celebration of hard work and the achievements of our graduates it means saying goodbye to some pretty awesome young people, but I have to remember next fall means the introduction of a new batch of awesome young people.

My other graduation was older granddaughter kindergarten graduation. I watched her sit on stage with her legs crossed like a young lady and my heart just broke at the thought that she's not a baby anymore. But she's an incredible little girl and I can't wait to see what the future holds for her. Next year 1st grade and pre-k for her little sister. (Memo to me...find out principal's favorite cookies....)

Now the babies, a new niece and a new nephew. New niece is a first baby for her parents and first grandchild my parents have in the same town...I predict spoiled, but in a totally adorable way. And the new nephew is the last baby for his parents, I predict same. I would say they saved the best for last but he's got some pretty freaking awesome older brothers and sisters. His oldest sister posted junior prom pics last week-end. Go back and re-read part of granddaughters graduation and apply here... Also, new nephews mommy gave us quite a scare, but Jesus is the Great Healer and it's all good now.

And to update last blog post...job still up in the air but it's more which campus will I work on instead of will I have a job. So not as stressed there. And we still haven't had a bad fire nearby but we haven't had more than .05" of rain either. However, I don't obsess about it like I was.

Next up...summer hours. Four 10 hour days and three days off. Also, a wedding, a birthday and an anniversary.

Karma and my Lucky Day

I'm a firm believer in karma.  What you give out you get back.  How you treat others is how you're going to be treated.  However you want to word it, I am a firm believer in it.  Most of the time I think about it in negative connotations.  As in, the person that got me will eventually get got.  The most obvious example I have of this is a woman I know who at one time sued someone for something that she knowingly participated in.  But the other person did break some ethical and moral rules so she had grounds....but she really didn't.  She was mad and wanted the other person to pay.  She won a good sum of money.  Several months later another person stole the money from her.  I'm not sure what happened to him, but in my book it was a clear case of karma.

What I don't think about often is the good that comes back to people.  If you put out negative and you get negative then it reasonably follows that if you put out positive, you get it right back.  It may not be today and it may not be tomorrow, but eventually, you'll get it. 

A few weeks ago we had a basketball tournament at my school.  I willingly volunteered my time that week-end to help out and I had to buy a $45 ticket to pay for the privilege to do that.  I did it with little complaining (and by a little complaining I mean less than everybody else - I did gripe about it a little bit.)  But I was there.  Two of the booths set up there had raffles.  One group was raffling off chocolate.  (Never underestimate the power of free chocolate.  Seriously) The other group was raffling off an iPad.  The chocolate was a free raffle, so it was no big deal.  I wrote my name and number down and went off to support the team I was hosting.  A little while later my husband calls me.  I won the chocolate.  Sweet!  The funny thing is..he put his name in 4 or 5 times.  And I won it with my one little ticket.  Yay me!!  But then hubby tries to steal it from me. 

High off my win of the chocolate (and the sugar, obviously) I decided that with that kind of luck I was going to buy $5 worth of raffle tickets for the iPad.  What the heck, right?  I was so sure I wasn't going to win it that I left my tickets at the house when we stopped by there before the awards banquet.  We live close by so I ran back to get them, but I almost didn't.  The time comes to draw the raffle.  My numbers were 429-434.  So if I didn't see 43 then I was probably out.  They call out 4-2 and then start back at 4 because this was a deaf basketball tournament and someone was writing it on a white board.  So they start again.  4-2-9.  Wait, what?  No way!  I won the iPad.  I became an insta-celebrity.  I give my hubby the chocolates.  One woman bought $140 worth of raffle tickets.  Seriously? 

Several people told me I should have gone straight from there to buy a lottery ticket, but I wasn't feeling it anymore.

Here's where the karma comes in.  I work my rear-end off at extra-curricular things.  Often paying for the privilege to do so.  Now, if it's something like the Christmas party or end of year softball game or something - minor stuff.  The odds of me showing up are slim.  Usually I've got a dr's appointment or a migraine or something. But the major stuff.  I'm there.  Other people, not so much.  They're there as long as they're required to be and that's it.  I don't get a lot of atta-girls from the bosses.  But last year I won 80 something dollars at our big 5 year celebration.  This year I win an iPad.  And chocolate.  Good karma. 

But now that I recognize it, I will never win anything at a school function again.  Oh well.  That's alright.