I’M TIRED but HAPPY
This weekend has been a doozy, and I want to first thank three people who made this weekend completely and totally possible.
Karel, Erica, and Alex!
It started on friday when I picked up Karel from work at 1pm so that I could get to the middle school where I was going to be Dj-ing a Cancer Society walk-a-thon. You heard it, 18 hours of music, walking and raising money. I want to give a cheers for the two other people were able to stay up the entire time besides me. I also want to send cheers to the teenagers who kept me awake during the night. They took turns, so they all got some type of sleep but teenagers are fun when they think your cool. And they liked me.
I pulled off an excellent event, as far as the music and keeping it fun was concerned. We did such favorites as our Survivor game, which is a version of musical chairs,(and no you don’t get to hear the rest) the macarena, chicken dance, hokey pokey, and the electric slide. I played everything from mild rap, to rock, to dance, to country. And it’s a good thing I have alot of music, because I used up alot of it in 18 hours. Except for sore legs from doing crunches the whole time while moving from my chair to the table when I changed cd’s I was pretty pleased with the results.
I left at 11am on Saturday and got home by 12. To which I promptly fell asleep for two hours before it was time to get ready to leave for a wedding reception held at Linfield College in McMinneville. Here is where the Fam comes in, they let me sleep, they shut down the house so I could sleep, Karel was fantastic in giving me the help I needed to get me off to my next event once I woke up. I wouldn’t have been able to make it without their help on saturday. I was pretty out of it.
I got to my event at Linfield at 4:30pm and we were going by 6:30pm. This was a great crowd, very laid back and they partied pretty good. I probably would have gotton a couple of hours of overtime ($100/hr) if it wasn’t for the fact that the college wanted me out by 11pm. I had enough energy from the reception to cover me for the ride home.
By the time I was home, I was beyond tired, sore (the body was stiff from driving for an hour after all the dancing for the last two days,) and loopy. I promptly fell asleep and the next thing I know it’s time to get up and ready for church. The kids got themselves ready and didn’t need any coaching or reminding from me. They helped me gather my stuff and keep it together when my brain shut down. Church was quiet and went by just fine. I had a neat class and heard some things I want to talk about, but that will wait for another post. I got home and found that I couldn’t go to sleep. UGH! So I’m posting.
When you get to an event as emotional as the Cancer Society’s walkathon, and people are talking about their dead relatives, being on the emotional verge before getting there is not a good thing. I was in tears for every testimonial, song and prayer for a loved one. Now true, I haven’t had anyone die from Cancer yet who was close to me, but I am going through a divorce from the person I loved most and so I just balled. I also had plenty of time to feel like a complete and utter moron. You have nothing else but pondering left to do when your playing music all night. And when you play country, it’s even worse. I can’t believe the clues I over-looked because I didn’t want them to mean what they meant, and I had this stupid thing called trust for my husband.
This is where I thank the next group of people who mean something to me. My chat buds from Yahoo’s religion room 2. They all have said some wonderfully nice things to me over the last few days and weeks and I just want to especially thank, Frock, Belly, Kb, Sparky, Shiva, Truthis, Geo, Winddancer, and a few others who know who you are…When I felt my most stupid this weekend while pondering my life, your bits of encouragement let me get a grip. You’ve seen me posting for almost two years now and you guys know me, you know what I am and your the balance I need to keep from feeling like a complete moron now that I know what’s been going on.
All right, sappy stuff is over. 
I’m proud of where I am with the choices I have made, and I have alot of things to look forward to. Someone told me they felt I was the kind of person who would be good to talk to across the kitchen table when we were eighty. Even though the person was just being nice and supportive, it made me feel good to hear.
Ok, so sappy stuff isn’t over. 
So thank you FAMILY for helping me get through this weekend, and thank you Buds for helping me not feel stupid.
All in all, I had a great time this weekend,and I handed out a load of business cards. I’m tired but happy and pleased with my efforts this weekend. Now, time for bed.
