It's Sunday night.

What a week it has been! I think it took me until Friday to get over being really angry about my "situation". I won't go in to details, but suffice it to say, after working with a group of parents, to organize a grade 7 Christmas lunch, I had to decide to take the high road and walk away. I think the hardest part wasn't the actual behaviour of the people, but my inability to react to the behaviour. I realize that with my job comes responsibility and I can't afford to react to many situations in the way my personality would lead me. I am a fighter by nature. I don't back down easily and I never get bullied around, but sometimes, it's just not worth it. This group of parents were downright nasty, gossipy, back talking, back stabbing, manipulative and then involving their children, which then involved my child and I was angry.
The wrap up of this for me was when I walked in to the Worship Center while Paul was preaching and the point he was talking about... "Don't quarrel over pointless things." It made me think that I walked away because of my job, and not wanting my anger to connect back to the church, when in fact, I should have walked away because it's what God wants me to do. I am not as godly as some of you think I am!
Now, amidst all the drama, there was a significant highlight this week! I was able to sit rinkside with Trevor Linden, have a chat and have him sign my brother's Linden jersey! I have been carrying around my brother's Linden jersey for years to get it signed and there have been many close calls, but it's never worked out - until Tuesday. Through a connection with the Giants I found out he was on the ice with the Giants for a practice and the jersey was finally signed. I told him my story of how long I've been carrying the thing around for and how many close calls I'd had, and he laughed, saying "I was probably the most accessible Canuck they ever had!" True - but elusive to me! Anyways, I will be the star of our family Christmas this year!
I'm trying to think what else I had to update about.... oh, the bucket list. I'm not done yet - I'm trying to put more thought in to this one than the last one, so it's taking longer.
I think that's about it for now.
Oh ya, I had lunch with the "slightly looney" family again today. I think it's fair to say, that their status can be updated from "slightly" to "full blown". They love each other, some of them love me and my kids (we'll give the others time to discover that we are probably crazier than they are!), and they make me laugh :)