A Little Bit of Nothing

No big topic today; just random spewing of thoughts. Weekend's over. Unfortunately, mine was mostly a "working" weekend, so I didn't really get one at all. We went to a wedding, had my dad's 50th birthday party on Saturday and Debbie and I spoke at all the Masses trying to convince people that Jr. High kids aren't that bad. It must have worked, because we got tons more people than we ever expected to volunteer to help us out next year. We're not sure if it was our jubilant personalities or if it was my cleavage! We had a running joke all day that every time I bent forward more people came to sign up. Actually, I was not dressed well for the occasion at all. I had to keep pulling up my shirt and I was wearing a flippy skirt on a windy day! Not very good planning. Oh, well. No matter what the cause, we are very pleased and excited about the response that we received. Now, we have to figure out what to do with all these people! But in our business, that's a really good problem to have.

I think that most of you who read this know that Mr. Happy is our neighbor. For any of you who don't know, Mr. Happy is the guy who hangs out on the corner of Sahara and Fort Apache wearing crazy out-fits and playing a 2-stringed guitar. A lot of people think that he's a total nut job, but he's actually a very nice and quiet neighbor. (He never violates our CC&Rs. :) ) Two indie film makers have actually made a movie about him. I believe that there is a screening of it at the end of the month. Anyway, here's my point: a few people who know that he is our neighbor are encouraging us to invite him to our party because they are totally intrigued by him. I would love to invite him, but we aren't "friends". I don't want to hurt his feelings by inviting him because he is "famous" or so he can entertain people. We won't be inviting anyone else in the neighborhood (I don't even know the people who live next door!). Am I being way too sensitive? Should we invite Mr. Happy? What do you think?

Our home improvement projects are gaining speed. We have a new kitchen table coming on Wednesday and hopefully we'll have new flooring installed late next week. Yippee!

I am starting to become aware of a topic in my life that is really causing me angst. I am troubled by my perception that some young people are not growing into who I thought they would be. Maybe it's just my disappointment in the choices and seeming disinterest of people that I thought I had a good influence on once upon a time. I don't want to admit or know that people I love may have gone down different paths and that perception might be reality. I just can't believe that a glorified life of money, alcohol, loose women and hot-headedness is ok for someone that I love. How can someone see how awful another person's behavior and lifestyle is and still hang around them? Will they never understand the saying, "You tell on yourself by the company you keep"? How many times does someone have to prove that they are bad news? Even more disturbing is seeing someone who has experienced abuse from another start to head down the same road as the person who hurt them. It's as if every life lesson from childhood and adolescence has been erased and the person standing in front of me is someone that I don't recognize and am not sure that I want to know. Hopefully, it's all a phase that I don't think I ever went through and all it takes is time. That's not much consolation right now, especially when all I want is to see good lives and good choices. But, I guess everyone has to live their own life and make their own mistakes. I can't protect anyone from experience no matter how hard I try.