04-17-25 so much positivity
I was up silly early, but managed to get back to sleep and take my time getting into the office this morning. I got some work done and then headed to my mom’s to drop off her birthday gift in anticipation of her opening it with Ashlée and having Ashlée hang it in her apartment. It was a photo of the turtles that Ashlée had taken that I very much love and knew Mom would like too.
The Rotary lunch was especially fun as Judy brought birthday cupcakes because her birthday is on Sunday and she is the person who announces all of the birthdays and anniversaries. She called out the birthdays in this next week and called all of us the power five., Beth Bennett, Carol, myself, Lallah and Judy. We are definitely five women who are very involved with the organization. I am proud to be in their company. It was an interesting talk today from Karen Penner and Loree giving us the history of Sam Steele sweethearts, which has now morphed into the youth ambassador program There was no opportunity for questions, but I do wonder at what point will there not be a gender restriction? I think it is important that labels not be applied when it comes to being an ambassador for our city
Back at the office, I was spoiled with a cake and singing.
After work, I stopped and had a lovely visit with Michelle at the bar at Fenwick & bakerbefore heading over to Encore. My team was unavailable tonight for trivia as one of them had to head out of town and the other had a hangover so I was grateful when Roger reached out to join them. It was Roger, Zac, Nesta, Sharaya with her son Hudson and myself, and we won! Took home $77 for my five dollar investment, which was definitely a bonus and our team name was Hoppy Easter. I did very well in the gin category.
I arrived home to a gift hanging from my door from the lovely Diana Grabenhof. We fall into this delightful pattern of gifting each other on our birthdays. I honestly don’t remember when it began and we don’t even see each other very often but there’s just something special about celebrating someone being born and she weirdly knows me so well. The gifts were brilliant. I feel like the only time we’ve been out together intentionally was for sushi so the gift is perfect.
I was also overwhelmed when I decided to check my mail even though I had checked it yesterday. There was a part of me that I’m not necessarily proud of that was sad that I didn’t get any birthday cards. And then tonight I had the biggest surprise of all getting one from Kevin O’Driscoll. I’m met him at a Rotary and he has very much tuned in with support. He and his wife moved here from Australia, although he is originally from Ireland and I had to let him know how much it meant to me to make such a simple gesture. I was brought up to feel that birthdays were special that it was important that I was on this planet. I try to let people in my life know that I feel that way about them and I also try not to expect too much from others. In spite of the fact that it is important to me that I am having a birthday. Is that weird?
triumphgal 