Getting Organized in Days of My Destiny

So for my teacher aide course I need to be current on my First Aid - which means I need to have a course that has not yet expired. I had no idea whether mine had or hadn't. I didn't even know where my certificate was. I looked everywhere. You know the saying that says something about how you always find something in the last place you look? Which is funnyhaha? Well for me, I literally found it in the last place I COULD look!! LOL. Which is funnyHAHA! I have no idea what on earth I would've done if it was not there. I was looking through every single file and it was in the very bottom of the very last file - phew!!! I have called the people in charge and turns out my First Aid certificate is valid for 3 years which means it expires in October this year. Which is excellent because I have until August to finish my teacher's aide course, which means I shall be graduating with a current valid First Aide certificate! Woohoo! Still, I have pencilled in my diary to organize for a Refresher course in September. I can do a simple Refresher course, or I can apply to do a course that is specific to educational settings. Which of course would be greatly beneficial and probably look better on my CV. So I'll see closer to the time which way I go.

Kim has asked me to help her out today. She has a 5 year old, a 2.5 year old and a 1 year old. It's her oldest's first Sports Carnival today and she'd like to be able to watch without having to chase after the 2.5 year old, who happens to have his sleep time at the same time as the carnival anyway. So I'll be going over to Kim's with Little L, to hang out while her middle son sleeps, so she can go and watch her oldest. I think that keeping busy in some kind of way that is outside my house will really help me get back into the swing of things. It's silly you know, when I first read Kim's message I was like, "Hmph, of course you missed me, I'm always doing you favours..." but I can't be thinking like that all the time. Yeah it's true, but so what? I'm the one that's always offering to help, and if my help is truly HELPFUL and appreciated, then who cares. Plus, in this particular situation it ends up being a win-win, because she gets to watch her oldest child freely and I get out of the house! I want to get dinner organized before I go though.

I really need to stop focusing on how much I am disliking enoying being back and just get into the swing of things and start enjoying it.

Last time I went out for dinner with Kim was a month ago. There were a few other women there and it was a quiet but great night. We all promised we'd do this once a month from now on (because otherwise nobody ever sees each other) and another lady Karina was all like, yep, I'm adding it into my diary straight away! The next dinner was due this Friday night but when I reminded Kim about it yesterday, she'd forgotten all about it and was even asking me what the occasion was, lol. I was kind of looking forward to dinner out but I am equally looking forward to a quiet night in.

Janet invited me to the Keith Urban concert yesterday. She was going with her husband and another couple but her husband has been so busy and exhausted that he decided not to go, and apparently when the couple heard that he wasn't going, they pulled out too (lame..). So now Janet is left with 3 spare tickets and the concert is this Friday night. I said no though. I mean....... I'd owe her $100, which is a lot when you've first come back from overseas, and also a lot when the artist isn't even someone you're that into. I don't know any of his songs. Part of me was like, I should do it because I live in such a rural place and it'd be cool to say I saw him while here... but the other part of me is like SO WHAT?! Lol. Just because I live in a rural place doesn't mean I have to spend a fortune on a country singer's concert lol. Besides, it's not my fault her husband and friends pulled out. Oh well.

It's been crazy getting organized again. Yesterday I had to fork out precisely $56.50 for school-related things, which are class photos and Healthy Harold coming next term. Also next term I will have to pay $3 every week for M to do tennis for sport. And the expenses begin!!! I had to write in my diary when the class photos are, as well as when the preschool working bee is on, etc etc. It felt so good crossing out all my Committee-related stuff as I saw them though. SOOOOO glad I quit that crap, lol. All I have to do now is add some third-party resources to my current easy-as-anything essay and then do one last test before graduating my teacher aide course. And I don't have to worry about checking emails or following up on jobs to be done by the Committee or being up to date with legislation on a thousand different things or carrying this huge responsibility of being President of a large organization or attending meetings or answering phone calls I don't want to answer and so on. It is SUCH a relief, I tell you!

Actually yesterday when I was dropping Little L off at preschool, I saw a lady ther who is on the Committee. She has always smiled and said Hi to me, even pre-Committee days, but yesterday she was weird with me, like she avoided looking over my way and even then, when I actually said Hi to her she was more distant. Oh well, I don't care. I got great feedback about the role I was playing there but it doesn't mean I have to stick around if it's not aligning with my personal values! Besides this lady has always been involved in some Committee or another, so she's probably just one of those Committee types who fully dedicates herself to these things. I don't, pfft, I'd never even done it before! Anyway it also made me wonder (only briefly) what the Treasurer has said about me since I've left. I got the feeling over time that she's the type to make stuff up in order to look like she knows what's REALLY going on. I could just picture her, telling the Committee that I was really STRUGGLING with it all and that "you should've heard the things she said to me outside the meetings." Lol, seriously it just makes me laugh though, I just don't care! The people who really know me, REALLY KNOW ME. And that's that. I just can't believe how relieved I am to be out of that whole environment. There was bitchiness left, right, centre, up, down, all around! It was crazy and honestly it just was NOT for me. They can have it!