Keeping it all in perspective...

This weekend my league smashed it's goal to raise $4,000 towards our skate floor with the most fun event - a Solid Gold Disco skate-a-thon. Like every other walk or run, you could have gotten pledges for laps or just a flat donation. A friend of mine burned 2 hours worth of AMAZING 70's music, about 25 people showed up and we took over the skate floor - kind of. We really just skated some leisure laps around the track, (some made an effort to actually skate a decent amount), stepped over falling children and had to tolerate a mix of disco and modern tween music that kept getting requested when too much disco had been played. Here's some photos from the event:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67749380@N00/sets/72157602152541185/

We had every intention to go out with some of the skaters (Hell'en Skate, So Sue Me, Cia WoodnWanna-Bia) for "the retros" but landed at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants in Everett (and Seattle for that matter), Gorditos, where Marlene works. Ok, actually she owns the place. She's someone I met in PFM and she now skates on Rat City's Socket Wenches. She's got to be one of the nicest people ever. We meant to go hear music and dance and instead we ate and drank at her restaurant, talked about skating, about plans, life and all of that. It was a great and completely random time.

However, come Monday, work needs to be done and emails need to be answered. My friend Annika IM'ed me from Egypt (where Kelly Rae, Lara and I are going in November!) I have been before and am thrilled to go to Egypt again! When I came back from the Peace Corps (and the first time I went to Egypt), people use to ask me what I wanted to do next? I would say I didn't know, but I hoped one day to be the ambassador to Egypt (of course now I realize I'm sleeping with all the wrong people.) Anyway, we talked about what we had going on in our lives and she resent me the link to her blog: http://stompercat.nomadlife.org/. Oh right - so much going on in the rest of the world! Sometimes you need a little dose of other people's experiences and perspective to remember there is so much else going on... and it's not about your job on Monday....