Just My Luck

New day, new week, new......EVERYTHING. Well I had a very interesting week, last week. It was one thing after another it seems like. Monday started with me coming home to find my electricity had been turned off. Did someone forget to pay the bill? Yes...well sorta. I paid it late and apparently my payment had not showed up on my account before they turned it off. So I immediately had to pack up my groceries and head to my mom's house so they didn't go bad. This wasn't so bad b/c my grandmother had just come to town so I was at least getting to see here. After repeating the story 50 times to everyone and a few laughs I thought the night hadn't turned out so bad. Why did I think this? A few hours later I received a phone call from Travis County Correctional Center and who was on the other end of the phone???? Justin! Yup...my brother landed himself in jail. I will not get into the charges because he has not met with the judge yet but be looking out for a future blog explaining the situation. So I spent the remainder of my night and the following day dealing with that drama. He was finally released late Tuesday night so I still looked forward to the 4th (Wednesday). I woke up early Wednesday excited for all the events of the day. BBQ, family over, possible parties to attend, and lots of fireworks. As I stepped outside my plans soon had to change. It was pouring outside. BLAH! I could not believe it. Could I not have one good day this week? Well outdoor activities were cancelled and then my aunt ended up not coming to Austin with her family. So we spent the rest of the afternoon playing spades with my family and didn't bother to head downtown for the fireworks. I headed home around 9pm and on my way so all sorts of fireworks going off. I was so mad that we decided not to go downtown b/c they had actually decided to continue on with the show b/c it briefly stopped raining. DARN! It did not seem like this week was ever going to get better. So Thursday wasn't too bad. Had a decent day at work, then headed home to have a relaxing night alone only to come home and find my kitchen flooded. That's right! Flooded! A pipe busted above my ceiling in my kitchen and water was EVERYWHERE. They tried to stop it but it continued to leak until the next day when they could get someone else to come out and fix it. Boy how I longed for the weekend. Surely it had to be better than my week.......

And it was. With everything that had happened all I could do was laugh. It was actually pretty funny when I looked back on it all. Maybe not at the time but now it seemed hilarious. Just my luck. =) All I could do was think, "Did it kill me?" "No." "Did it harm me in any way?" "No." "Did I learn from it. " "Some what." Then it was all good. I have a wonderful family and great friends and the ability to not let things get me down. I'd say my life is pretty darn great. I spent the entire weekend doing my own thing. Nothing major. Just little things I had been putting off. I woke up this morning feeling so much better. A sense of accomplishment. Nice feeling. I think I'll try to keep this up. Started the diet again today and the exercise program. Also working on a few other things that I'll catch you up on later. So...onto a new week. Happy Monday!