Bad things happen to good people...

I'm a good person, right?

Sometimes I learn lessons the hard way. Okay, most of the time. Here's a few I learned this week:

*You are supposed to get a tetanus shot every ten years. I don't remember my mom telling me this when I grew up and moved away. I thought she was supposed to get me all my shots. Anyway, in order to volunteer at Isaac's scout camp this summer, I have to be "current" on all my shots. Like a good mom, I marched myself into my doc's office and took it in the arm. No big deal until the next day. I vacuumed. I happen to be a switch hitter when it comes to vacuuming. Well, bad mistake. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. My arm ached all evening long. A bad kind of internal-bone aching. Not good.

*Eighty pounds of baked potatoes is plenty to feed 30 people. For a week! As my husband mentioned, the big stake event turned into an intimate gathering because of the weather. I left about 70 potatoes with the family hosting the party, but I still left there with about 60 potatoes. We've had a delicious potato soup my hubby made, funeral potatoes, and fried potatoes. Got any more suggestions? We have at least 20 more to eat. We're having potato/bacon/egg skillet breakfast in the morning. After all, it's TAKS day!

*There are about 145 homes in my subdivision. Early voting began today and with my husband's political aspirations, I thought I'd help him out and deliver fliers to all the homes in our neighborhood. Other than a newspaper article (in the free Lorena Leader bi-weekly newspaper), we've done nothing else to help get him elected. He's really busy, so with the time quickly approaching, I thought I'd research the "rules" of campaigning. After over an hour of reading a bunch of stuff that made little-to-no sense, I emailed the city secretary to have her help me locate the "rules." After all this trouble (I'm sparing you a lot of the details) I read something to the effect that if I'm not spending more than $500 to produce the fliers, I don't have to have any "paid for by the committee to elect..." statement on my flier. Ya, you guessed it. I didn't spend $500 at Kinko's to copy my flier. Actually it was free because I had a coupon. But that's not even the tough part. I made 100 fliers, coerced the kids into walking with me, and we taped a flier to every doorknob in our neighborhood. Until we ran out. Ughh.... It turns out I was about 45 short. So I printed off the rest from my printer (we don't live very close to a print shop), and delivered the rest today. So far, one elderly man thought having four kids was a lot, so he will vote for Paul, and one lady didn't even know there were elections. Oh well.... (oh, and some eighth graders saw us all walking, and asked what we were selling. I noticed Paul Ivan (a sixth grader) walk a little faster and ahead of the rest of us, and he just answered, "my dad is running for city council." At that moment, I wish I hadn't asked Paul to come along. Poor kid doesn't need us ruining his school rep. I'll try to keep this in mind for the future.)

I think I had one more to share, but I think I'll refrain from racking my brain so maybe, just maybe, if I do remember it, I'll have something to post about in the next couple of days.

You're right, probably not.