Spring Break Lessons
I was going to write this as a post on facebook, but soon you will see why that wasn't a good idea.
I learned some lessons this spring break and as hard as that can be, it is also always good; a personal growth moment took place ten times over.
I learned that when you are married to a perfectionist and someone who can do most everything and usually on the first try, it is not good for one whose self-esteem is already in the hole to learn a new sport together. We decided to take a family snowboarding lesson together.
Fun family memories made on the ski hill spring break 2014!!!
Great pictures, right? Many laughs......well sure there were plenty of those. But the speedy success of Brian only brought up the years of resentment I have harbored for him over all the other things he is better at than me: finances, tennis, golf, communication, reasoning, arguing, etc and the list goes on and on. Mind you, I was totally ok with sucking at snowboarding because I was preserving my dignity and body. I will try it again and this time preferably by myself, on some unknown mountain, in some remote location.
A side lesson of this is; if you choose to take a snowboarding lesson, take the advice of the baby bear in the Charmin commercial and pre-pad your butt with lots of TP or a pillow or something.
The next lesson; never EVER hold on to years of resentment for this long!!! It is a bad idea for so many reasons I am not even sure I can count them.
It that moment when he wasn't even talking to me (granted I wasn't looking up, so I couldn't see who he was addressing), but he made a statement about what everyone else needed to be doing to get out the house, all I saw in my head was the years of him or his mom, addressing me, as if I was the ONLY one not paying attention or on my phone or computer. I just lost it and then it spiraled OUT OF CONTROL and I didn't care who I hurt or what I said because I was so sick of years of being the subject of the wrongdoing. More on this later.
This brings up the next lesson; never bring God or Jesus into the discussion.
Finally, don't take 2 Kavinace Ultra PM's and not get enough sleep! I have never felt so bad, so sick, so out of it the next day than I have today. One moment I feel like I am going to throw up, the next I am dizzy, the next hungry, the next like I am going to pass out.
UGH......it sucks to feel alone so often.
Spring Break 2014 Good Riddance.
I learned some lessons this spring break and as hard as that can be, it is also always good; a personal growth moment took place ten times over.
I learned that when you are married to a perfectionist and someone who can do most everything and usually on the first try, it is not good for one whose self-esteem is already in the hole to learn a new sport together. We decided to take a family snowboarding lesson together.
Fun family memories made on the ski hill spring break 2014!!!
Great pictures, right? Many laughs......well sure there were plenty of those. But the speedy success of Brian only brought up the years of resentment I have harbored for him over all the other things he is better at than me: finances, tennis, golf, communication, reasoning, arguing, etc and the list goes on and on. Mind you, I was totally ok with sucking at snowboarding because I was preserving my dignity and body. I will try it again and this time preferably by myself, on some unknown mountain, in some remote location.
A side lesson of this is; if you choose to take a snowboarding lesson, take the advice of the baby bear in the Charmin commercial and pre-pad your butt with lots of TP or a pillow or something.
The next lesson; never EVER hold on to years of resentment for this long!!! It is a bad idea for so many reasons I am not even sure I can count them.
It that moment when he wasn't even talking to me (granted I wasn't looking up, so I couldn't see who he was addressing), but he made a statement about what everyone else needed to be doing to get out the house, all I saw in my head was the years of him or his mom, addressing me, as if I was the ONLY one not paying attention or on my phone or computer. I just lost it and then it spiraled OUT OF CONTROL and I didn't care who I hurt or what I said because I was so sick of years of being the subject of the wrongdoing. More on this later.
This brings up the next lesson; never bring God or Jesus into the discussion.
Finally, don't take 2 Kavinace Ultra PM's and not get enough sleep! I have never felt so bad, so sick, so out of it the next day than I have today. One moment I feel like I am going to throw up, the next I am dizzy, the next hungry, the next like I am going to pass out.
UGH......it sucks to feel alone so often.
Spring Break 2014 Good Riddance.
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