New attitude, new thread

[ClingingToHope]

The umpiring has been a God send. It helped fill a hole in my budget when one of my other part-time gigs fell through.

But the past five weeks, as I've had to do it more often, I've had to deal with a nasty side affect. It's causing my face to break out on my chin where the mask sits.

I have to umpire tonight, tomorrow and Monday then I only have a handful of games in July.

It'll be nice to have my face clear up again. It's hard to have confidence talking to someone with acne on your chin.

My Saturday party looks OK as long as the weather holds. I think I'll easily get 10 to 15 and perhaps more. Interestingly, the leader of the new church growth group I'm joining is coming.

She's 33. Never been married and kind of a player. I had her and a couple of other friends out to dinner a couple of weeks ago. She made it a point to sit next to me for most of the dinner, but then when a younger guy joined us she switched over to sitting by him. I thought it was funny. She's a blonde, and they generally don't go for me so I wasn't expecting much. She was still working on him when I left.

A week later I get a text out of the blue on a Saturday that I had my daughters. She was looking for something to do. I had to turn her down and instead pitched lunch this week. She said she was busy.

Now she's coming to the party. She's interesting. She had a friend with her two weeks ago I would be interested in asking out. A teacher. I wonder if she'll come along.