What's the Next Step?

Friday night, Car came over to my place to do his laundry. He was sitting in his condo a few weeks ago, when a neighbor knocked on his door. This was a neighbor who was asking if he had water coming from his ceiling. Car's washing machine was leaking water and it had traveled down through 4 floors of condo's. Not pretty....can you say home owners insurance?

After he left I met Shamus and Brian at Twist for the first softball fundraiser of the season. Total collected for the league...$240, and My liver will never be the same. Found out that the Bachelor Auction will be in two or three weeks, and we will need to bring three outfits, a regular outfit, a dress outfit, and gulp....a swimsuit. For those of you who don't know...the thought of standing on the auction block in just a swimsuit is enough to make my heart sink into the bottom of my stomach. I feel a bit sick at the thought of it, and may be arranging for a few bidders to sit in the audience.

So on Saturday, I was speaking to someone about his life (I'll keep his name undisclosed for good reasons). What got me was when I was speaking to Car the night before, he spoke about AA and how they get people to really be glad for what they have.

"How did you get to the meeting tonight?"
"I drove here."
"Really...you own a car. How do you pay for it?"
"I work in town."
"Wow...you have car...you have job...You have a lot going for you...Why are you here?"

Well the conversation I had with this other person made me realize sometimes how good I have it. We all have our blocks, but when you look at what some other's have to go through, your own problems seem just smaller.