Yeah – I said it.  Big weekend full of firsts:

• First road trip with a friend of mine.
• First time playing Apples to Apples (no – I don’t know how that’s possible).
• First 5K walk.  CB joined me – definitely good quality time.  Don’t get enough of that! HP, of course, ran a 10K and finished well before we did, but she’s a freak. (And ranked 3rd in her age group!!!!)
• First Pumpkin festival, including first pumpkin mac and cheese, first pumpkin margarita, first pumpkin churro
• First time falling asleep in car of friend I’m visiting who is carting me around. (I blame the 5K, additional random walking all day, and food from previous bullet.)
• First Pho
• First Tarot Card reading. (HA!  Details below.)
• First interview for the a leadership development program I’d like to be a part of.  Think it went about as well as it could. Decision is made late this week or early next.  Stay tuned!

I wasn’t gonna do the Tarot Cards.  I don’t know why – I think I was afraid of what I’d hear.  I’ve never dismissed that stuff entirely. But, two friends were doing it, so I had to do it, too.  I’m a follower (hence, the need for leadership development. LOL)

The Tarot Cards told me the following:

• Beware of a dark-haired woman.  She is two-faced and will be pretend to be my friend, but will stab me in my back. (I’ve got my eye on every dark-haired person I know – including you, CB!)
• I have low energy and relatively low confidence.  I need to continue to make the changes I’m making and rise above it.
• I’ve been badly heartbroken in relationships twice in my life, and that still affects me. Evidently, no one in my life truly “gets” just how deep it goes.  My face smiles, but underneath there is sadness and protection.
• A past relationship will come back into my life.  I am in no uncertain terms to go there.  Very, very bad. (In truth, she mentioned this and I squealed incredulously “WHAT?!?!?”, my mind reeling at who it could be.  She smacked her hands together and said “No. Bad. Very Bad.” HA!  As if anyone would let me get away with that now.  Shared with Mamacita and she threatened to disown me.
• Love is all around me. Healthy, nice, sunshiny love, apparently.  I’m a devoted friend and loved.
• I will meet a man through work (either professional or volunteer – yes, I asked).  He will be just coming out of a relationship and a little slow to the start, but I should just be patient and go with it. (Yes – because patience is my strong suit.)
• This man will be slightly younger than me, and will likely have children. (because if your track record has been, well, kind of a train wreck for the most part, go with something completely different!)
• In about two years, I will have a marriage proposal by said man.  Of course my first question was: “is it a good proposal or a bad proposal?”  Good!  He is a good man, and I should go for it.
• I will be at my current job in the next 4-5 years.
• I will be in good health in the next 5 years.
• My mother will be in relatively good health in the next five years.

I think that’s it.  Not bad for the first time out.  We’ll see what comes of it.