Kind Friends

Yesterday was a day. I had two great classes I taught, but in the middle of them I found out I had to move 85 people from classes they had already paid for to different classes. So I had to send 85 different emails. It was actually 82, because I did not have three people’s email addresses, so I messaged them through Venmo and they haven’t emailed me back yet (stressful.).

I was so worked up over this development that I could not go to sleep. I finally passed out around two in the morning. That alone was not helpful.

Today I woke up to a lot of kind and wonderful messages from people who made moving them to other classes easier. They were supportive and understanding.

One dear friend, Angier wrote, “Please do not be sick. You are a national treasure. I’m just so grateful that you teach this!!!” (There were some good emoji’s in it too.)

She has no idea how much that meant to me at that very moment. I hate having to disappoint people. Telling people that they can’t be in a class they thought they were going to be in kills me. Also it’s a huge amount of work and waste of time and space, when I promise that now there will be empty seats in that class which could have been taken by people dying to get in them.

My take away from this is I am always going to offer grace and encouraging words to others when they face a situation like this because getting those kind messages really helped me.

Then to top it off, a book arrived today, a gift from my friend Jill. She had read how much I loved the infused water in Florida and sent me a recipe book on every kind of infused water one could think of. It was the sweetest act of kindness at a time that I needed lifting up. She didn’t know that, or plan it, but that was what it was.

So thanks to the universe for putting these wonderful people in my life. And thanks to the friends for coming through when I needed you.

Now if someone could give me a theatre in Cary in April for three hours I could solve my new card scheduling problem. I have too many people who want to come to new card class and not enough seats in the right places at the right times.