Time for a Friday look back over the previous week.

The Good - every one is well and healthy. Hubby (Teacherman) made it safely to Florida on Thurs. He is a senior class advisor, so he is with the senior class at Disney World. Tonight Angelgirl (my daughter) and I are going to a concert to see the Chieftains (Irish folk music) - they are so awesome and only come around at this time of year. Luckily the concert is only about 20 minutes away so I won’t have to travel too far.  Listening to their music you can’t help but be in a happy mood and it’s a great way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day too.

You can sample their music with a mp3 download, here are a few to get you started:
The Chieftains,
Away We Go Again,
The Fairies’ Lamentation And Dance,
Galician Medley,
The Ace And The Deuce of Pipering, many more are available too.

Or go for the Irish gold and get one of their awesome cds (it will get you up and moving and dancing for sure - which means you’ll burn LOTS of calories too!), there are so many to choose from but here is a small sampling:
The Best of the Chieftains,
The Essential Chieftains,
The Chieftains 9: Boil the Breakfast Early.
Their latest cd is Further Down the Old Plank Road. I’ve been listening the music samples as I type this and I can’t stop my toes from tapping.

The Bad - me and Angelgirl MISS Teacherman a LOT. He won’t be home until Monday evening. We are so busy though the time should go by fast (Angelgirl has an outing Saturday and Sunday that I also have to go attend with her), which for me is in the bad column because I only have so much energy and all this running around is going to be exhausting. The concert has a bad side too because hubby isn’t here to attend with us. We didn’t know when the class trip was going to be months ago when we bought the tickets Also we had bought extras to take friends along who said they wanted to come, but unfortunately they had to back out because of scheduling conflicts, which of course is just something that happens. It will be a very expensive evening out for me and Angelgirl, but hubby did manage to find some friends (fellow teachers) who will be able to use the extra tickets so at least they will be enjoyed and not empty seats going to waste. The one lady who is attending loves the Chieftians even more then I do and usually attends their concert every year for past decade or more, but she was having such an awful, stressful several months that she didn’t get tickets this year. We are so thrilled to be able do something nice for her and add a bit of cheer to her life at this time. Everything happens for a reason, so it all worked out as it should

And now for The Stupid (or perhaps misguided is a better term) - an unnamed person (a member of my family) has signed up for a matching making service.  One service cost $4,000 but he felt that was too much and found one that was only $2,000, and since he felt even that was to expensive  he managed to a deal for $900 for 6 months and if he gets a few dates he will pay an additional $900 for 6 more months. He met the match maker at some room over a small store (because they didn’t have office in the area and were driving in from up north), it all sounds very odd to me. When hubby told me this tale at first I laughed, but then all I could do was shake my head at the how silly this whole thing is. Now this middle aged man (in his late 40s) has been out of work for about 7 years and only recently got a good job a couple of months ago (it’s a decent salary but barely enough to get by as a single parent). He has a 10 year old son he is raising on his own (and I’ll spare you the horror stories I could tell you about the violent tendencies and behavioral problems that have already started from the time his was a toddler) - they  live in my sister’s living room (where they have been now for about 3 years). His car barely runs. His first priority shouldn’t be getting a date! And for that kind of money he could go on a lot of dates, just sign up for a club, volunteer some where, take up a hobby or activity where he could meet people, or just go to a bar and buy a woman a drink or something. For the $900 he could have bought a lap top and signed up for one of those online services for under $100. For that matter he could just use the library computer and go through the online services for match making or place a personal ad. Another option, I’ll set hun up on a few dates and I’ll only charage him half what the match maker is fleecing him for.

I am definitely in the wrong business, who knew that match makers charge such a riduculous price and all you get is a date or two, there is no guarantee of a long term relationship or any refund either. I wonder what the qualifications are to become a match maker. Is there a night class or some test you have to take? It has to be a very low cost business to run - some business cards and flyers, a phone, a computer, a calendar and a small file cabinet should be all I’d need to start up.

Oh well, I wish him well and hope he meets the girl of his dreams.

**dances off to the lively Irish tunes of the Chietains** 

Related Posts:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (previous week’s review).


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