Has it Been a Week?

I don’t know what made this week go by so quickly, but I’ll take more of that next week.  It’s Friday!  Already!

This was my annual sucky week.  Yesterday was the 8th anniversary of when my dad died, and I could tell in the days leading up to yesterday that I wasn’t unaffected.  I was testy, short tempered and judgmental and I was also a bit depressed.  I spent yesterday the same way I have for the last seven years, I drove up to my alma mater and I dropped off a check for the [Ender’s dad] memorial scholarship.  Last year’s recipient was the president of the student government association and I have to dig up this year’s announcement because I think the new SGA president is the recipient again.  I guess my checks go right to the top.

I am a bit disappointed that no one was around to receive my check yesterday.  For the last couple of years I have basically driven for two hours and handed my check to a receptionist.  I could have stayed home and used PayPal or charged it and gotten airline miles.  I know that my check is measly in the whole scheme of things and they don’t have that kind of time to spend for a single contribution, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t bother me.

Mrs. Ender and I will be going back up next week for the major donor’s gala.  Well, WE will be going to the donor’s gala and I will also be attending my first meeting as a member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors.  I drove by the “lodge” where we will be staying to make sure that I will know how to get there at night.

I am debating whether to change the scholarship from the [Ender’s dad] Memorial Scholarship to the [Ender] Family Scholarship.  The current scholarship is in the Political Science department and I’m considering adding a scholarship in the Early Education department, it doesn’t make quite as much sense to have a specifically named scholarship if it’s available across departments.  I would probably wait until after the tenth anniversary to make the change, but even that wait only gives me two years to make a decision.  Hmm.

What else is going on?  If it stops raining over the weekend I have some soap to make.  Mrs. Ender picked up some candy molds that I’m going to use to make fancy guest soaps.  I’m thinking about a white soap with red swirls and peppermint oil for scent.  They are going to look like candy.  Wasn’t there a movie in which someone tried to eat the fancy soaps in the powder room?  At least they’ll be peppermint flavored.

I probably need to get up on the ladder this weekend and clean out the gutters.  Yesterday’s storm was pretty heavy, but the water isn’t supposed to come over the gutter like that, the sticks and leaves I can see peeking above the downspout is another good indicator of what I’ve got.  Clogged gutters.  Maybe I should look into a rain barrel, as long as I’m think about gutters and downspouts?

Other than that, I’ve got nothing.

Ender is out.