Failure on the Derby Floor....and a grand husband too!

Ok.  I failed.  Big time.  I don't do failure well.  If you know me, you know that I really enjoy myself and all things relating to me and feel as if the solar system rotates directly around my head.  I finally was told by my DH to start paying attention to other people and asking questions about THEM(hmmmm) that I might find myself pleasantly surprised at how interesting other people are.  Now I tried this, and still tend to find conversations with others drifting back to me.  This is a sad truthful fact and I do try hard to listen more and be more interested.  One day I will be better at this, but for now, BACK TO ME.

Failure=ME falling while "Falling" during a test and apparently not squatting low enough and OH yeah!  I am not stable on my left leg while careening out of control around the derby track. Here I thought i was doing fairly well and was pretty impressed with myself.  So I kind of maybe goofed off a little because I am SO bad under pressure that I once(thrice) threw my glove at a softball that I should have been catching when my friends parents came to see my game.  So yes, I fell....and NO, I usually do not.  And also, I usually do better than I did that night but oh well.  So the thing that chafes the most is that the two girls I was connecting with were one of 4 or 5 girls out of 25 that did pass.  After failing I found out that I have the perfect mentor assigned to me and then instead of hanging and having a nice little gathering after practice, I got out of dodge ASAP and cried in my car the whole way home.....Wee Wee Wee.

Luckily I have a band of merry friends surrounding me and encouraging me not to give up....including my wonderful husband who has been VERY supportive of this and went to the best chocolate place in town during Lent.  He then resisted the smell of fresh chocolate and picked out the BEST chocolates ever and brought them to his still weepy wife and THEN put the little one down for her nap so I could eat them in peace....LOVE HIM!!! And love all of you who support me and put up with me.  So I will go back on Monday and try to not be embarrassed and keep it up.

Also, I am making a fun cake for my niece who turned Six today and can't wait to put it all together....right now here is a sneak peak.

What do you think?  Colors to muted for a rainbow cake for a girl with a very BRIGHT personality?  Let me know!