Lightening Online

Tonight our club is putting on a Victory Dinner. Apparently this is something they do each year to celebrate those teams that win a Grand Final. This year that would be us and….well, just us actually. Which isn’t all that common from what I can gather (being new to all this stuff I know very little about it really). Usually there are a number of teams celebrating a victory together at the Victory Dinner.

So I don’t really know what is going to happen tonight but I’m expecting it to be a fun night. The kids are staying over at the Grandparents so it’s a bit of a “night out” for DH and I as well. I am looking forward to it muchly.

I’ve had a busy week with trying to get ready to pick up our caravan and go away, with very little notice. But I really wanted to do a little something for my team-mates as a thank you for putting up with me throughout the year. We have a large team and my playing has meant less court time for other members of the team.

They’ve all been very supportive and encouraging throughout the season and I heart them all.

I wanted to make chocolate hearts but it would seem among my gazzillion chocolate moulds that I’ve inherited from different sources over the years, there wasn’t a single heart among them. Actually, there was 1 square chocolate with a little heart on it. But it took me most the day as it was - I think it would have taken me all week to make enough with this 1 chocolate mould. So, they’ll have to settle for mostly flowers. It’ll all taste the same anyway!!!

I’m not generally a gushy person. It takes an effort to tell people how I feel. But although it doesn’t come easily, it’s something I try to work on doing because I believe it’s important. So finding something to write about each player in my team was somewhat of a challenge. Well, some were easier than others.

Anyway, here is the finished product:

Hopefully they’ll like them. I’m still tossing up whether or not to colour in the lettering. It’s coming down to a time factor I think. So much to do so little time.

So, now I need to make a decision about what to wear. I think we decided on the dress-code being “whatever you feel like wearing”. LOL. I have this black and gold dress I bought earlier in the year which I’d like to wear. It’s a tiny bit tight across the chest (was mail order and I decided it wasn’t worth exchanging for the next size up). But I am in LOVE with it and have been waiting for an opportunity to wear it.

Otherwise it’ll be a plain black dress which will be more comfortable but not as exciting to wear.

Oooh….I’m getting all excited just thinking about it.

I haven’t written the Smiley Saturday post yet because I want to write about the Victory Dinner. So if it’s a little late going up, please bear with me - it will be coming (I may just be sleeping in ).

I’ve also been having a LOT of internet connection troubles lately so if I haven’t been by to comment, please accept my apologies. It’s been mighty frustrating.