3 hours, 2 gallons of gas, 1 failed outing

Some people have useful talents and gifts. Some people can sing, or paint, or figure out just where that piece of furniture needs to go... I can get lost. It is a talent that I practice nearly every time I go some place I've never been, and sometimes when I go places I have been before!

I was trying to go to the regional YSA conference opening event at Chaney Stadium in Tacoma. I printed directions, I kept track of the mileage, I read the signs, I got totally lost. And of course, since I was driving from Renton to Tacoma, it took me an hour and a half to travel 22 miles. After getting off the freeway and driving towards where I thought I should be going, I called Colleen just on the verge of hysterics. Luckily, Colleen and her handy iPad got me where I needed to be. Even if I was now an hour behind schedule!

I tried to get into the parking lot, but guess what? All full. The local stores around the stadium all had "No Event Parking" signs, and I decided I wasn't going to walk a mile to see a baseball game I didn't care about with people I didn't know (see how I didn't say "people I didn't care about"? That's called diplomacy). In the end, I cried and went home to bake a German chocolate cake for my awesome secretaries at school.

What made it worse was that I didn't even want to go, I felt like I ought to since I don't have any friends and haven't been on a real date since I was at BYU, and those were all non-romantic dates anyway. How am I supposed to meet a nice LDS guy if I don't go to stupid YSA stuff and sit by myself being lame? The Internet says you? Yes, that is my conclusion as well. So, I am officially paying for LDS Singles so my future husband can read my bio and fall in virtual love with me. Hopefully it will progress to literal love, but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, okay?

The night may have been a disaster, but the cake was wundervoll! (That's wonderful in German...according to some website. I believe everything I read online.).