Grades, Spades, and.. um, Easter

Ok, so first off I'd like to toot my own horn, if you don't mind. As you probably know, I'm taking online college courses, and I just checked my overall grades for my two current classes this afternoon. In one class I'm getting a 96.5% and in the other a 97.2%!! HOLY CRACKER! I did fairly well in High School, but my grades generally averaged in the B range. I did receive some A's, but nothing like this. Admittedly, the classes I'm taking at the moment are not difficult compared to what I know is coming, but I'm still proud of myself. It's no secret that I have been much busier lately than in the past, but I stick to my study schedule every single day, no matter what is going on in my life. If this keeps up, I might actually graduate with a decent GPA, lol.

I adore Easter for many reasons, but one of the main ones is because I like to see how adorable the kids are dressed that day. It seems everyone I know puts their kids in little suits and the most gorgeous dresses on Easter. For instance, one of my friend's sons was wearing a gray and white pin-striped suit. SO FREAKIN' CUTE!!!! Anyway, for Easter this year one of my girlfriends took her three daughters shopping and bought them matching shorts and shirts. Then she and her boyfriend bought shirts to match the girls. Obviously the adult's shirts weren't the same exact ones as the kid's, just the colors matched, but they all looked so damn cute together. The girls all wore these matching plaid shorts, which I generally don't think are cute, but were in this case.

One of my friends encountered a bit of a dilemma when shopping for Easter presents this year. She has three girls and when she buys one something, the other two get the same thing. If not, then she hears "Mom got this for me." "No, she didn't, it's mine!" and so on. You get my point. She has to buy 3 of everything. But what do you do when you find two of something, but can't find a third. She encountered this problem while shopping for summer toys for the girls. Wanting to give them something they could play with at the beach she looked for those sets of shovels, and buckets and such that always pop up around the summer. She found two, but she couldn't find a third one. Hours we spent, going from store to store, looking for a third. Finally we found one, thankfully. Each of the girls was very happy with their gift and that always makes me smile.

Little White Lies That Turn Into Big Ones

This is proof positive why you should NOT lie to people. When you tell someone a little white lie, no matter your reasons for doing it, you are pushing yourself into a corner you cannot get out of without telling the person you lied and having to fess up to the truth at some point. If you don't get caught in the lie, then you don't have to worry about it. But how often does it happen that we do actually get away with it? Not often I think.

As an example let me bore you with this little story. I told a friend of mine what I thought at the time was a little lie, no big deal. Wrong. As time passed I had to make up more information about the lie because I was too embarrassed to admit the truth. Well, I have now told this person the truth, though I did it in an email like a wimp. I won't know the outcome of this for a few days at least, but I'm terrified of what my friend will say to me. I hope they won't be so mad at me that they stop talking to me but that certainly is a possibility.

Aren't we all taught from a very young age how wrong it is to lie to anyone about anything? I know sometimes in our lives we make a call when we think the lie is the better road to take for various different reasons. But is that really true? I'm not saying that you should always tell everyone exactly what you think, that would just be ridiculous and you'd probably piss a lot of people off that way. I guess I'm just curious about when is it okay to lie? Where do you draw the line? In this case it wasn't anything I consider that big a deal, just a detail about me that I was not truthful about. But again, the little lie itself turned bigger as time went on.

And I truly feel that if you are trying to build a friendship with someone you should not lie to them. A guilty conscious pushed me into telling my friend the truth and I just might regret doing that.

I guess I'll just have to wait and see.