Conundrum/Semi-rhetorical question:

At the beginning of December, I said I would help chaperone the youth retreat that is this weekend. While I'm not doing youth group much at all this year, I spent two years doing it on my own, and know the kids pretty well. I'm apparently not expected to do anything heavy, such as come up with lessons or anything, I'm pretty much going to just be an "extra". I said I'd do it, partly because an extra adult (especially if R. and his two friends show up) is always handy, plus, I've never been to the camp we're going to- but also because I really do actually enjoy spending time with the kids. I know, I'm nuts.

The conundrum lies in that I have been invited somewhere entirely cool this Saturday night. It is an outing I have done before, and I greatly enjoyed not only the event, but the people.

So just in case there are not enough crossroads of indecision lying around these days, I am unsure what to do.

Let me reiterate that I really, really want to go Saturday night.

So the options are:

1)Just do the retreat weekend. Have fun, get no sleep, come home Sunday afternoon- this is the easiest and least selfish route to go, also was a committment previously made, so its kind of not nice to back out at the last minute.

2)Go to the retreat for Friday night, but drive home late Saturday afternoon to attend said event- a good "split the difference" thing, but relies heavily on my car working, and working well, by Friday.

2)Skip the retreat altogether, and just hang out on Saturday night- since I'm not a main player in the organizing of the retreat, it wouldn't be a travesty if I didn't go, but I would probably feel guilty not going, even though I'd be happy that I'd made it to the thingy on Saturday night.




What to do, what to do??



I think its going to depend on my level of guilt caused by the idea of skipping the retreat....

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