It's just a simple fact of life.
To start off this story, I must show you my driveway. It is very skinny and sharply curved.
And here is this pesky corner as well:
Are you seeing what I'm getting at yet?
No?
Yeah, I don't think I need to explain anything more.
Yesterday was just one of those days. Everything seems to be going great until you smack your rental car into a wall.
On my way back in from taking these pictures I almost stepped on this guy:
Seemingly harmless when viewed as a single incident. But when you had a rather disturbing dream about bugs crawling all across your living room floor the previous night complete with massive, gapping whole in your living room floor, the snail seems like a rather ominous omen.
I also took a tour de force (I think this is the right word and if not it should be) of downtown Glendale on foot this evening. We parked in the structure just across the street from the gym, and I decided to walk a block up to Borders to see if they sold headphones because don't you know it is most uncomfortable to worry about your headphones popping out of your ears when you are just trying to run. The nice albeit misinformed man in Borders told me there was a Target in the mall just across the street. Turns out this mall just across the street only has an entrance around the other side of the block. Then I proceeded to wander around this massive mall for nearly 20 minutes before finally locating said Target. By that time I was utterly and completely lost. The sensible thing to do in this situation was to ask for directions back to Brand Street. The helpful security guard at Target (they have those in California) proceeded to direct me to a point that was at least a mile away from where I needed to go.
However, I can confidently say that downtown Glendale is a rather nice little place. Oh, and I did not have to worry about my well-earned headphones one little bit on my necessarily shortened run.
But luckily, I can even this post out with the good news which I have (with readers in mind) saved for the last in order to end this post with feelings of pleasantness rather than despair in the form of a $580 rental car repair bill, squishy bugs and unnecessarily long sojourns for a pair of pink skull candy headphones.
It was this guys 4th birthday yesterday:
I am officially a great-aunt of a four and a six year old at the ripe old age of 22. He had a Thomas themed party, and as evidenced by his general distraction when I tried to wish him happy birthday on the phone he had a rather good birthday party.
And a very very good friend of mine (that's you jessica) had her first day at her grownup girl job today. I am very proud of her. She has some big decisions to make from what I hear, but I know she will be just fine (and make an excellent choice too!).
Congratulations!
(I think the imagery of this picture is very appropriate. Big decisions, wrecked company car both evidenced in the big scary fish staring us in the face--see?)
I also finished the third Anne of Green Gables book today. Those books make me so happy. Don't get me wrong, I love my thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, doom and gloom, the future is going to be bookless novels, but there is just something so wonderful in reading these books. They are so real. The story seems like is could be my story, or yours, or anybody's story really.
I love reading a story that feels so familiar to me even though I have never read it before. The story is simple, the characters and plots are real. They don't show a perfect life or an ideal world but rather a person who is almost always able to see the beauty in a very normal world and make the best out of even the worst situations.
Here is a little sage wisdom from Anne of the Island which is the book I finished tonight:
"Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them."
Amen to that.
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