pivot

i'm so fortunate. i have such great friends that it makes my face hurt. seriously, on many occasions today my friends have made me beam with glee. this morning while i was reading an exciting email from melissa, the knickers came to my cubicle, so i quickly minimized the window. i had this full-face smile on and she commented on it because she thought i was smiling at my computer. i think it's funny that she literary assumed i had a crush on my computer (she told me that!), instead of thinking i was up to some mischief. i just told her i was thinking about something, and then probably blushed. anyways, my friends make my face hurt from smiles they provoke. i have face-hurting friends!!! :D

this evening i rushed home from work to begin some manual labour. i got on my hands and knees scraping the surface of my balcony. then i painted it with a first coat. it looks great! and i enjoyed myself a great deal. i love working with my hands and being industrious. i think painting a floor (on in this case, the floor of a balcony) is the easiest kind of painting because you're just pushing down. ceiling painting is the hardest kind there is. i'm gonna do another 2 coats, maybe even 4 depending on the weather. i have quite a bit of paint left, and i think i should err on the side of too many layers, because my last paint job of 2 coats only lasted one season.

frig! it just happened again! i just got an email from yet another awesome friend that totally cracked me up. i think i'm spoiled with great people in my life. after i finished painting bren stopped by and i enjoyed having a visit with her. seriously, i'm very lucky girl. i'm totally gonna have an excess of laughlines and i don't even care :)

i did something today that reminded me a lot of my mom. part of me hated myself for it, but part of me thought i was good advice. i suppose i'm an apple that hasn't fallen far from the tree. as i move forward from here, i need to be careful and thoughtful so that i don't do or say anything i shouldn't, even if my intentions are good.

you know... i'm suspicious. hmmm. but that's ok, i like a bit of mystery.

you know he got the cure,
but then he went astray.