What better way to introduce myself than to share with you what constitutes a perfect day in my eyes. I happened to have such a day yesterday. For the first time in months, the weather was in the 50's and it was beautiful outside. For someone who constantly struggles with seasonal depression like me, it was as if not only the clouds in the sky had lifted, but the dark aura that is WINTER had been pulled away from my being. My parents would be out until late that night and it would be just me. I couldn't let the day go to waste, and I didn't have anything planned. The perfect setup.
I went to the park and took a few walking trails, and while they were very muddy from all the snow melting in less than a day, it was glorious to be back outside without the coat, hat, scarf, gloves, boots, etc. There was also not a soul around (which made me nervous for a second as I thought how no one would hear me or know where I was if I were to suddenly slip down a muddy mountain to certain doom) so it was just me and my thoughts...and a quick phone call. If you've never gone walking through a serene forest laughing about inside jokes with one of your closest friends, then you haven't lived.
After leaving the woods and cleaning the comical amount of fresh mud off my sneakers in a snow bank, I decided to just drive (with the window open no less! Yay warmness!) and see where I ended up. I ended up at the bookstore. This is what probably made a good day into a great day. I had a gift card (FREE BOOKS!) so I took about an hour browsing this and that, sampling music, people watching, and generally loving the fact that I had nowhere to be and nothing pressing to do for the first time in a while. I got myself two books and a DVD, and headed home.
After eating an early dinner I swiftly passed out while watching a dog agility competition on ESPN 42 or whatever ridiculous number they're on now. The last thing I remember was watching a dog jumping over it's owner's back in time to "Freeze Frame". The phone woke me up an hour later with just enough time to get to work on time. Work was...work. It was stage set night at the Disney Store, which means 6 or 7 people lifting, moving, filling, emptying, organizing, and cleaning up a good portion of the inventory of the store in a matter of hours. The shelves at the store are my worst enemy and never cooperate...never. Everyone else can pull them out with a quick lift up, out and down again, but for me it's up....stuck, jiggle...still stuck, slam....a little less stuck, pound...bloody knuckle, out...stuck in a different, previously unheard of way.... and that's when I call someone over to help me while holding the heavy metal shelf, usually in an uncomfortable or painful position. Needless to say I had an entire wall to rearrange, full of shelves and other movable metal things.
We got out of there at 10:45 PM, and by then the warm day had turned back into the cold hell that is February. I went home just in time to see Robot Chicken (can you say perfect day or what?) and spent a few hours on Facebook.
Sure, I have many examples of what would make up a great day, and this is just one of them. I believe it's a pretty good way to learn about a person, to see what they would choose to spend their free time doing. This blog will mostly be my observations on daily life, the things around me, and the people and places in my life. Hopefully it will be something that both I and anyone who reads can enjoy.
Book I'm currently reading: What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
Last Movie or TV Show I watched: Heroes
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