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shadowkatSometimes life can surprise you with little unexpected gifts that you just happen upon due to being the right place at the right time.
While wondering back to my place with Wales today, we were having a lovely chat...commiserating and completely in synch. Anywho...I found a one dollar and a five dollar bill just lying on the sidewalk. I picked them up, looked around but didn't see anyone who might be missing them. Then in front of my apartment was sitting a bookcase - the right size, shape and color for my apartment. I've been dragging my feet on buying a new one - they tend to run anywhere from 100-150 if you're lucky. And there it was, a little smudged here and there, but otherwise in good condition. Painted the same white as my walls, also oddly smudged in the same places. (Both my walls and the book case probably could use a new coat of paint.) Wales volunteered to help me lug it up the three flights of steps to my apartment, it was light, but I don't think I could have done it by myself. And once inside, it fit perfectly on the other side of my couch, and is the exact same size and shape as my other two book cases. You have no idea how long I've been looking for a book case to match the other two, and here this one just popped up. My downstairs neighbor was moving out and giving stuff away for free on the sidewalk below - this bookcase was one of those items.
Prior to this, I finally managed to finish the second to last chapter of my novel - this is the chapter I've been pecking at for the last month. Now, I only have one chapter left and I'm done. It's currently at 245-246 pages or a little over 100,000 words. And last night I made it through a sizable chunk of my friend's novel.
And just a few moments ago, Wales and I finished watching a film that I'd rented from netflix three weeks ago and had not gotten around to watching - finally we watched it, together, and whined about it together. It's called The Science of Sleep - an abstract French/English art film that doesn't really go anywhere and dwells a bit too much on someone else's dreams. Together - it was treat. Alone - it would have been torture. As Wales put it - "no one's dreams are ever that interesting but our own, don't people get that?"
The weather was perfect, warm but not too warm, cool but not too cool. Some clouds, some sun.
The new restaurant we ate lunch at, quaint, uncrowded, with comfortable chairs, and great Buffalo burgers and fries. No line at the grocery store. Not much of one at the drug store where we picked up a card for her boss' 40th - it was a rather cool card shaped like a martini glass that said Happy Birthdini..innocuous yet appropriate.
Today was the universe's gift to me for a long frustrating week. A little treat to be savored, nothing fancy. Just a treat. Almost as it were saying, hey, I like you, hang in there.
While wondering back to my place with Wales today, we were having a lovely chat...commiserating and completely in synch. Anywho...I found a one dollar and a five dollar bill just lying on the sidewalk. I picked them up, looked around but didn't see anyone who might be missing them. Then in front of my apartment was sitting a bookcase - the right size, shape and color for my apartment. I've been dragging my feet on buying a new one - they tend to run anywhere from 100-150 if you're lucky. And there it was, a little smudged here and there, but otherwise in good condition. Painted the same white as my walls, also oddly smudged in the same places. (Both my walls and the book case probably could use a new coat of paint.) Wales volunteered to help me lug it up the three flights of steps to my apartment, it was light, but I don't think I could have done it by myself. And once inside, it fit perfectly on the other side of my couch, and is the exact same size and shape as my other two book cases. You have no idea how long I've been looking for a book case to match the other two, and here this one just popped up. My downstairs neighbor was moving out and giving stuff away for free on the sidewalk below - this bookcase was one of those items.
Prior to this, I finally managed to finish the second to last chapter of my novel - this is the chapter I've been pecking at for the last month. Now, I only have one chapter left and I'm done. It's currently at 245-246 pages or a little over 100,000 words. And last night I made it through a sizable chunk of my friend's novel.
And just a few moments ago, Wales and I finished watching a film that I'd rented from netflix three weeks ago and had not gotten around to watching - finally we watched it, together, and whined about it together. It's called The Science of Sleep - an abstract French/English art film that doesn't really go anywhere and dwells a bit too much on someone else's dreams. Together - it was treat. Alone - it would have been torture. As Wales put it - "no one's dreams are ever that interesting but our own, don't people get that?"
The weather was perfect, warm but not too warm, cool but not too cool. Some clouds, some sun.
The new restaurant we ate lunch at, quaint, uncrowded, with comfortable chairs, and great Buffalo burgers and fries. No line at the grocery store. Not much of one at the drug store where we picked up a card for her boss' 40th - it was a rather cool card shaped like a martini glass that said Happy Birthdini..innocuous yet appropriate.
Today was the universe's gift to me for a long frustrating week. A little treat to be savored, nothing fancy. Just a treat. Almost as it were saying, hey, I like you, hang in there.
