on others.

This weekend I was social.
Not that I'm anti-social, but a few weeks ago I was feeling a bit sad that I didn't have a lot of intelligent people to spend my spare time with.

Well after that post things started to change.
Last weekend I went to a wedding cake testing with a dear friend.
Afterwards I went on a much needed field trip and spent time in the company of people I deeply enjoy.

This weekend I spent most of a day helping a co-worker paint her new home. (I'm a great painter by the way-and I'm not bragging, I really am.)

I spent most of another day with one of my former co-pilots and his family. On second thought,I think maybe I was his co-pilot.

And you know, there is no way to convey how happy I am that I know people who I can spend large blocks of time with. And the part I especially enjoy is the fact that I may not see these people every day, week or month-but when I'm around them-I feel good.

Because when you're around people you enjoy-the little things are funny. With them we can talk about things we've done before. We can laugh about me blowing a bubble and having it fall from my mouth to the ground & the two seconds it takes for me to mumble, "damn it-not again", as the fully inflated bubble sits there sticking to the tile. And we laugh, yet I continue to mumble with people walking by wondering if the feathers in my down vest have gone to my head.

And we can laugh about the time we wrote a 2 dollar check and deposited it in one account so that the balance would equal 20 dollars--so we could withdraw it to go buy booze. After which, we could then go & sit on our patio and watch people walk by and laugh about daily events. Why we didn't just use our debit cards to buy what we needed is beyond me-but then again who needs rationality when you've got booze?

I know I've rambled, but I just wanted to share: I have much to be grateful for.

Laughter. Dear sweet laughter.

posted by Danna Saunders @ 11/21/2004 08:37:00 PM