Random Thoughts

It has been a busy, busy couple of weeks at work – and yesterday I just didn’t get a chance to blog. I almost missed my opportunity today, as well, but am FINALLY getting to it!

The other night at our guild concert, they took a couple of formal pictures, which were then posted on Facebook. The person taking the pictures tagged me – so all of my Facebook friends could check out that picture, even if they don’t know the person who posted the picture. A good friend up in Canada gave me the best compliment – he looked at the picture, and said he couldn’t find me! (I really wasn’t hiding – in fact, there were only nine women in the picture, and I was standing in the front row.) His comment made me smile for two days!

Yesterday was the Tenant Appreciation Lunch – put on by the owners of the building where I work. This year the theme was Mardi Gras – and a couple of co-workers and I arrived, we saw the photo booth, with no one waiting in line. I urged them to come with me and get our pictures taken – we dressed up with feather boas and just had fun. The cool thing is that we were in front of a green background, so when we were done, we could pick any background, and they would “place” us right in the picture. We chose a hot air balloon – and it looks like we are actually in it! I’ve had great fun showing it to everyone. I will see if I can scan it and post it to my blog (but it might be next week).

As we were eating, one of my co-workers commented on how different I was from the person at the lunch last year (with a luau theme). She said I didn’t even look at the photo booth last year, let alone want to have my picture taken. There has been quite a change in my attitudes in the past year: not just about pictures, but about many things – clothes, body image, and confidence, to name a few. I see this as a good thing.

TOMATO UPDATE: My big plant has ten, count them TEN, tomatoes. The grape plant has three tomatoes, but is loaded with blooms. Yummy, juicy tomatoes will be COMING SOON! And I intend to enjoy every one of them! OK, I might share, but I will eat the first one all by myself!