Whirlwind Two Days

The past week & 1/2 has been fairly hectic, dealing with my belovedly expensive printer going kaput on me in the midst of trying to get ready for two art shows in addition to simply dealing with the normal life issues.

Come Friday I was wiped-out. I had told myself that I would use Friday day to take care of all the household chores that had been ignored for the past week; laundry, dishes, vacuuming, etc.... I got the bedroom taken care of and some dishes washed and that was it. Around 2pm I decided to hell with it and took a relaxing two hour nap and then awoke with a start when I realised I still needed to go to the store to buy some flowers.

Friday was Yvette's birthday. Yvette being Garrett's mom and a lady I have come to enjoy. When I found out on Wednesday that it was her birthday and that she and Garrett would be coming to my art show at Chroma Gallery....well to say I was happily surprised was an understatement. She wanted to come spend her birthday evening at an exhibit that featured my art?? Damn...not even my best friend would take time off from some uncle visiting to make an appearance. But that's a whole different grumble of mine that I just don't even want to get in to.

So I figured the least I could do was buy her some flowers. I love flowers and believe everyone (well those who love flowers too!) should have 'em around. I had wanted to get her Gerbera Daisies but didn't find any at the market so instead got a small bundle, 4 or 5 stems, of bright golden yellow sunflowers.

You'd of thought I gave her million dollars the way she smiled and Garrett too. All evening he kept telling me how happy I made his mom and then on Saturday too. I suck at accepting compliments, kudo's, appreciatives....it's the whole "ohh gee I didn't do anything" response which truly translates from "ohhh, please don't like me and don't tell me I did something good." I've gotten better at keeping such thoughts to myself and am able to say "Thank you" much easier but internally it's still a struggle.

The opening was amazing with the most people in attendance that I've ever seen at Chroma. I am sooo immensely proud of Paula and her husband Aaron and all that they have accomplished. I found out later that evening that they sold 3 pieces that night, a new record. Unfortunately I wasn't one of the lucky artists but I know I will. My mom was able to make it despite her legs being in bad shape that day and was soon yakking away with Yvette....which only made me shiver wondering what sort of incriminating things she may of been divulging. Mom's do those sorts of things, ya know.

Aaron made a huge impression on Garrett with Garrett spending most of the evening listening to him perform his guitar solo's. I hope that he will take advantage of the free classes that Aaron is offering. As he and his mom were leaving he told me how much he enjoyed the evening and said what a great bunch of friends I had. And he's right. I am truly blessed with the people I currently have in my life and sometimes I get fearful that I will loose it all, that I'll wake-up and it all never existed. Or I'll do something to screw things up.

Saturday I got some more cleaning done before I had to boogie out to Deb & Devon's pool party @ Devon's parents house. I had figured I would be attending solo as I hadn't received an answer from Garrett but then he called me around 11am asking when I was leaving and said he'd be "down with" going. A nice surprise for my day! And which also meant that he'd be meeting a whole different bunch of people from my life. I can only imagine how overwhelming it may of been for him....or maybe I'm just projecting my own bizarre outlook on life. *lol* I was nervous of the idea of putting on a swimsuit, something I'd not done in many years but I took the plunge, literally, although I made Garrett turn around (in the pool) before I jumped in. Ok, so I'm an odd duck, what can I say.

Dang how I've missed being in water. I just LOVE to swim and play in water. My very mischievous side comes out big time when I'm in the water and I blame my father for this trait cause he got very silly with us kids when we went swimming. I did my usual diving under and then coming up right next to Deb, scaring her or grabbing her. Tried to knock Garrett off his raft but well, he's a big dude and the chances of me being able to knock him off of anything is pretty much a hallucination of my imagination!! We eventually got out when the kiddies began to infiltrate and take over, getting some more food & drinks. He made me my first ever gin & tonic, then another one but with some sort of Blood Orange liquor added.

It was after 5pm when we finally left. The weather had been absolutely perfect with the right amount of clouds, some storm clouds on occasion and plenty of sun. Despite the sunscreen I still got lots of pink and was feeling soooo tired and my skin felt like a red-hot poker...this is what happens when one doesn't expose themselves in such a manner. The evening was supposed to have me at Paula & Aaron's for a BBQ but I just couldn't do it and fell asleep by 6pm. It's now Sunday night and I still am mildly exhausted. But it's a happy exhaustion. *big smile*


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