Today I started with a meditation, but I skipped the lemon and cayenne tea. Just forgot, nothing special. I find that starting the day with these meditations is pretty cool Sets a tone for me to leap off from. I was in touch with one of my childhood friends this morning. She had her heart broken by some reckless guy. What is up with that? Recently, I have heard about this from a few friends. Men are just callous and cavalier with their feelings. Stop that, guys.
Anyway, on to something completely different: Well, today is different in that I am not working this week due to Sukkot. (work at an Orthodox Yeshiva) Not different enough though. I wanted something more - so - I decided to take my son to Boston Market after school. He was hungry and wanted me to take him to get something to eat. We never go there - so - today we did. As if that weren't different enough - we stayed and he ate there! Wow, can it get any better than this!? (sarcastic - I promise to try harder tomorrow.)
As for new - well, I thought I had that all sewn up. I took a jewelry making class last year and I decided that I would attempt to make a necklace today. Now when we took the class we made earrings, bracelet and I attempted a necklace ... twice... but was never successful. So today I decided to be successful. As I came to the end of the string I noticed that it wasn't long enough. After some careful deliberation I came up with a master plan. Manipulate the string so I can attach a second one thereby lengthening the necklace.
"Genius", you say. Well, I'm blushing. OK not so much.
After I finish stringing the entire thing - It is about 18 inches long. I used an elaborate method of stringing each bead and tying a knot after each was in place. It looks spectacular. It took me a while to figure out how to put the little circle on for the clasp, but, finally.... it was finished!
Now to put it on. Perfect! I got up to look in the mirror and it fell apart.:( I laughed so hard. After all that work (three hours) carefully stringing these beads and then in seconds it fell apart. I am sure there is some deep scholarly message in there, but I am refusing to see it that way.
Sometimes that is how it is... you work at something for three hours or eight months and then suddenly it falls apart. You really didn't contribute to the breakdown, yet, there you are holding two strands of beads in your hands looking in the mirror and just laughing out loud.
Laughing is good.
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