chaz wyman wrote:artisticsolution wrote:I go to Hawaii for a few days and this is the crap I come back too?!
Lance...I did read your response on my vacation but I was too relaxed to reply. I promise to clarify what I meant in a few days after I have wound back up....
Good to be home...
Welcome back. What did you do in Hawaii?
Thanks Chaz....I am sooooo procrastinating! What did I do in Hawaii? Anything I wanted! I have been to Hawaii before so I did all the tourist things many times over...this time we just took in the beaches mostly...we were without husbands and/or kids so there was nothing we felt compelled to cater to... except for ourselves! I spent most of my time in the water w/ Kierkegaard. My friend spent most of her time on the lounge chair with a romance novel...so I guess in a way we did have "men" present...it's just that they were "perfect" men who just gave and didn't require anything in return...not even the remote control!
One thing was strange about unwinding....My idea of unwinding is very different than my girlfriends. I wanted to forget who I was....or rather I wanted to be somebody else other than myself. I wanted to be carefree. She wanted the same but had a different idea of what that entailed. For example...after a long day at the beach...(wind blown hair, no makeup, the faded gloss of worn off sunblock...etc.) I wanted to get a quick bite before going into our hotel room. I must have looked a sight because she took one look at me and said, "We can't go in there looking like this!" I said, "Sure we can! No one knows us in there...and besides...look around...everyone looks like this...we fit right in!" So I go marching in...she comes sheepishly running in behind me....and wouldn't you know it..we got compliments on our hats and my sunglasses! We were all the rage! LOL
Still, even with the compliments she could not relax au natural....when we got back in the car she said, "You need to have a little pride in your appearance!" I just laughed because we are coming from 2 different places. I could care less what people think of me and am even grateful if they don't like me because I am not dressed to the 9's. I think that weeds out the shallow people so I don't have to...as I would not be friends with someone who cared more about a persons appearance than how kind they were...or other such attributes that I find more important.
Anyway....I can feel myself getting wound up again...but not totally yet. Although I am sure it seems like it to most. This week I worked for a woman who had a house that I was excited about...so I was giving her a few ideas of ways to draw interest to some collectable she had. Some of the ideas were my art work...and some were carpentry which I don't do or know anyone who does....anyway.....she laughed and said to her husband....watch her....she likes to upsell!" I suppose she was right...but I seriously had not noticed I was "upselling" I just was excited about her barbie collection and was thinking how best to display it where it looked fabulous. As it was it just looked like an office warehouse...all filing cabinet and old beige monitor type look... It would have been cuter as a boutique look complete with a white w/ black polka dot ceiling and sort of creamy pink blush walls. Her collection was tres 50's and she had a whole room dedicated to it...soooo...why not go with the theme all gung ho...right? I mean if you're gunna have thousands of barbies...might as well...
Okay...now I am wound up...
