My Carpe Diem Report

I stopped and smelled a couple of roses yesterday.

E was out of town for a couple of days and 17 gets really manly when E is gone. We had a great conversation about nothing. He dropped in my office to ask me if “everything was cool.” We chit chatted. No lectures – no questions about school. He didn’t want anything. Nice moment.

I painted while listening to music on my ipod and took a moment to appreciate the fact that I have the time to just entertain myself and pursue something I enjoy.

When I played tennis yesterday I started to get comfortable with the concept of the good miss. I am hard on myself and want to make mad progress every time I played. Yesterday I decided just to run around and enjoy the endorphin rush. Great thing was I had a lot more energy. I realized then that I was so tense trying to play well I was exhausting myself.

Had some legal, work and family trouble yesterday. My afternoon went south in a big way. Won’t go into it, but phone was ringing off the hook and everybody wanted something I couldn’t give them – all at once, it seemed.

You know what I did? I stopped answering the phone. Think my rose smelling made me realize that even if I didn’t fix everything right away the whole thing won’t go to hell in a hand basket. Of course, that does not bode well for today but I’m telling you I’m really working on this calm thing. Like is is always telling me, don’t worry about a problem until you know you have one!

Lorrinda shared a beautiful rose smelling moment on MySpace. She told someone they looked great and she basked in the joy of that woman’s obvious delight.

Saw what you guys wrote here. Any others to share?

Shadeisha, you are pure magic.

Welcome to our new blogger!

09 are you okay? Just asking.

I plan to have a surprise for My Crew on Monday. Learned a new skill. Nothing earth shattering but fun. I hope you like it.

Until then. . . .