A Bad Start, But a Happy Finish

Thank you so much, those of you who left me such wonderful, warm, supportive comments. They really lifted me up today. And thank you, dear sweet Kim, for always being there for me. Your words are like a balm to my battered soul. I love that there are so many kind, caring, real folks out there! Many blessings upon you all!

Today got off to an even more frustrating start than yesterday. But it all came to a head pretty quickly when I saw that what I thought was going to be a few hours of work, with just some quick fixes here and there, threatened to go into yet another week of work. Now we'd be starting on the 3rd month of this 3-week job and I just was not having any of it anymore. On a simple old apartment? With no fancy work on the menu? Come on now! I ended up blowing up at the poor guy, rattling off a slew of curses, and telling him to just go and I would finish everything myself. Oh he was very upset! Especially since he's supposed to receive the balance of his money, but I'm thinking that this sum should be modified somewhat, being that I've now got to do some sanding and base-coating and at-least-three-coats-of-painting and polyurathaning, and fixing broken tiles in the bathroom, all by myself.

Even though I feel perfectly justified in being upset over this, I still feel pretty bad about the whole thing ending on such a sour note. I mean, aside from the fact that these guys have been driving me insane with all the ridiculous screw-ups and all the forgetfulness, I do think they're good guys and I like them, and I hate that it had to be this way. This thing left me feeling really down today. I knew I had to get out of the house, get away from here for the whole day, and definitely not be alone. So I called a friend of mine and met up with him in the city. We spent the entire afternoon together; we went for brunch, walked through the park a little bit, then went to catch a movie. Now I've seen Angels and Demons twice. It was either that or Year One, which I would have loved to see, but he just was not into that. It was a lovely day, mostly sunny, too! Though it did begin to sprinkle at one point, for a very brief time, It just can't seem to go one full day without any raining at all.

While we were in the park, I got to take some photos of one of my very favorite trees (my favorite one in this particular park). Look at him, isn't he beautiful?

He reminds me of a wizard.

This next one is surely a she, no? Check her out, flashing her femininity shamelessly! She's making me blush!



These two are very close in proximity to eachother in the park. They remind me of Merlin and Morgan la Fay.

This is a little shop I love to stop in when I'm in this neighborhood. It's called Obscura and it's a veritable cabinet of curiosities. It was closed today so this is the best photo I could get, though if you click on the name, above, it'll take you to their site and you can at least see a glimpse of the inside.



A very happy 4th of July to all who celebrate it, and a wonderful weekend to all!
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