The whiny stuff

The top of my head hurts. I got elbowed there last night, on top of losing. Actually the team lost. I won the ball a bunch of times, made some neat passes, and some not so neat. The team I play on has some people who really make playing the game fun, and some who you just like because they are good at their job on the field. We played hard and should have won by the shots we had but as Cleo the prophetic $3.99 a minute lady would have said "Dat mojo no flow tonight man, no I tell you now yo team nat goin to win."   Damn that Cleo!

The store is a boat  that is developing barnacles. I hate barnacles. Today I scraped some of them off by adding 35,000 extra lumens to the show room. I did this by replacing ballasts and burned out bulbs. Fixed Laura's cave. She seems to be healing from her bout of the ick. Did some repairs and changed a bunch of batteries for customers watches. Worked on some jobs. Thought about how peaceful my life is, and worked on another floating diamonds pendant, the same one I've been working on and redoing for a week now. 

The sappy stuff

I miss Cate. Not all for her talents, but for the joy and love she would bring into the shop. As for her talents,...I've fixed only one thing that came in for repair that they didn't finish, a testament to my pickiness and nagging but also, and mostly, it is the competence she developed over the years to finish jobs that most jewelers around the city wouldn't and couldn't do that makes them first class.  I see all around me a shop that has been touched by art. The pieces she made I look at and study. I'm not thinking to myself that she wasted metal, instead I see lines that tell stories. I remember the thoughts she shared while she made them and I feel good for once.

Left work then went to the park with Pierson to take shots on goal. Afterwards I walked Max, who now is laying by my feet. He's really soft and very nice, too bad he doesn't like kids very much, but at least he likes most people and isn't scared of them the way Kobe was.

I have an incredibly placid life right now. No one is irritating me, money isn't a huge factor, I don't fight with anyone (except for the soccer ball). I get coffee brought to me  almost every most morning from Courtney (Her way of saying I love you in one of a thousand daily big ways.)  My family seems to respect what I do and my friends do nice things for me almost everyday when they stop by the shop. Actually I seem to be in one of those up phases with Courtney. I think about her all of the time in a good way. She's working really hard to make life good and it shows. Some of my favorite jewelry wearing divas email me pretty regularly to stroke my ego and I just can't complain about that. 

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