find treasure

Now if it will be warm on one of my days off so I can go use it!

I have a pretty hectic schedule at work and sometimes it can get to me. Lately we have been very short staffed and I’ve to do all my own work plus additional sorting and shelving, which is not hard, but terribly time-consuming and often tiring. Anyway, while fairly irritated with this situtation yesterday and shelving non-fiction (which involves fixing books on the shelf as I go), I heard a boy of six that I helped a few minutes find a book about space run to his mother and exclaim, “Look at this!!! The lady gave me an AWESOME book. Oh My God, can you see how awesome it is. It is total AWESOME!!!”

Working with kids is a real treasure. Although trying at times. Their laughter or enthusiasm for small things always make my day much brighter. I am very happy with my decision every day to go into children’s work.

We went on a ghost tour last night and one story was recounted at the gate of a Unitarian Church graveyard in Charleston. When were back downtown today for lunch, I mentioned that I wanted to return but couldn’t remember where it was located. I had actually gone in it 17 years ago and was enthralled then. Anyhow, we stumbled on it today…the back entrance being a little nondescript gate on King Street directly across the street from the South Carolina Library Society Building. Anyhow this place is fabulous!!! Overgrown and awesome. Life affirming in death. The weather was so perfect to boot. There are many wonderfully old graveyards in Charleston that I have visited numerous times over the years. But I so happy to find this one again and to have rediscovered it with two of my closests friends. Definite treasure was found today.

Well, it’s new to me anyway. I got a 2006 Scion XA and I adore it! It looks like a shiny giant baby tennis shoe. My old car was a 2000 Toyota Echo and I loved it dearly but had put almost 170,000 miles on it. I was only going to get $1000 for my trade-in. Anyway, the guy who sold me my car bought mine for his younger sister for the same amount as the trade in (measly $1000). He delivered the car to her Sunday and she LOVES it. So I am so glad my old baby is not going to be scrapped for parts but instead appreciated by a nineteen-year-old, art student. That makes me feel great about the whole transaction!

a person, a great time, a cherished email…almost anything that makes life better.