friends amaze me

I often travel around the country and run into great individuals; they each have courageous stories and lives of unconditional service.  These people I’m often in awe of their amazement and even wonder if I’ll live up to the same interesting paths their lives have taken them.  In the same world of greatness, I have recently(or beginning of August) been reminded of the love of a true friendship built from either years of knowledge or a deep understanding.  What I realized is that I might not have the great path of existence of some but what I do have are true friends, yes some are even colleagues.   

I’ve been blessed with these type of friends all my life…at many different stages of my life.  Sometimes they come and go (or mostly I go…on that random, hopefully great, wondering path) however what remains is the kindle of fire that just waits.  It waits until we have a chance to breath in pure oxygen to refuel the friendship.  This breath of air is the main point of reasoning of why I travel home so often.  Though I have found that living in DC, interacting via some form of technology…that the fire of real friends is able to burn through any boundary, even distance.

i don’t do technology – phase ii

Well I might have actually come into my Generation X techie hood…  I say this because we all know I don’t do technology!  However I just officially had my first Skpe conversation (end of July I think) and it was awesome.    To make it a notch above the norm we made it into a long distance happy hour…what more can you ask for?!  Good friends, good frosty beverage, good times. 

Anyway, just wanted to let folks know about this big leap for me…who knows, maybe i’ll turn into a techie yet?!  Haha! 

 

P.S. Since we had this conversation I’ve managed to somehow hurt my internet wireless card, had to spend three hours on the phone with HP, and reset my computer back to factory settings for it all not to work.  So I’m back to the beginning of ‘I don’t do technology.’

slippery when wet

Ok, so you know those stupid/funny signs that say ’slippery when wet’?  Well, I think whoever invented them was a genious…or attempting to walk on tile in a downpour!  So the story is something like it was raining buckets in DC, one of those rains that matters not if you have a umbrella.  Actually I think when you do have an umbrella (in this kind of rain) the clouds look at you and laugh!  They say ‘whimpy fool do you know who you’re playing with?’ and then it just rains harder but now the wind blows and the whole umbrella idea goes up with the storm…literaly.  Actually, now that I’m thinking about it; it was be interesting to know how many inches of rain fell that night.  It was amazing that it just kept coming! 

Anyway, so a couple of co-workers and I hunkered down in a dry spot for dinner.  It finally let up a little therefore we all rushed out to face, what appeared to be, lesser elements from an angry Mother Nature, and find our way home.  Well, let’s just say that Mother Nature had other plans for me…I did not arrive home dry!  By the time I got home I was completely soaked…yes, it was raining but what really happened was I fell.  There was no grace in my plummet down a full flight of tile stairs.  All there was of me was a pause, slip, and sploush!  Those crazy scary tile underground steps near my apartment finally got the best of me.  What’s even crazier is that I stopped at the top to remind myself to proceed with caution because steps are slippery when wet!  Haha!

Well, we all know this isn’t the first time I haven’t listen to myself and, unfortunately, probably won’t be my last  either however a very distinct reminder that I have sensors and instincts that I should actually listen too.  I was so black and blue (or greenish at first) on my right side from neck to thigh…it hurt to sit, it hurt to lie down, but mostly it hurt to breath.  Along with the bruising I must have slightly cracked a rib.  However that was only the first wave…

After the bruising healed, my spine and right back muscles felt like they were blowing up!  It was completely different yet very painful.  My ciro said my muscles were spasming so much they were pinching my spine out of alignment…that was causing the shooting pain long my spine.  Thankfully no permenant damage happened when I fell; it just took lots of recovery time. 

Moral of this painful story when your body tells you to slow down, proceed with caution, or slippery when wet…listen to it!  It could be more painful to ignore…