TerryDoolittle wrote:I stopped at the Build-A-Bear Workshop in the mall on the way into work this afternoon because my bunny needed a few things. (She sits on an eye level shelf above my desk in my office and has on either a nightie or a dress depending on what my department decides to put on her. Every time I go to my desk, I notice that her legs are open and she's "showing her all." I keep thinking she needs panties.) Anyhow, I brought the bunny and the bag to lunch with me so I could put on her new things. Before I could do anything, my pal Joe walked into the room, sat down, noticed her, and took her from me. He then proceeded to redress the bunny with a look of intense concentration on his face. I've still got the giggles. I mean, how often do you see a 25 year old man dress a stuffed rabbit? I shoulda' had the camera!
That was a cute story. <smiles> Made me smile ...
There was a little something that made me smile on ... Friday, as well. You know, I dont have a cellphone, I never got one. Well, I got one on loan from my father, but I lent it on to Anastasia, cause she hasnt got a phone at her place at all, so she needed it more. But last month, I finally gave in and took one myself. I'm a total idiot with these things but I found out how text messages work.
Now on Thursday and Friday, we had our work's "forest days" (for long-term reflection & all that bull). Actually, it was quite cosy & enjoyable (in between the bull). Plus, it really
was in the middle of the forest. So when it ended early on Friday afternoon, I decided to walk off and out into the woods, by ways of unrubbing 23 hours of group activity off of me. It was pretty, in an understated, highway-roaring-in-the-distance way, and I was quite quickly lost. Thats OK, its Holland - you find your way again soon enough. It just meant a longer walk, an hour or two, two-and-a-half, into the dusk.
I didnt see any deer this time. But I saw a rabbit - just the one. And - I got to text-message Anastasia about it (who asked back about whether it'd been big). That was a cute, weird little thing to do - the discrete beep of real-time digital connection in the woods ...
(here's this boy, walking down a wooded lane all by himself, while its getting dark - and at the very moment of timeless wonder (however slight), he throws out an oddly modern lifeline back to a friend, somewhere away ...)
I am a text msg freak myself, and if anything strikes me as cute, charming or odd, the first thing I do is to whip out my phone and text my friends to tell them abt it !!
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