Back on Track

I have been a little down lately, but I have decided today to make an effort to get myself together and get back on track. I think my hormone levels are back to normal, as I once again seem able to follow rational thought patterns. Besides, one more day of mopping and I was going to have to stage my own intervention.

I have had so many good ideas while I was in my funk, but I can't remember any of them now. GRRR! I must start writing things down. My friend wants to come over and help me figure out something to do with my hair so I am sure that I will have something good to say tomorrow. She keeps saying that I am going to have to "train" my hair to get the style that I want now that I am natural. I find this notion to be completely ridiculous. Why would I train my hair? Doesn't that go against the implications of natural? My hair is curly, but it is more work to wear it in its natural state than it was to wear it straight everyday because traditional combing and brushing are not happen and I don't have 3 hours to dedicate to a routine. So until I get a 15 minute plan, the pony tail stays.

I have been trying to think of ways to limit the amount of talking between myself and Boss Lady and I came up with a brilliant idea. I think that from now on when she talks to me I should only reply to her in Spanish. I think it would be great and I may finally be able to answer her the way she so richly deserves for constantly butting in my conversations, messing with things on my desk, and constantly pestering and sticking her nose in my business. I then thought of extending it to the entire office, until I realized that there are a few people who would converse back and I don't want to limit my office talk time to just them, seeing as though they are not on the friend list either. Back to the drawing board- my Ipod to be more specific- on that one.

I was in the elevator with these two women who were talking about how one of them is to nervous to say "Hi" to the minister who performed her wedding. Lady #2 asked if she even thought the guy would remember them. Lady #1 responded that she and her husband were the first couple he ever married. Lady #2 seemed like she was breaking bad news when she replied that he probably would remember them. Lady #1 says that is why she never speaks when she sees him. This led me to a couple of thoughts in rapid succession.

1. Was this minister a stranger not from a church they attend?
2. Is she really dodging a minister? Why?
3. Why am I in this conversation when she is clearly not talking to me? (Boss Lady is rubbing off on me.)
4. How come she isn't wearing a wedding ring?

OOHHH...that is why she is dodging him. She doesn't want him to know that they aren't together anymore. I have a few friends who are transitioning from married to divorced and this dynamic has never occurred to me. What about the people who you don't really talk to or see that often that still expect you to be married? I am sure that the minister knows people get divorced, but I get the feeling she doesn't want to go from being his first wedding to the his first divorce. There is a lot of pressure being the first.

That was pretty much my day. I came, I saw, I eavesdropped. Not to bad, if I do say so myself!