Day 270: The date is coming

When I got into work today I was greeted by the newest member of our team, and she is a very upbeat girl.

I can't imagine having a bad day with any of the people I'm surrounded by right now, especially this one.

She's so happy, within less than an hour of us getting to know her we decided we'd just call her Giggles.

What fun she is! Everything is funny, and her laughter is contagious.

I don't know how I managed to do a 180 with the people surrounding me, but it happened.

We were all pretty much depressed and had given up in our previous situation, and now that everyone is gone, it's a new crew and we're full of life and energized... like a dark cloud has been lifted.

I feel very blessed to be able to do what I love, and actually love it again.

As I headed out to lunch, and to finally pick up the cats medication that I've been putting off for 3 days I gave the Encourager a call just to briefly catch up.

She told me she was going to give the guy who looks like my brother my number so he could call and set up a date.

I lobbied for a group meeting with others, but she just said 'you do enough of that why would you want to waste your time.'

Wow, it really has been a long time since she (and many others) have been in the dating world.

Meeting someone for a date that you don't know and have only seen pictures of is a bit intimidating, getting to know them in a group setting where you can walk away and so can they can be a good thing.

But she's not an easy one to convince so I usually give up before I even try, which is fine, she usually knows I need a little push and I end up all the better for it.

But we're also getting close to the early tea leaf deadline, which would be 16 days. I think that falls late next week, and when you consider trying to coordinate a date with 2 busy schedules that's a real possibility.

I'm also a little weirded out that she wants to set me up, because she calls me Cinderella when I make it to the gym.

I know that's taking the tea leaf thing very literal but sometimes those small connections add up and mean something but you just don't realize it at the time.

Once I got back to work, I needed to get tickets for the baseball game when I'm home this weekend.

It's just me and my mom, and she had some coupons that I knew she would be happy if I used. So I started scouring, and the only tickets I can find are on the 'party porch'.

I kept yelling at my computer (ok so it was more of a stern talking to)'but I don't want to sit on the party porch!' but it wasn't going to happen.

I looked over and over on a few different sites, and seat levels but those are the only seats available.... so in 2 days I'm going to be hanging with my 75 year old mother on the party porch at a baseball game.

Another sign perhaps? Maybe? Sometimes I think I see a few too many signs but in my head it's better to be aware than oblivious.

Once I got that task accomplished, it was back to work then time to head home and procrastinate on the packing.

The procrastination started before I even got there, when I decided I needed a new bag for my 48 hour trip.

That makes all the sense in the world right? Absolutely not.. it makes no sense whatsoever.

So I popped into the discount store to see if they had a cute small bag, and I'm so happy I did!

Mostly because when when I pulled into the parking lot I looked up and saw the pet store and realized I was completely out of cat food!

Holy cow! I've only been thinking about it for 24 hours how could it have slipped my mind?

So I managed to get a super cute zebra striped weekend bag and the cat food so all is right with the world. Now if only I can get packed before midnight!