a humbling experience

To put up my client's bulletin boards is truly a humbling experience
(To explain why my client needs bulletin boards every freaking month is something I cannot fathom also so I wont even try to explain)

Every time my ego becomes a little bloated or I think I'm already too good and way past manual labour, the paper cuts and pin pricks and sore muscles I get from installing them always brings me back to reality. And I won't even talk about the teasing I get about how my height is not proportionate to the boards I'm installing because that's a whole other post about height discrimination and the joys and pains of being vertically challenged

And I promise myself each month that I'll get someone else to do this next month and I always declare that my Mom didn't send me to college for four (oh right, five) years just to cut and paste and pin stuff that I really don't care about, like a high school student. Come to think of it, I don't recall making bulletin boards in high school because I've always thought they were lame (plus I was never really artistic or creative in that sense)

But my point is this...

Do something every once in a while that will humble you and bring you down from your high horse. We should never be too good for anything, because, hey, we all started from the bottom, we all got our hands dirty, so don't go thinking you're better than anyone else (unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, so i hate you, so stop complaining)

Reality check? Check!

a near perfect day would be...

...sleeping the night before to the sound of Azure Ray

...being dragged out of bed by exercise enthusiastic officemates to run in Amoranto Stadium

...pushing yourself beyond your limits, or the limits your mind set on your physical body

...running to your own beat, ipod in hand, not caring about whether you look horrible while sweaty and out of breath

...gulping down a bottle of gatorade after an exhausting morning and it's not even 10am yet

...cooking your own version of cornsilog as a reward to yourself

...going to a job that you love and working with people you love or are fond of

...sharing your pancakes with your officemate's cute kid while she's sitting on your lap and waxing poetic about how pancakes are so yummy

(the near perfect day was marred by the overwhelming, excruciating pain of your teeth fillings accidentally falling out without your knowledge)

...having the overwhelming, excruciating pain mentioned above removed by your nice dentist who is probably the best dentist in the whole wide world because she's the only one you allowed to touch your teeth

...sleeping at 6PM, then waking up at 11PM, thoroughly drugged and out of it, but well rested and happy that the pain is finally gone

...falling asleep while playing mystery case files ravenhearst and listening to kings of convenience

who says you need a lovelife or money to keep you happy? you just need to find what makes you happy, be it the mundane or the profound

here's to happiness!