Neither my husband nor I grew up learning how to fix or build anything except for teeth. With the help of YouTube and helpful Lowe’s employees we are learning and getting things done 💪.
It’s shocking how satisfying it is.
I think I just got the human equivalent of a cat bringing a dead bird to its person as a gift.
We have an incredible Hawaiian handyman George who has lived in a tent on the beach for the last 9 years. He is a serious, guarded and surly guy who has not softened towards me in the 5 weeks he has been working for us despite my cooking for him, going out to buy snacks or treats he mentions, buying him a new cooler and filling it with ice every other day, and working alongside him daily, etc until TODAY….
He just left a joint with a note of thanks on my nightstand 😂😅
Open heart surgery at the age of 7 in 2017. First triathlon in 2022 and a 4th place finish today.
The anguish and fear I felt for so long over my baby boy has been replaced with a living reminder that miracles exist 💗
Someone close to me has her mood completely tied to the performance of her stock portfolio. She has had some giddy days in the past several months, but yesterday she couldn’t get out of bed with the market bleeding. Why would any tie their happiness to something they have zero control over?
I’m back home from Nashville and I have so many thoughts, but keep coming back to this from the Big Short:
"While the whole world was having a big old party, a few outsiders and weirdos saw the giant lie at the heart of the economy, and they saw it by doing something the rest of the suckers never thought to do: they looked."
Thank you to all you outsiders and weirdos who have taught me so much and made me laugh until my sides hurt. You see the lies and know it’s only a matter of time until the system breaks.
We aren’t the crazy ones; they are. 🧡