Sometimes I Surprise Myself

It's true.

I'm awesome, I know this, however sometimes I am pleasantly surprised by how cool or grown up I am becoming. 

Like climbing this last weekend for the first time in months (far too long ago) I did a 5.11 in good time and I only banged my knee against the wall once the whole time at the climbing gym. 

I know, cool, right?

Or the time a few days ago the girl who threatened to get me fired* apologized to me for her behavior. I was gracious, accepted her apology and told her in a polite way that I didn't appreciate what she did. I almost danced around and asked her if the higher-ups she plays puppet for told her to lay off and apologize but I'd like to think her motives were at least somewhat altruistic. This Christlike thing is hard sometimes, ya know?

I'm especially proud of the time at church I saw a boy who had sort of been flirting earlier in the week sitting next to a girl who seemed to be all over him and kind of catty to me. My gut reaction was to be hurt and cry. Then I thought about it, if they're happy then more power to them. I don't have control over their actions but I do over my own; I can let them be and build better friendships elsewhere. What freeing thought, and it came to me in the moment too! Usually it takes some time for me to process stuff like that in such a good way. I'm cuter than her anyway. 

These are next on my list to get

My most favorite "awesome I'm cool moment" is the tea exchange/tea party I hosted this weekend. It was a bring your own teacup and tea to share if any. I love that I have friends who like drinking tea and will share that--and some who are adventurous enough to go along with me on these things. I love herbs, tea and more recently teacups, so being able to talk about the different types to choose from, the best things to add to a cup of tea, and see the different types of teacups everyone brought was so fun. Also we ended the night with silly string and sparklers. That was pretty cool too. 

 


*I doodled on the job. Terrible, right?