sunshine

We have had three absolutely beautiful days in a row here. Wonderful! The sun shone, the sky was blue, and I even found some perfect little snow drops (white flowers that come out in the winter, for those of you who don't know) at the base of one of our trees. I cut a few, and so did my roommates, so we now have fresh flowers inside in January.

Friday was our staff retreat, which I was involved in planning. I missed one of the meetings and so was saddled with some of the less appealing jobs. Such as figuring out what to serve for snack. They wanted fruit. That was fine. Except for the fact that the retreat was in Washington (about fifteen minutes from my house--I can see across the border from the end of my driveway.) And you can't take fruit across the border unless it has stickers saying it was grown in Canada securely fastened to its exterior. So I called up a few places in Lynden, and ended up ordering doughtnuts and a fruit platter from a few places in Lynden. That was fine, until Friday morning when I had to run around, get lost at least three times, and arrive an hour late. Ah well, it worked out okay. And the retreat was nice (although I wasn't a big fan of the speaker.) I did a hike with some other teachers to the top of the mountain (a little mountain) call Haystack, and was able to see the woods in which my house resides from up there. We could also see all of Abbotsford, and West to Vancouver, as well. It was pretty cool.

I've been pondering something one of my co-workers said to me on Friday. Well, two things she said to me. First she said that she didn't feel like she knew me very well. I've been thinking about that. This person is someone I talk to every day in the staff room, and have even confided in on occasion. I'm not sure what to conclude. That I'm hard to get to know? That's probably true. I'm pretty guarded. Scott often makes me feel uncomfortable (but in a good way) because he's so totally open and not guarded at all. He says things to people he's just met that I would never dream of telling someone I've known for my whole life. The other thing she said is that I seem very confident. Not arrogant, but confident. Huh. I don't feel very confident most of the time. Usually I'm feeling like I'm half-drowning and really have no idea what I'm doing. But I suppose to other people I appear confident. I've sort of developed an attitude of well, if I don't quite know what I'm doing, I'll pretend that I do, and hopefully fool every one else. Apparently I got her. It's strange how much you learn about yourself from the observations of others.

This got long--sorry. It was the anniversary of Scott and my first date yesterday!