Today was a strange day. Strange in a good way. Let me try to explain. I was at work chugging along booking rooms, answering the phone, planning menus and the woman I'm replacing wasn't in today. I was on my own for the first time. And things just started clicking all of a sudden. I could look at my caller ID and recognize extensions and the names that belonged to those extensions. I didn't have to refer to my room capacity chart to see what kind of meetings would fit in certain rooms. I could quote pricing from memory. It was like a perceptible shift in my universe had happened, like the gears were slipping a bit yesterday and then today I'm moving at full speed. It was awesome.
And there was a lot of smiling today. Not that people in Sydney are not nice, they just don't seem to smile at other people much. I used to pass the same moms with strollers at the park almost every day and I would always recognize them and smile, and get nothing back. But today, people were nodding and smiling at me all day. And not just when I was walking Bailey. I mean, how could you not smile when you see this pup?
But people were smiling at me when I was just walking along by myself. It was so weird. Good weird. And I didn't look like anything special today either- light make-up, hair in a bun, work clothes. I didn't look particularly radiant. I get dressed and do my make-up pretty much in the dark as my Aussie is still sleeping and it's not light out.
Hey, I'm not complaining. Keep the smiles and friendliness coming. I prefer that to rudeness and scowls and blank faces any day. It was just bizarre because the change was so noticeable to me that it was almost physical. I'm not sure if my words are doing it justice. I just know that I'm moving in the right direction.
That's really weird because I had a day today that was a little weird in a good way: making interesting small talk with strangers in line at the grocery store, feeling good at my audition and talking with other girls waiting to audition too, going to Crate and Barrel and having a really helpful employee - okay, maybe the last one isn't so weird cause it's his job and all to be nice. But there was a definite sense of openness in the air. It's kind of nice to think that on the other side of the world, you're experiencing similar "air." Hope everything keeps clicking for you today!
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