hot hot hot..

Today was so hot I was waiting for a blow up from the house today. I managed to come away with only one fight.

I have started working with an independent clothing designer. She is from India and has a masters in textiles and apparel design. Its a really laid back sort of internship and today I was able to learn some pattern making skills and how to use some of the industrial machines. I'm always in the same position when I'm learning a new skill such as I always want to look like I know what I'm doing even when I don't. I don't know why I do this because honestly its pretty pointless so I'm trying to fix the habit. But she is absolutely beautiful and I find myself wanting to impress her with my sewing skills like a cocky gentleman on a first date. I blush and bask in her praise when I manage to conquer the machine.

Besides that at work I managed to escape from the loony pad to clean out my car. At the group home there is the best car vacuum I've ever used in my life. I haven't cleaned my car out in I don't know when. As I was wiping down the dash and sucking up all the tiny rocks I kept on thinking that there could be little rocks all the way from Pennsylvania that have merged and mingled with Minnesota Pebbles. Cleaning all the dust that could have been siting there since the construction site It was actually kind of liberating. Lets face it letting go always is.

Then I found a caramel candy from the night that Tim and I went to the Drive Inn last summer. I couldn't believe it, in fact I think my eyes nearly fell out of my head. The caramel candy melted to stick through travel to Pennsylvania and back, numerous amounts of visitors and I'm not sure but I was almost positive I had cleaned my car since then. In fact I was sure of it when I immediately reminded myself that there was a situation where they had been all over my car and I had to clean everyone of them. Obviously one managed to live and survive through almost a whole year. It kind of made me want to leave it embedded in the backseat of my truck carpet waiting until a whole year has past and I would go through the ordeal again. I scraped it up and sent it through the tube. I could hear it pound against the hard piping until it finally plunked into a large barrel full of dust.

At first it made me want to call him and talk about the piece of candy I found and how fantastic the whole thing was. But then I came to my senses and realize that A) I don't have his number anymore and B) really that's stupid.

But either way, Today I managed to have the best of both worlds. Good old memories and new ones to remember later.