I think I will try and document the little (and big) things that I remember that happen as seeming coincidences, because of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency TV show and The Tao of Pooh book...
So today I had some stamps and a pocketful of dimes (from when we dumped out the Teddy Bear bank looking for laundry quarters) and two packages to mail (one to return the purple pants to Amazon and alsoYvonne's birthday present). The extremely nice post office gentleman helped me add everything up and I paid for the first one from the handful of coins I pulled out and put on the counter, and then put a few more stamps on the present (wrapped in horse gift wrap) and started counting out dimes and then he said how much I needed and I had exactly that amount. We both marveled at the fact for a moment...I asked if they were open on Saturday (because the website said they may be open, but wasn't sure) and he said of course nor, it's a holiday for veterans like himself! And I said oh, congrats (??it just came out of my mouth!!), and thank you, and then tried to remember what the actor and director of the new post-traumatic stress syndrome movie said to say, so I added What branch and where did you serve? And he actually told me about the Marines for a minute which was great, because it did sort of start a conversation, even if rather superficial. He said it was like forty years ago and he doesn't know any of the people still and I said wow, I've known Yvonne since we were seven (second grade) and that it's been OMG, forty years, which is both ridiculous and amazing...
I had enough to go pay my library fine (from keeping Grady show DVD for so long) but I decided to stop and get Steve a chicken shwarma (though what I really got was a lamb gyro-I always murder that word when I try to pronounce it...) from the yummy place we love and rarely get to (also two cans of pop; Coke Zed and Diet Coke for moi). I don't think this is really a big coincidence, but as I was walking home past the Costume Shop I looked into the store and saw one of the types of masks that we were learning about in drama class (for commedia dell'arte), so I just popped in to ask the price and the (owner, I guessed) person told me unprompted all about the shaping of the masks for more European faces, as they were made in Italy, and that their bone structure and noses were different, and that the ones from Japan were also different, made for Asian features. It was quite interesting! The mask was $67.00.
I know there was at least one more thing...well, it was raining a lot and then it didn't rain at all on me during my stroll to and from the P.O. OH yeah! I haven't even thought about Dress for Success in quite a long time. They were instrumental in helping me to feel more confident as a job candidate and helped me out with some free clothes, hair products, makeup and workshop meetings. And also some free food for last Thanksgiving! So when I had time today I went on the computer in the other classroom and wasn't even planning on checking my emails, but I wanted to send a YouTube video (of The Danish symphony orchestra performing a suite from the Star Wars movies music) to the teacher and it automatically opened up my email inbox, which made me decide to start doing some deleting finally, and that's how I happened upon a Dress for Success invitation to attend a workshop lecture this Saturday! So I R.S.V.P.'d because I could really use the inspiration and positivity that those meetings provide. I also found out that they are having a grand sale where all their clothes will be available for purchase soon as a fundraiser. Maybe I can finally try to replace that amazing wool maroon pocketed long sweater that I accidentally shrunk to the size of a dog sweater last year after having worn it only twice. It's one of those clothing items that you just don't forget.
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