Exit Stage Left

Several months ago I decided to title all my posts with just one word. And while I doubt that anyone has noticed it's been fun and sometimes even challenging. However, when I decided to do this I also didn't want to use the same word as a title more than once. I wanted to use "spontaneous" as the title for tonight's post, but a quick "find" through old posts told me that I used that title already back in November. The thesaurus didn't really give me any good ideas, so I decided to leave it blank.

This was a three day weekend for me, and while I was technically supposed to work on Sunday for a few hours I coaxed a co-worker into CMA so I could be spontaneous and fly off to California to see some friends (Mike and Mary, thanks again--and still--for giving me the greatest gift ever!). I got into San Francisco on Saturday afternoon and after a small debacle picking up the rental car was on my way to Modesto to see my old friends, Jen and Edwina. I met Jen and "Nini" at Starbucks back when I was in college. Jen was hired about two weeks after me and Edwina came in as our manager after I'd been there for about a year. We were very close "back in the day" and over time and happenstance we lost touch, but reconnected last summer thanks to the beauty that is MySpace. I'd been wanting to go see them for several months, but the timing never really worked out, so you can imagine my surprise when I called them at 11:00 on Friday night to see what they were doing over the weekend....the rest is history.

While we didn't do anything particularly exciting it is such fun to make plans and do things on the fly. Being adventurous doesn't come particularly naturally for me, but I feel like I'm making great strides in being able to do spontaneous things on ocassion. If I could just finagle more days off it would be so much easier.