Yesterday began as just another work day. I typically hate mornings and am SuperGrump until about 10am. I often say I wake up from the outside in. But on the way into the office today, I stopped by a friend's house to deliver her birthday gift. Our friendship is very genuine. We can talk every day, or once a quarter, and we're still right there with each other each time we get back together. Like no time has passed. So as I rang her door bell, and she offered me in for coffee, I knew the day had taken a good turn.
2 hours later, my boss and co-workers have sent messages asking "R U ok?" I work in a very small office, so when one of us is MIA, the rest tend to get a little worried. I texted back that I was just having a slow start and will be in shortly. To my wonderment, I'm told to take my time - that I'm not missing anything important. Being borderline insane, I sometimes need a day or two just to regroup and stop threatening to carve out people's intestines with butter knives. I guess my boss realized I hadn't had a mental health day in quite some time and decided to try to avoid that type of chaos. I did NOT need to be told twice.
My friend and I drank our coffee, went to lunch, talked about everything and nothing, laughed and cried (almost) and basically solved ALL the world's problems at least twice throughout the rest of the day. It was incredible. No one needed anything, no one called, no one bugged the crap out of us asking stupid questions. We just got to BE.
Its not often you get a gift like that. uninterrupted time with someone you don't have to pretend with. Happy happy birthday, M'Kay. Hope it was as good for you as it was for me.