26 February, 2004
I have discovered an interesting way to live life. Recently, after a particularly stupid day of computer behaviour, I started looking for work in a Nursery (the plant kind, not the baby kind) to do something that involved physical labour, plants and dirt. I now spend my Tuesdays out Yaldhurst way at Arcadia Nursery potting plants, moving plants around and generally doing planty stuff. I’m always absolutely buggered Tuesday night and, as it’s a somewhat blokey environment, a bit rough around the edges. Topping this off the new inline hockey season has just started up so Wednesday nights are now spent chasing a puck and generally running into people/walls/floor etc. The skinny of all this is that Thursdays are now completely messed up. With a mix of coffee and testosterone rushing through my system, mental fatigue from all this business crap and physical fatigue from labouring away I can happily say that I have no recollection of Thursday at all. I think I had a meeting today but who knows.
This year is about trying new things and generally not pissing around. I’ve got a better handle on who I am and who I want to be. The whole trying new stuff approach to life has also revealed how many dickheads there are around. For some reason as soon as you mention something you want to try people feel the need to outline all the things that could possibly go wrong and why it’s all a bad idea….dickheads. If this all sounds a bit petulant…well..it is really. Some day’s it’d be nice to tell someone something without hearing all the negative crap which, quite frankly, anyone with half a brain would have already thought about. Actually what would be really cool is to tell someone something and hear something positive come back.
All in all though, life is pretty good at the moment. Apparently living a slightly simpler life is the answer to being happy.