In Charm's Way

Yesterday was an incredibly bizarre day, in the best sense.

I rushed off the work at 9:30 which is the earliest I have been in since early January. But yesterday was the first of four sculpture classes with my friend, Dan. If you saw Dan, he'd look vaguely familiar since he resembles the I, Robot robots that he sculpted. I was very excited about my first sculpting class and it did not disappoint. Dan showed us how to use basic tools and work with Scuply clay. Our assignment is to model the head of Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas, which is pretty basic. What is even more exciting is that in the class is Mike Belzer who was an animator on said film. At the break he brought in some actual Jack heads he had left over from the movie. He answered all our questions about the making of the film and how they did things. All while we sculpted away.

It was amazing fun and I was so jazzed, I carried that into my therapy session which followed immediately. When I got back to work, I was thrilled to be asked to witness a wedding in the Remembrance Garden right outside the building. Seems that Marlon's friends he had married on Hawaii had to redo the ceremony and sign the papers again. Something didn't translate from the Hawaii wedding. It was such a cute, fun little wedding with their daughter Ruby playing the whole time. As Marlon was doing the paperwork, I learned that the couple is actually from Seattle and were familiar with all the Seattle places I love. I had to stop short of telling them where I got married. For the first time, I wasn't able to tell my wedding story which I am so proud of. That was hard.

After a fiscal check up with the financial advisor, Ben, I headed home to work on my trip to Europe. Over my street was a bright, shiny sphere. I thought it was the full moon until I realized it was only about 30 feet in the air. Apparently a lighting company was testing a new type of theatrical light. And so there I was booking a hotel in Zurich while a fake moon shone overhead on me and my half finished sculpture.

Such is life.