you lose some, and you gain much

the sentence below made me snort/smirk/chuckle when i wrote it:

being happy is when all the glitter in your life comes together to form one big, sparkly disco ball.

HAHAHAHAHAA!! but you gotta admit--you love it. and you agree with it.

i'm not sure how in touch with reality i am right now. i say this because something awful happened to me on sunday, and i should have been upset, but for some reason i was able to shrug it off way to easily. and then since sunday, only good things have been happening to me.

my shirt matches the flowers :)

rewind:

sunday--after eating brunch, i got ready to leave for church. i realized i had no cash and my oyster card had no money, so i stopped by an ATM machine. the machine ate my debit card. it pretended nothing happened and went straight back to its default starting screen. and i stood there for a good five minutes, wondering what mode of emotion would be appropriate for the situation. i tried a few--panic, sadness, frustration, anger. but i decided a combination of startled and nervous was what i needed to express. the timing for this to happen to me was awful too, because banks are closed on sundays and it was closed on monday too, due to May Day in London. so i called and cancelled my card, ordered a new one, wrote a letter of liability, and faxed it to my bank. i thought i was going to be all right though, because i could at least use my credit card--so i thought.

nope.

i went out to dinner that night for sushi with some friends. and i swiped my card. and lo and behold, my card did not work. why? because the card expired, exactly that day. the expiration date was April 2011. that sunday was May 1st. what an epic fail! 

so now i am officially broke. with no money to my name in London. it is a good thing i have wonderful, caring friends who are lending me cash until my new card comes! but despite the bad news, i had such a silly time making fun of my situation, and laughing about it with my friends. laughter is definitely the best medicine.

since then, it's only been good happening one after the other.

monday--i got an internship in Philly for the summer! already, it looks like a busy summer meeting with friends, going on weekend trips, and hanging out with old buds!! CAN NOT WAIT. shoot me an email if you're around Philly this summer :)

tuesday--last semester, my job was literally to blog. i got paid by my school to blog for a national art show that our school was participating in. so i did a couple reviews here and there, on artists in the Philly area who were participating in the People's Biennial. well, for some reason, one artist was particularly fond of my review of his photography. i got an email from him a month ago, thanking me for my review on his work. the email itself was exciting to receive--it's always cool getting compliments on something you write [edit: it's hardly a "review" if you think about it...just my silly thoughts]. but on tuesday morning, i found a package waiting for me in the mailroom. when i opened it, i found myself holding one of his original photos, framed and signed. sent all the way to me in London. holy cow. that made me tear up. some people are just ridiculously way too kind. 

in the afternoon, i went to the Kew Gardens because it was my friend's birthday. 

happy birthday, beth! 

 GIANT LILY PADS

how beautiful! all the colorful flowers and the trees were such natural energy boosters. i had too much (many?) happy vibes in me and i had to let it out somehow. cartwheels are good happy vibe releasers.