You can pick your spouse. You can pick your friends. You can even pick your nose. (Ooops, sorry - I'll save that for another day. hahaha) You cannot however pick your coworkers. And you cannot pick your coworkers noses. Sorry... its just Monday. Forgive me.
Anyway, where I was going with this was... We wind up spending an extraordinary amount of our waking and productive hours each day surrounded by people we didn't choose. Thank God he has a sense of humor and knows what we need in life. I've been blessed many times over at different jobs when he sends me such a unique group of people I would never have gotten to know otherwise.
Folks who know David and I well know that especially the past few years we've become very much creatures of habit and BORING. Our idea of an exciting dinner is having Machs instead of McDonalds. I mean, really?? I guess God knew I needed a little excitement because my current group of coworkers are truly fun. They are from all over the Houston area and know lots of cool places that of course I've never been to. For each person's birthday at work, they get to choose the place we go to lunch and I have never failed to really enjoy myself. Today we had a birthday lunch at Barnaby's Cafe. It was a funky little wood frame house converted into a restraurant in an interesting little Montrose neighborhood. We were driving along... house... house... house... whip and chain shop... house... house.. NO, I'm not kidding! Anyway, the little restaurant had seating for about 150 and parking for about 5. Good thing our table was near the window so I could dash outside quickly if any tow trucks approached?
The restaurant did a neat little trick of sticking some old trivial pursuit question cards in the sugar/sweet-n-low container on the table which we had way too much fun with answering questions while waiting for our food (yes, I'm a trivial pursuit junkie from the 80's - yay!). Of course stick me in an environment like that and I can entertain myself for hours just people-watching. Let me just say... apparently the feathers in the hair trend is not just for ladies anymore? heehee I'll not even start in on the piercings and tatoos. And the old funky nature of the building itself was interesting. I've known places to have a slight tilt to the floors before, but their dining room was off the charts. I wonder if they grease that thing up before the drunks come in to get a laugh or what? We agreed the place had "character" and the food was good and inexpensive too.
I realize I've talked about a couple restaurants already and believe me I don't intend this blog to become a foodie chat but it just happens to be the most interesting thing that's happened to me so far today. Okay, yes, I know the day is not yet over and I still may have ammunition explode in the dryer or something. But the moral of today's story is... appreciate those different people God puts in your life, people you probably would have never chosen for yourself, because they are a treasure! And even if you happen to be in a crappy place in life at the moment, just count it as fertilizer to bloom where you're planted. =)
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