Another thing to love about hotels…they never run out of hot water. I just took a 45 minute shower and it was so completely relaxing. I’m pooled on the couch like a bowl full of jello. Stress-free jello.
My mini-vacation is on its last night and while I’m sad to be leaving the hotel (and it’s cool air), I feel revived. The heat wave that is supposed to continue this week will no doubt try and melt me into grumpiness, but I’m not going to let it. I may not be able to bottle the coolness and bring it home, but I’m certainly going to back up my much more relaxed and cheerful attitude to take with me.
I tried to reason out just why I’m feeling so happy and while it does have to do a lot with feeling comfortable temp-wise…it also has to do with feeling like I don’t have to do anything to make people happier. I’m a huge people pleaser and it stresses me out when no matter what I try, I can’t fix everything. My big moving project, which ended up going great, involved a lot of stress as I tried to please everyone who was involved. I feel like I spent a lot of hours on the phone making and changing plans and I constantly felt like I was always making someone unhappy.
I seem to be in a certain time in my life where there are a lot of situations like that…situations where no matter how hard I work, I can’t fix everything. I know that life is just like that…not everybody can be happy all the time, not every situation has a fix that works universally. Despite the fact that I know these facts, I usually have been able to make things work out. Just, you know, not lately. Maybe I need to get used to not making people happy. Or maybe I just need to stop making plans.
Watched Gran Torino tonight and while the language and racist comments mean I shouldn’t recommend this to just anyone, it is an amazing movie. I was initially interested in the film because of it’s ties to Michigan. It was filmed here (near Detroit) and Sue, one of the main characters, is Lansing’s own Ahney Her. But as I watched the movie I was impressed with the writing, the acting and the story. It was fairly predictable, but engaging. I hate the cliché of ‘I laughed, I cried’ but it’s very true in this movie. I was surprised how uplifting the end of the movie felt, it would have been easy to overdo the message and be preachy but they managed to make a statement that flowed comfortably with the narrative.
I drove to 6 different restaurants to get dinner including a Hawaiian buffet, a deli/fitness center and a Chinese restaurant that had the shiniest bar I’ve ever seen. I really wanted to feel it to see if it was steel or something but I thought that would look strange. And you know me, I love maintaining an illusion of normalcy.
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