Friday, June 15, 2012

A Girl Walks Into a Gift Shop

Two awesome things happened this afternoon, when I went down to our gift shop to pick up a card for a colleague's goodbye party today:

1.  Celine Dion's Greatest Hits was playing on loop over the Gift Shop's speakers. Just brightened my day. And now I get to enjoy Celine's and R. Kelly's melodic harmonies the rest of the afternoon, as "I'm Your Angel" is now permanently stuck in my head. And, like with most songs that get stuck in my head, I only have the chorus of the song repeating through my mind. The last chorus, when R.K and C.D. are making weird oooooo-ing and hoooooo-ing sounds in the background of each other's actual singing. Or in other words, during the best part of the song.

2. I got the card for my colleague for 60 cents. Less than a dollar! I can't decide if that makes me feel proud for such an awesome deal, or like a cheapskate for paying less than a dollar on a card in an economy when greeting cards are usually between $2.99-6.99. Side note: our gift shop has the best prices on their cards! Which is surprising, because gift shops usually over-price everything. But the selection is, quite frankly, pretty crappy, so I guess it balances out.
(post-script: I got him a graduation card, because he's "graduating" from our office and going off to big old law school. In a little place called Haaaaaaaa-vaaaaaard Laaaaaw. We grow smart people here. No big deal.)

Hope your Friday is going as well as mine obviously is. Enjoy the beautiful afternoon sunshine - if you can get outside for a bit (I ate lunch outside, it was maaaaaaarvelous!), and, of course, if you have sunshine to even enjoy - and relish in the fact that it's the last workday of the week! (which matters not to my parents, because they are retired and just play in their camper all day in southern utah...days of the week mean nothing to them anymore.)

And, friends, always remember -

And when all hope is gone, I'm here
No matter how far you are, I'm near
It makes no dif-fer-ence who you are
I am your angel!

I'm your angel.

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