Two times in one day?

I feel very good today. I just figured out my Miss Flaversham chapter and I think it’ll work really, really well.  So I’m excited. I’m also eating a delicious spicy beef burrito from Farm Boy and it’s soo good! I will definitely need a tums or two, but I don’t care!

I had a moment.  I was listening to Robbie Williams singing ‘Have you met Miss Jones?’ from the Bridget Jones movie.  And I remembered the silly home video they play at the end of the movie with him singing about Bridget splashing about and whatnot. And it made me realize that I’m that way.  I mean, I’m a handful.  Which can be construed by others as “too much”.

My wonderful, dear friends (of whom at the moment, I think are 3 that actually read this blog, but I pray for more over time) you can never be ‘too much.’  I don’t mean the people who get angry all the time or throw things for no reason. I mean the people who have such an imagination, who daydream (without falling down sewer holes if you know what I mean), who want to and believe they can change the world.  We are so so interesting!  People who always do the proper thing and don’t get emotional about anything… they have no fire in their bellies, no passion in their hearts. Stay away from them! At least until you can develop a thick skin, and let me tell you, it takes years upon years to do that. And if you can’t stay away from them and you don’t have a thick skin, don’t share your dreams with them. They will just try to shove you down and tie you to the ground so you can’t go back up and float in the clouds. Don’t listen to them. Be responsible in your life, but don’t listen to them. Don’t let them tell you you can’t do things, that you aren’t any good at it and that you’ll never amount to anything so just be a lawyer.

Do you know why I brag about the fact that I failed English at Ottawa U? Because you don’t need to have the degree or the honours or the papers to write a book.  I took Forestry for goodness sakes, and while I was brilliant (my words, not theirs) at the tree silviculture and identification and horrible at the maths, I still wrote a book. My dreams came true! I don’t even know what to do with myself except pinch occasionally to remind myself that this is happening!

But I will give credit to my God. Because I honestly don’t believe it would have happened without Him. And I must tell you, He doesn’t think I’m too much. He thinks I’m marvelous and funny and clever and wonderful.

I happen to agree with him.

Ok, I’m done babbling. I don’t even know if this post makes sense because I’m just gushing in the way that I do.

Happy unpredictable day.

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Posted on 14 July '10 by Jenn Kelly, under vaguely interesting things.