jannid's Journal

Silence, in German - Food TBA
Nov 06 2009 06:28

After work today, I will head downtown to pick up the SU. After dinner, we will go to Discovery Green, Houston's terrific downtown park. Tonight's event is a Silent Film Concert. The show will be the "1929 German classic, Pandora's Box starring Louise Brooks". Music will be provided in the traditional way via live live musicians, but instead of sitting in a theater, we will be sprawled on a man-made grass covered hill facing a stage surrounded by the towering and oft interesting structures that are downtown Houston including our fun duct-work enhanced convention center and the Juice Box (Minute Maid Park where the Astros play during the years that they opt to field a team).

Very much looking forward to this!

As the title says, dinner is unknown at this point. Have left it to a friend to pick the restaurant, so I will have to employ some of my better impromptu food choosing skills and likely make full use of my more relaxed attitude in the process. Sometimes life does that. Becomes out of your control, that is. Not easy for a control freak like myself.

Have slowly learned over the years to only fret and rue those things that I can actually control....ok, not completely, but it is good self talk to see and think those words before going to work. My walking colleague is undergoing a particularly bad down time, and a variety of situations within our employment contribute greatly to that. I found myself sinking with her yesterday to such an extent that I became concerned. This is one of those things I can do something about. Can't help her in her slide, but I can choose to not go along for the ride.

So, borrowing from Claire, my plan for the day, is to not participate in self-defeating conversations.