looking toward the sky

Before I go on with what I really had to say I have this little whine i want to get off my chest. It is all about how something can just seem so mad you laugh rather than get angry:

So. Today was "national support staff day". I am support staff. You get a special morning tea. It is a lovely idea. Specially as i NEVER EVER get morning tea as i have to work through it. I usually just have a cup of tea while still working (10 mins.). I get a phone call asking me to leave my supporting role (which was doubly hard today for various reasons) and go help make the morning tea. The morning tea for everyone else. Then i had to go back and do the work i didn't do while away making morning tea (while others ate the morning tea). Meaning i didn't even get my own cup of tea in the end.

I think it might be karma telling me to finish my PhD and not be the least important person. Well, that is what my mother would say. She doesn't believe in moaning. You always have the solution right at your finger tips. Reads a lot of psychology books does my Ma.

Now don't think for a moment that i am upset or anything. Just i couldn't believe it happened on top of everything else about this week that has been crazy and crap (like why did this blokes kick over all out bins last night, wreck the neighbours letter box and swear loudly...right when i REALLY needed to be sleeping soundly?)

NOW on to what i really want to say:

What i really wanted to talk about today was something i noticed the other day.

When a plane flies over head i always look up. I don't know why exactly. I look at the plane, notice marking and direction, height etc. I mean i look at it. I think it is a marvelous thing. While outside with a group of kinders the other day i said "look at that plane". None of them did. They could care less! The same thing happened with a rainbow yesterday. They really had no interest in anything that was happening in the sky.

I asked my nearest and dearest little ones about it. They told me that planes were boring. That rainbows are only the sun passing through the rain drops. And then they looked at me like i was taking up too much of their valuable playing time.

For some reason this made me sad. I still find wonder in both these "things up in the sky". I think i always will.

but then i just bought myself a smurfs t-shirt (which i wore to work) so maybe i am not really the person to be passing judgement upon others.....

not only do i look stupid in it but i now OWN a smurfs t-shirt. idiot.