I love it when strangers patronize me...

Isn't that pretty? It's part of the bunch o'roses I bought the other night. They smell lovely too.

And when I bought them, the (older, male)cashier said he hated seeing "attractive women" buying their own flowers.

Okay. This comment came at the end of a long week (and after that long walk pictured in my last post) and I wasn't really thinking, so all I said was, "I'd rather buy them myself than not have them at all."

Which is true. But why did he assume I was buying them for myself? Perhaps I was buying them for someone else. Perhaps I get flowers all the time from other people, and this was a rare occurrence, me buying flowers.

Who the fuck cares whether anyone buys me flowers, anyway?? I don't. I LOVE getting flowers, but I don't base my self-worth on whether I buy them or someone else does.

I wish I'd thought of that at the time. Then again, I'm not really into confronting strangers who make stupid comments in the guise of a compliment. At least I think there was supposed to be a compliment in there, but since I was dressed for a workout and nothing else, I wasn't even considering that anyone would even pay one iota of attention to me.

On another subject: have you been wondering why I keep saying hula's so challenging? Take a gander at this. It's very much in the style of what we've been learning since last July, though we're not nearly this good or this fast, and our chanting SUUUUUCKS compared to what these women are doing. They're goooooood, at everything.

I was pleased to see them breathing heavily at the end of the second dance. Made me feel MUCH better.

I don't think I can adequately describe how hard some of those moves are. See how low they're dipping? Try that. No. LOWER. LOWER. It's never low enough. At the same time, make sure you're working your hips properly AND doing the right things with your arms. It's hard.

But in a good way. I'm so glad my friend Rebecca decided we should do this, even though she can't fit it into her life anymore. I had no idea I'd love me some hula.