Holes in the soles and some Ben Folds

1. Holes in the Soles.
i worked with mom in the yard building a brick area around our front garden. it's more than laying down bricks... you have to make sure the ground is all even and the bricks fit well and BE CAREFUL that you don't squish a plant in the process. it took a good while.
anyhow. while walking across the yard to grab bricks all day i kept getting dirt or little pebbles in my shoes. as I've been working in the yard this summer I've been wearing my junky little chucks cause they're just my favorite and they're old now so people get mad at me when i wear them in public. they just remind me of all the fun I've had in them though! i should do a blog about all of the memories they bring me. soon. so as i was walking, i kept getting all that junk in my shoes from the holes that have formed in the soles. and i was thinking... this doesn't really bother me as much it probably should. so i was like, that's kinda cool. and then i thought about this analogy of how if we work so hard and play so hard that we wear holes in the soles of our shoes the little mishaps and problems that come (those represent the pebbles and dirt) won't bother us so much. they'll just be something that happens and we'll just keep moving. so i challenged myself in those thoughts to keep working hard and playing hard so that i won't get all worked up about the little stones that get in my shoes.
2. Some Ben Folds.
I'm at home alone right now. so i was looking for tickets to see Ben Folds with an orchestra. i haven't found the tickets yet but i DID find some stuff about a new album that he's coming out with. it's called Lonely Avenue and he partnered with an English Novelist, Nick Hornby to create it. the coolest thing is that the songs are supposed to be a series of short stories about different topics. I'm excited to here this (needless to say).
Also, note on Nick Hornby: John Cusak stared in High Fidelity, which is one of Hornby's books that was turned into a movie! i love John Cusak, i love Ben Folds. so if these guys like Hornby, then I'm going to look into reading one of his books..? maybe. i think that's how Logic works.. I'll look into it.

you can click THIS to read more about the album :)