friends – Stars Seen

The Side Job

T often states that she thinks working at her job that she loves is the best way to go about life. And that’s why she works a few jobs at a time. It’s all about keeping your interest and feeding your soul.

What does T do?

T is part time retail. Yup, her outgoing and upbeat personality lends itself to the customer service side of the job. The best part, according to her, is that she works retail at a family-owned company. She works where there are animal feeds and plant stuff. It’s always fun to hear her exclaim about the fertilizer or feed that she’s selling and learning about.

T is, also, a part time library worker. She works on the reference desk mostly and supports the instruction team. The fun part is that she doesn’t have to deal with the politics and she can take it easy while making friends and helping people.

Contractually, T edits videos for a company and volunteers for a cat rescue. More than that… yeah, that’s her life.

Stars Seen is what she does with everything she makes. K coordinates with her despite the two living across the country from each other. But both of them love doing this because it’s a definite creative outlet! 🙂

Feel like you know them better now?

Doing What You Love

Something strange that hit K and T was when people add “work” to what they love to do. The word in itself held no depth of sorrow nor madness, but once it was added, suddenly the feelings related to what they were doing changed.

For example, K had always enjoyed packaging and bottling stars and other products. Letting loose her creative energy on the product and how to best package it had always been the way to go for most of her works. And it was relaxing and fun for her, especially with how well she was getting to know her local Hobby Lobby.

This is not K, but a suitable representation…

But once she tried to think of it as work, it soured. It became less of something she wanted to do but she needed to do it. She suddenly had a deadline and more pressure to make it beautiful despite using sustainable products.

So, she removed the word and it took on the lighter and more friendly meaning of ease and companionable comfort again. Strange how this word would bring her such a change, but she found it easier after that.

Moral of this post is that, once you find something you enjoy doing, don’t try to define it or tie it down with words not often associated with enjoyment, pleasure, and ease. In our culture today, it’s far easier to keep the words you use for different purposes separate. This just simplifies and compartmentalizes your life and what you do.

And for most humans, this is definitely needed. So, thanks for the read and enjoy yourselves. Remember to stay safe and healthy, and keep doing what you love to do!

From Afar

Long distance romantic relationships can really bite one in the butt and make it hurt. For T, she opted to stay in Los Angeles when her partner moved to the East Coast for work. But after a few months, it got too hard, so she put in her two week’s notice, made quick arrangements, and moved out to the East Coast.

This ought to have put K in a pickle because T had, until recently, been less an hour’s drive away. Now, a direct flight could bring them together from 5-6 hours. Or, with layovers, longer.

However, T was optimistic and convinced K that everything was possible still through mail. So, with this optimism that she always seemed to have and use, T packaged all the Valentine’s Day merchandise into a box and sent it off to K.

To K’s horror, the information showed that the merch wouldn’t reach until too close to V-day. But, thankfully, it reached within 5 days, as T had been promised by the USPS. And so, mail did seem to be a very good option for them.

Still, it’s difficult for two besties who often visited, chatted, and met up to catch up to be so far apart. However, K’s kitty is T’s self-proclaimed god-daughter. And K has fond of T’s floofs, too. So, they’re also connected through fun cat videos and photos, and stories, too.

Even more than that, K and T text almost daily. Because of the technology available, they are able to shoot of texts and videos that may seem boring to the passing person, but will excite and make T giddy with glee.

So, yes; though distance separates the two buddies, they’re determined to remain close friends! Which is always possible, given the venture they’ve undertaken together.