600 Toothpicks and Stolen Flowers

I knew that when I woke up today that the day would be filled with a lot of pain and happiness. There was no way to stop it and no matter how unfair certain parts of this system may be, it is the way that it is and I don't see it changing for a long time. Anyway, I will always remember the defining moments of this day, the good ones where people decided they would go to this good school because it was good and they'd be happiest there (of the places that they got into). But as for the sadness of this day, it is gone. I'm sure it was much easier for me to get over it since I was not opening any letters today that I did not know what they already said but still, I did feel some sadness too.

But. Moving on.

Today, in my mind will forever be the day filled with flowers and 600 toothpicks. This is how it happened. Well Quintin and I were walking back from liberty place. Outside of liberty place there is a hotel with beautiful flowers that smell amazing. So, I decided that I would get some for Quintin. The flowers were one of those ones that has like a big stalk with a lot of little individual flowers. So there were two sitting on the wall of the hotel. So I picked them up and gave them to him. But then we decided that we wanted more. Part of me thought that I could stand and pluck them off but as we began to walk past one, two, three pots, I realized that was not going to happen. So when we got to the forth stalk, I just reached down to my side and snapped the flower at the stem. It came off really easily. But then Quintin and I were left with the burden of walking around with this stalk full of little flowers and no where to put them. So we decided to go to a dollar store and find small jars. We ended up getting toothpick jars (3 per pack, 100 toothpicks in each jar), one pack for each of us. For those of you not so good at math that is where the 600 comes from. Our projected ended up being very beautiful but while walking re realized that there is no one else that we could so something like that with.

Today will be remember whenever I use a toothpick. Today will be remembered whenever I walk past that hotel. Today will be remembered many other times and many other ways but when I remember it, it will contain 600 toothpicks, stolen flowers, and no sadness.