People are sunshine

Everyone in New Zealand is probably feeling like me this week. Soggy and missing the sun. In fact almost depressingly so. It has only been 5 days since the sun shone on my skin but it feels like months. However, yesterday I had a 'sunny' day amidst the drizzle. I know I need people to keep me energised and happy and I work with heaps of people everyday but yesterday I had two opportunities to spend time with new people and I felt fantastic by the time I went to bed.
Firstly, Alex asked me to join her at her BNI (Business Networking International) breakfast meeting at The George. I was a guest and just loved sitting around the big table listening to a group of motivated hardworking people talk about their businesses and enjoy each others company. Thanks to Alex I was injected with a dash of sunshine that made my work day.

In the evening I went to my first upholstery class. I had booked it to give me something to do in the evenings other than sitting on the sofa watching tv. And it was really fun. I took the piano stool along and along with eight other women, I spent the night chatting and removing tacks from my project. Being in the woodwork room where I spent three happy night class years was a bonus.

I am planning to head out in the weekend to find some fabric and buy a few tools. Silly to be excited about that but nothing like learning some new skills and meeting some new people.
In between my injections of new people I managed to clean 500 emails out of my burstingly full in box and had some great emails from friends when I got home. So in all a really good day.
People really are sunshine in the winter so make sure you see lots of them.