Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: I LOVE The Men In My Life!, 1 by kimskreations

kimskreations wrote:
Was having a REALLY hard day today and called my dad. Told him that I didn't get the job I was hoping for and that I needed to drop the truck off for tons of work to be done on it. I asked him to meet me at the garage and drive me home after. On our way home I said "it's my anniversary today daddy....14 years". He is so proud of me it's unreal.

Anyways, I said "do you think that we can stop and see if Lowe's is open yet"? (they have been building one close to us but it hadn't opened yet. Well.....guess what? TODAY was their opening day! I was like a kid in the candy store. FIRST pick of ALL the new plants! Right away I saw some familiar faces and some I had never seen before. I picked up 2 plants and then asked the lady where the potting soil was (which was outside in the outside nursery). While dad and I were out there I saw this guy walk by on the phone and noticed his nametag said Tim. That made me think. I had applied for a job in their nursery over a week ago and never heard anything. The Operations Manager's name was Tim. When he hung up I said to him "Tim, my name is Kim and I applied over a week ago to work in your nursery here". I went on to tell him why I thought I would be a good candidate for the position and he said THEY WERE STILL INTERVIEWING! Can you imagine? MAYBE this is why I didn't get the "perfect" job I thought I wanted so badly.

Got to the register and dad said, put your credit card away Kimberly Ann (I know he's serious when he calls me that *lol*). I said, no dad, I want to buy my own plants. He says "can't I please buy them for you for your Anniversary, it would make me so happy". So of course....I let him as I WOULDN'T let him get me anything for my birthday 2 weeks ago. He was so happy just watching me sit there and pick off the "not so perfect leaves" and knowing how much those 2 plants brightened my day so much (actually it was spending just Me and Dad time that brightened my day but these did add to the memory together) and I will always be able to say....my dad got me these for me for my 14th Anniversary. They will always be special to me for that reason.

Here are the 2 babies I picked up to come home today.

Purple Passion



This message was edited Oct 24, 2006 3:13 PM