Project February day 2

So last week I was really very supremely derp in my flower-buying location because today I was able to afford FOUR TIMES as many flowers as I got last week.

Yep, sixteen of the little beauties. This picture was taken after I had already given two away.

Since there were so many more flowers, and thus so many more people that I gave them to, I can’t really give you guys a play-by-play of all of their reactions this week. I’ll just say that every single person who received a flower smiled when they took it, and that was enough for me. Most of them were surprised and a little confused, even with it being valentines day and all, haha. But they were all clearly grateful. One man gave me a great big bear-hug, though. He was pretty cool.

Unfortunately I almost didn’t even go out today. I woke up with intense muscle pain in my upper back which even made walking difficult, let alone taking a shower. Mom rubbed my back a bit before I left the house and I took some painkillers and I felt much better, though it still hurt while I was walking around the square. Not enough to damper my spirits, though, haha. I just loved having a reason to smile all day.

I wound up giving away 14 of the 16 flowers to complete strangers. Three of the other four went to some people I know who run stores on the square whom I wanted to thank for always being so nice to me when I shop there, and the last one was a little purple one that unfortunately broke as I was trying to pull it free from the rest of them.

I decided I would wear it behind my ear until I went home, then I would give it to my mom to say “thanks” for being so supportive of me and this project.

It’s sitting in amongst the gigantic bouquet of roses my daddy got her now, being all cute and purple.

I love today, even if my back is killing me.

I love today.

*Caitlin

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