for a clinical social worker, i'm not very observant.
i live 2 blocks from the court house, so you'd think i'd know the court house when i see it. especially since i have been there umpteen times in my social worker career. not to mention more recently in my personal career. you'd think i'd know the court house when i see it.
well.....not necessarily........
there's a tall building that i can see from where i live. several tall buildings, actually, but one in particular. i think it's the court house. i should know, but i don't. i'm pretty sure, but i'm not positive.
what i do know is that this building, which i'm pretty sure is the court house but i'm not one thousand percent sure.......what i do know is that this building has different colored lights around the top of it, depending on the season or an event. for example, in october, the lights are pink, in honor of breast cancer awareness month. in march, they're green (st. paddy's), and at Christmas, they're red and green.
i always make a point of looking up at this building which i think is the court house but i'm not sure. i enjoy the colored lights. they're like a beacon in the night, telling me what time of year it is. i think of them as my own personal urban lighthouse.
anyway, ever since thanksgiving, i've been eagerly waiting for the lights to turn from orange to red and green. i like the red and green lights the best of all and i sorta expected them to switch the colors on black friday. not because black friday is red and green, but because black friday is (sadly) the official start of Christmas. but they didn't change the lights on black friday.
not on saturday. not on sunday.
not all this week. i had pretty well decided that they wouldn't change the lights from orange to red and green until december 1st. it just sorta started to make sense to me that that is when they'd do it.
not necessarily.........
this morning, when i took my dog out at the ridiculous hour of 5.15 a.m. (because she didn't get the memo that we changed the clocks a few weeks ago).......when i took her out, i saw that the lights on what i think is the court house but i couldn't swear to it (ha! swear to it? court house? get it?)......when i took her out, i saw that the lights on the maybe court house had turned from orange to red and green. on november 29th. a thursday. an ordinary day that makes no sense why they chose that day to turn the lights from orange to Christmas red and green.
and i have decided to look at it like this: i may not know a court house when i see one....
but i definitely know a birthday gift.
