[Hollylane]

Last week, I worked OT in a different department, on the second shift. I did this because that team had their team day that day, and needed someone to fill in.

I worked 5 hours of the 10.5 hour shift, with a young gal, that I only know in passing. We had a grand time passing the hours away chatting about our love lives, families, hobbies, etc. I can't even remember all of the things we talked about. Apparently, but not that I recall, we had talked about my interest in jewelry making.

Yesterday, I got a call from her mother, who works in another department. She said that her daughter had asked her to call me (because we work opposite shifts), and find out if I would like her jewelry making supplies, because she just wasn't using them. Of course, I said "YES, I would love to have them." I asked if I could compensate her for them, but she said her daughter had told her that she didn't want anything other than her favorite flavor of Monster Energy Drink.

Today, her mother met me in the parking lot with her daughter's supplies.

HOLY COW!!!

She gave me two huge boxes filled with boxes of beads, pearls, crystals, stones, charms, findings (ear wires, clasps, bead caps etc) in copper/silver/pewter, copper/silver/stainless steel spools of wire, memory wire, elastic for bracelets/rings, tools in different sizes for making jump rings, a jewelry design tray, and gift boxes for finished jewelry. There were also two bead working travel cases with 4 bead boxes in each, the book Jewelry Making for Dummies, and a huge stack of jewelry making catalogs and magazines.

I was grinning from ear to ear, I still am, and I am so thankful that she thought of me. That was absolutely sweet of her. I will not be able to keep myself from reciprocating, with at least a case of Monster Energy Drinks, and a Thank You card. WOWZA!!