Fadedwords

For the first time ever, I have been tagged!  Erin has chosen me as one of her 8 to complete this meme.

8 Things I’m Passionate About:

1. My job
2. Writing
3. Horseback riding
4. My family (This includes my boyfriend nad my dog)
5. My friends
6. scrapbooking
7. Sleep
8. music

8 Things I Want To Do Before I Die:

1. Go to Ireland
2. get married
3. have children
4. Be debt free
5. have a book published
6. lose weight
7. Own a horse
8. Make a difference in the lives of children

8 Things I Say Often:

1. Awesome
2. Really?
3. Merlin No
4. I need a vacation
5. Hey sweetie
6. Seriously
7. Fuck
8. I need to get that done

8 Books I’ve Read Recently:

1. Up High in the Trees
2. The Rest of Her Life
3. The Pact
4. Widow for One Year
5. Scrapbook etc magazine
6. Why Try Manual
7. Guilty- a story I wrote (revisions)
8. A book a 1st grader made in class

8 Songs I Could Listen to Over and Over again:

1. Anything by Aerosmith
2. Anything by Dashboard Confessional
3. More than a Memory by Garth Brooks
4. Between the Lines by Sarah Bareilles
5. FMLYHM by Seether
6. Stop and Stare by One Republic
7. Broadway Musicals (really any of them)
8. Anything by Lisa Loeb

8 Things That Attract Me To My Best Friends:

1. Their loving personalities
2. Their senses of humor
3. Their open minds
4. The fact that I can trust them with anything
5. Their understanding
6. Their diverse and unique personalities
7. Their unconditional friendship
8. Their acceptance of me

I’m supposed to tag 8 people, but I honestly can’t think of 8 people to saddle with this.    If you’re reading and want to do it, feel free.

So nearly a month ago, I took my brand new computer back to B*est B*uy to get fixed yet again.  About two weeks passed, and I received a call saying that they were going to have to send it back to S*ony for repairs.  This was something I had been expecting, simply because the computer was totally FUBAR’d.

Yesterday I received an automated messaged saying that my computer was ready to be picked up.  It had been about a week and a half since they told me they were sending it off to S*ony to get fixed.  Today I left work and drove the 25ish minutes it takes to get to the store.  Then I waited nearly 40 minutes while the Ge*ek Squ*ad guy putzed around figuring things out.  After all of that, guess what I got?

Told that the computer hadn’t even been sent to S*ony yet.  *cue rays of fire shooting from eye sockets*  I asked why I had been called and the guy said, “Oh, it was probably just an automatic call when the computer came back from our warehouse.”  Seriously?  Are they frigging kidding?  It’s been just sitting here for a week and a half waiting to be sent for repairs.  I had to drive 25 minutes out of my way to pick up something that wasn’t even ready to be picked up.

Argh.

Life is in a perpetual state of change, or so I’m told.  Sometimes those changes are good and positive, while at other moments it seems like you’re at the butt end of some cosmic joke.  

I’ve seen my life undergo some very positive changes over the past year or so.  For example, moving from my former job to this new one was an incredibly positive change.  There are some bad days/weeks, but overall I love this new job and my coworkers.  It is such an incredible step up. 

In other ways I feel like I’ve stalled.  I’ve made very few new friends here.  Every time I get motivated to start working out again, I get something that prevents it (sick, my back goes out, etc etc etc).  The list could go on and on. 

I worry a lot about things that I know I shouldn’t be worrying about.  Some changes aren’t for the better, and I’ve realized that recently. 

There is much to say and no words to say it.  Or perhaps I’m just afraid to.  Confrontation has never been my strong point.

I have always been good at being cryptic though.

I am in love with my heating pad. I want to marry it.

*Yes, my back has gone out again. No, I don’t want to discuss it any further. I don’t have time for this.

I have met a lot of people on line. I read quite a few blogs, I have this site and another more private one that I have developed close friendships through. It is nothing unusual for me to have friends that I might not ever meet in person; it’s just the nature of blogging and putting myself out there.

Sometimes, though, even the most normal and mundane things turn in to something truly extraordinary.
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