My solitary start to '09
This day was a holiday. Both literally and in the way I spent it. I never left the house. I got up at 2:45pm (!?!) after dozing off on the couch about 5:30am, going in and out of consciousness till like 9:30am, then "going to bed"...where I continued to not sleep well. Breakfast at 3pm. An empty apartment. Sitting online, watching TV. Extremely relaxing. EXTREMELY. Much needed. TOMORROW I'll tend to the setting priorities, refocusing, actually leaving the house.
Today REALLY was about...Facebook. The PERFECT day for it. A couple of fascinating and funny chains about my disgust with 2 pressing issues. First, people who toss their Xmas trees to the curb on New Year's Day. Then, how newscasters constantly say "AN historic" instead of the proper "A historic." Pughy felt compelled to chime in and say i'm wrong...and has been arguing with me for hours since. I am RIGHT!!
But then things took a turn. I was friend requested by someone I worked with at CVS some 15 years ago now. Sigh. I have long wondered about a lot of those people...occasionally searching for some of them. I actually don't know a lot of their last names, or have forgotten them, as awful as that sounds. I'm hoping tonight's friend connection starts changing that. But then things REALLY took a turn. I found out SO randomly through this old CVS friend that a local cop who died in a car accident in September was 1) a high school classmate's brother, 2) was IN high school with me, 3) WORKED with me and 4) dated a good friend from work. It's crazy how 4 months went by without me knowing of my connection to him...being how much media coverage the story got. It's all I've thought about all night. There he is...in my yearbook. He was 2 years younger than me. Yet I didn't "know" him. I remember his face, though. And it just dawned on me a little while ago how I remember my work friend constantly mentioning his name during their courtship...this 15-year-old memory.
It's all so beyond crazy and random...every bit of the story. Far too complicated for me to properly get into now in the middle of the night. But it's terribly, terribly sad. And, I felt, a perversely appropriate cold glass of water to the face on the first day of the new year...a reminder, AGAIN, of how precious our time is here on earth. How there's no guarantee we'll see 2010. Or even tomorrow. And i'm NOT being negative or cynical when I say that. Not at all. It's just FACT. And I accept that as much as one can, and try to let it color the way I live my life. Try. I'm not perfect. But I try. Every minute breathing is a gift...and i've made it to 2009! Happy day! I wish myself and all those I love and care about a happy, healthy, mischievous, prosperous & well-balanced 2009! Time IS of the essence!
Today REALLY was about...Facebook. The PERFECT day for it. A couple of fascinating and funny chains about my disgust with 2 pressing issues. First, people who toss their Xmas trees to the curb on New Year's Day. Then, how newscasters constantly say "AN historic" instead of the proper "A historic." Pughy felt compelled to chime in and say i'm wrong...and has been arguing with me for hours since. I am RIGHT!!
But then things took a turn. I was friend requested by someone I worked with at CVS some 15 years ago now. Sigh. I have long wondered about a lot of those people...occasionally searching for some of them. I actually don't know a lot of their last names, or have forgotten them, as awful as that sounds. I'm hoping tonight's friend connection starts changing that. But then things REALLY took a turn. I found out SO randomly through this old CVS friend that a local cop who died in a car accident in September was 1) a high school classmate's brother, 2) was IN high school with me, 3) WORKED with me and 4) dated a good friend from work. It's crazy how 4 months went by without me knowing of my connection to him...being how much media coverage the story got. It's all I've thought about all night. There he is...in my yearbook. He was 2 years younger than me. Yet I didn't "know" him. I remember his face, though. And it just dawned on me a little while ago how I remember my work friend constantly mentioning his name during their courtship...this 15-year-old memory.
It's all so beyond crazy and random...every bit of the story. Far too complicated for me to properly get into now in the middle of the night. But it's terribly, terribly sad. And, I felt, a perversely appropriate cold glass of water to the face on the first day of the new year...a reminder, AGAIN, of how precious our time is here on earth. How there's no guarantee we'll see 2010. Or even tomorrow. And i'm NOT being negative or cynical when I say that. Not at all. It's just FACT. And I accept that as much as one can, and try to let it color the way I live my life. Try. I'm not perfect. But I try. Every minute breathing is a gift...and i've made it to 2009! Happy day! I wish myself and all those I love and care about a happy, healthy, mischievous, prosperous & well-balanced 2009! Time IS of the essence!
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