| My underdevelopped brain
I often find my self asking God why I'm so cursed. I do this several times a week, usually over a Murphy's Law type situation. The usual example: I know I have to be somewhere for a certain time. It'll be an important event that I'll usually need to buy some new article of clothing for or find a gift, or both. And always, I'll have at least one week's notice of this upcoming event.
I usually make a rough plan of when I'll get the gift, the outfit or whatever and then promptly forget said plan. I always plan to book the day off from work and then don't.
Then it'll be usually no more than 5 hours before the event and I'll realize that I have to/want to/should bake something for the event, or that I promised to bring something. I'll quickly start baking/looking for the item I promised to bring/run to the store and have all sorts of difficulties such as not having a crucial ingredient (thankfully, this rarely happens)/not finding the item I must bring/ or the more common store situation: I'll be stuck behind an elderly lady who has many questions about her potential purchase. She really hasn't made up her mind and thinks talking it through while I wait, inwardly tapping my foot, outwardly rolling my eyes (I'm a bitch when I'm running late) and looking at my watch is the best solution to her dilemma.
Finally, it'll be my turn and the other cashier will have a problem with her cash register that only my cashier can fix, or a good friend of my cashier will walk in with juicy gossip to share with my cashier and I'll move to outwardly tapping my foot, while I hear that Mindy finally got to suck face with that hot guy who's got the weird coloured eyes. Finally, she'll ring me through and I'll bark "thank you" (I'm ever the polite young woman...HAH!) and leave the store, only to watch my bus zoom away (yup, without me). Argh!! Reliving this is truly agonizing. So anyway, I'm not truly cursed (I can't have any more friends avoiding me!). I've just been blessed with an inability to learn from my past mistakes. I get a severe form of amnesia and fall into the same patterns over and over and over again. Maybe it's not really my fault and that part of my brain is just grossly underdeveloped. We need people doing research in these kinds of fields! On a totally unrelated note (*ahem*), I had a fabulous Sunday. I went to my friend Jovana's birthday dinner for family (awww, she considers me family!). Her family is so wonderful, not a trace of dysfunction (that I have seen, anyway) runs in that family, which can be mildy frustrating, but in a good way. They are all so polite, so sociable, so prepared for every situation. I often feel awkward and clumsy around them. There was another family there who had the cutest baby with them...all chubby cheeked and plump. I had a much needed nice, relaxing time. PS: I decided to cross another item off my "to do" list because it makes me feel better and because I joined the Canada's Savings Bond thing through my Cotton Ginny job. They'll take part of my paycheque and buy bonds or something with it. That's pretty much like a savings account, better even, because I feel like I can't touch that money.
Posted on 2003-10-06 at 1:02 a.m. |
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