| Wednesday January 8th 2003 Sometimes it takes something awful to happen to someone you know before you realize just how lucky you are. After all my trips on the highway to see LA, I haven't any bad instances to report. My friend GB took the same highway to the same location just before New Year's, and hit a patch of ice that landed him in the snowbank. Fortunately there was no damage to himself or his car and he was able to get back on the road with a bit of help. He wasn't quite so fortunate when he tried the same trip this past weekend, striking a deer head on. Again he took no damage personally, but his car certainly did. He'll be taking the bus to work for the next little while - if not a good long while. I was driving him home night before last after he dropped by for a visit, and there was an opportunity to pass a salt truck along the way while we were on a two-lane road. Call me superstitious, but with him sitting next to me I decided not to risk it. For the record, I am totally aware it is my sister's birthday this Saturday (Happy Birthday!). Alien forces possess my brain, however, whenever there is occasion to purchase and send a birthday card to back up my claim - thus, even if should successfully resist said forces and send one today, it is now going to arrive late. And if it doesn't, then I've just made a humbling confession for no reason. Ah well, it does me good. There's an excellent chance LA and I will be living together by summer's end. I'm increasingly anxious for that moment, and for her constant company. Last week, between me visiting her and then her visiting me, we spent the entire seven days together except for when one or the other was working. And now it doesn't feel normal or satisfying not to have her around. I feel like I'm just killing time until I see her again. I'm anxious to finish the whole divorce issue, too. As of Monday I finished my one-year separation time, and if the papers were in hand my ex and I could have submitted them this week. Instead we're several steps away, since I still haven't been able to pry my pension information out of the pay and benefits office at work. They've acquired a notrious reputation for being slow, but even so I would have thought that looking up a single number for me on their computer wouldn't take them a whole month and counting. Thanks for putting my new life on hold, people! :( |