An Unbelievably Good Idea

Sometimes it's important to just forget about what's bothering you, and just go with the flow of the world around you, doing what needs to get done.

Lots of things bug me. I'm just now slowly learning that I have to breeze past many of those things in order to hold a job without feeling as though I'm falling into a huge pit of despair.

For instance: Horrible managers that don't know the difference between appropriate comments between friends and appropriate comments between coworkers. Unfortunately, in the kinds of jobs I can find with my level of education, this is a fact of life, and I just have to let it roll off my back while it happens, and stop bitching about it.

See, I have an impossible time of holding jobs. The last job I held for over a year was when I owned my own business (a video rental store). In the past five years I have held (thinking) over eleven jobs, easily. I'm only counting the jobs that I held for over a week. Some of them were temporary jobs, so it's not like I ~totally~ suck. I wasn't fired/didn't quit from all of them.

Eventually I want to go back to owning my own store again. It's an amazing feeling, and one I want to have back. Now I just have to work that into being famous, and everything will be almost perfect!

Friday Five (Because It's Interesting)

Things that go THUMP in the night.

1. Have you ever tried meditation?
~I used to meditate every night, but have fallen out of practice. Now I only do it when I ~really~ need to.

2. Do you pray?
~On very rare occassions.

3. Worst nightmare:
~I wake up from a nightmare, not realizing that I'm still actually sleeping, to find that my girlfriend is laying next to me, dead. Then I wake up again...

4. Do trolls live under your bed?
~Nope. They're in the closet.

5. Make a wish:
~I wish I could turn invisible at will.

They Say It's Your Birthday

Maria asked me recently for a list of what I want for my birthday, and to be honest I'm having a difficult time coming up with something that I know she'll be interested in getting for me.

Yeah, that sounds weird, but I know for a fact that she won't want to get me rings from The Ring Lord, and she's often told me that books, while not out of the question, are going to be rare presents to me. I actually have a list of books that I want for my birthday too, most of them by Raymond E. Feist. I have a bunch of his books, but am looking to complete my collection. Unfortunately I don't see that as happening.

I know that Maria wouldn't believe me if I put "clothes" on my birthday list, because I'm very unpractical, and while it wouldn't be a lie (saying "clothes" on my wish-list), there are many things I'd be happier getting.

So, I'm going to make my wish-list of presents here, first. Then I can think it over before writing it on paper and handing the finished product to her. I know that she'll read this anyways, and know what I'm looking for before-hand, but that's okay too. This way she'll know what I'm dropping out of my list.

Of course, thinking about this right now I'm realizing that we're tight on money, and maybe I should just be happy to live here right now, with a wonderful woman that loves me.

And I do.

But I feel like being greedy too, so here's my list:

1. Raymond E. Feist books: Talon of the Silver Hawk (Conclave of Shadows: book one), King of Foxes (Conclave of Shadows: book two), Exile's Return (Conclave of Shadows: Book three) Krondor: Tear of Gods (book three of the Riftwar Legacy), Krondor: The Assassins (book two of the Riftwar Legacy), Krondor: The Betrayal (book one of the Riftwar Legacy), Shards of a Broken Crown (Volume IV of the Serpentwar Saga) (There are a few of his other books that I've read but don't have, and so want them...but these are the ones I don't have that would complete my reading experience.)

2. Swords

3. Clothes. It is true, just not ideal.

4. Rings from The Ring Lord, so that I can see if it's true that it's so hard to make some chain-mail armor. I think it'd be fun.

5. Maid Service. No, seriously. I'm horrible at cleaning, and I'd love to just have a day where some people come over, clean the house, and leave. It'd be awesome!

6. D&D 3.0 books. Lots of them.

7. There are some RPGs for PS2 out there that I want, but can't think to name them.

This list of 7 took way too long to think up. I have to go now, and work out. Yay work outs!