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Ways in which I've been really lucky....
In what ways haven't I? I tend, overall, to be very lucky. There's my parents, who taught me a lot - always loved me - always accepted me, even though I can be decidedly odd at times. Heck, they even seem to understand me (and I'm not sure I understand me, some days ;).
I've got Scott, who has a degree of patience with my foibles that I'm not sure I'm even capable of understanding; who likes most of the household chores I don't, and dislikes most of the ones I do; who understands when I want to spend hours on the computer and knows that I still come back to him, not to the silicon chip in the corner.
I've got all the wonderful people I've the honor of calling friends - many of whom, but certainly not all, are probably reading this post. I have my extended family which, while some of them have annoyed me, are still family - and still were good to me when I was growing up; we're just very different people.
I've had cats. Anyone who's had a cat is lucky! (And brushing hair off their clothes, and sneezing - but it's still worth it.) Sweety, in particular - a cat as unusual as I am, and a good friend, as much as a cat can be.
There's my education, which I generally did well at, and which has served me well; there's my current job. They wanted someone with three years of experience in C under Windows and hired me straight out of college with NO experience and classes in C++ under Unix.... All because they thought I had the right attitude about learning things. I thought this job would be a temporary thing 'til I paid off my bills; I thought I wouldn't like it. Much as I bitch about the hours, I really like the industry, the product, my immediate coworkers/teammates (most days), most of my other coworkers most of the time, and the clients. That's not a bad thing to be able to say at all.
The apartment we used to live in. We got a really good deal on a nice place, and it just dropped into our laps about the same time my job did. We'd been hunting - and I checked this place out to see how it was (the ad was REALLY brief and I wasn't expecting much) and oh my goodness was it perfect (except for the no-pets policy, but there had to be some flaw). They were really good to us.
The house we live in now. Yes, there was a lot of time finding it - but it was our second choice and I'm truly glad, now, that our first choice was grabbed by someone else. Maybe we would have loved it too - but I'm not so sure. My ambitious plans for finishing that unfinished basement look ludicrous in light of the amount of time I don't dedicate to yardwork or other stuff around here! LOL. This is a really great place, and very close to where Scott works as well.
I could go on and on. Things I have, specific friends, skills I've had the chance to learn. Or I could just say - I've been lucky a lot. I'm here, and now, typing this, with the weekend and the week and the month and the year behind me that are behind me, and who knows what to come.
And it's been far more good than bad. If that's luck, then it counts; and if it's not, then I'm simply grateful for it.
In what ways haven't I? I tend, overall, to be very lucky. There's my parents, who taught me a lot - always loved me - always accepted me, even though I can be decidedly odd at times. Heck, they even seem to understand me (and I'm not sure I understand me, some days ;).
I've got Scott, who has a degree of patience with my foibles that I'm not sure I'm even capable of understanding; who likes most of the household chores I don't, and dislikes most of the ones I do; who understands when I want to spend hours on the computer and knows that I still come back to him, not to the silicon chip in the corner.
I've got all the wonderful people I've the honor of calling friends - many of whom, but certainly not all, are probably reading this post. I have my extended family which, while some of them have annoyed me, are still family - and still were good to me when I was growing up; we're just very different people.
I've had cats. Anyone who's had a cat is lucky! (And brushing hair off their clothes, and sneezing - but it's still worth it.) Sweety, in particular - a cat as unusual as I am, and a good friend, as much as a cat can be.
There's my education, which I generally did well at, and which has served me well; there's my current job. They wanted someone with three years of experience in C under Windows and hired me straight out of college with NO experience and classes in C++ under Unix.... All because they thought I had the right attitude about learning things. I thought this job would be a temporary thing 'til I paid off my bills; I thought I wouldn't like it. Much as I bitch about the hours, I really like the industry, the product, my immediate coworkers/teammates (most days), most of my other coworkers most of the time, and the clients. That's not a bad thing to be able to say at all.
The apartment we used to live in. We got a really good deal on a nice place, and it just dropped into our laps about the same time my job did. We'd been hunting - and I checked this place out to see how it was (the ad was REALLY brief and I wasn't expecting much) and oh my goodness was it perfect (except for the no-pets policy, but there had to be some flaw). They were really good to us.
The house we live in now. Yes, there was a lot of time finding it - but it was our second choice and I'm truly glad, now, that our first choice was grabbed by someone else. Maybe we would have loved it too - but I'm not so sure. My ambitious plans for finishing that unfinished basement look ludicrous in light of the amount of time I don't dedicate to yardwork or other stuff around here! LOL. This is a really great place, and very close to where Scott works as well.
I could go on and on. Things I have, specific friends, skills I've had the chance to learn. Or I could just say - I've been lucky a lot. I'm here, and now, typing this, with the weekend and the week and the month and the year behind me that are behind me, and who knows what to come.
And it's been far more good than bad. If that's luck, then it counts; and if it's not, then I'm simply grateful for it.
