Can You Hear Me Now?

It is just one of those days.

Crazy day at work for me...I was stressed before I got there and even the little things that normally don't bother me irritated the mess out of me today. I just wanted to shut my door and be alone...not really possible where I work, and I wouldn't really want that either...but I seemed to start a hundred or three projects and never got anything really accomplished. Even the things I did accomplish were either wrong or needed "tweaking" even more. Bad day...bad, bad, day!

Home tonight is not much better, husband out for the night, child coughing her head off, many hours before bedtime and even more irritation at some "supposed" technological issues with my cell phone and even my laptop! Aye, yi, yi!!

I was searching for some inspiration for a post this evening, hoping for something light and airy, because I feel as if my last few posts have been a bit "serious," and began to look back in my archives at the posts I did this time last year. For light and airy post inspiration, last year at this time is not really the place to go looking, I knew that...I was just hoping against hope I was wrong.

Now, I remember this time last year vividly. I know where I was, what I was thinking, how my life was progressing. I was almost entirely deaf due to a massive mis-diagnosed ear infection. And I was struggling, people, S.T.R.U.G.G.L.I.N.G.! No doubt about it. You go back and read last January and it is a picture of pain mixed with joy, tinged with sorrow and profound sadness and an almost hysterical laughter. It was a bit of a crazy train... WRECK.

Reading the posts I was reminded that a year ago yesterday was a great day. It was the start of many great days, but two weeks later I did a post about technology and the frustration of cell phones and text messages and such. If you could have been here to hear me laughing a few moments ago, you would have had to cover your ears. The trouble with the cell phones and such I was having last year at this time, is EXACTLY the trouble I am having today. It is too funny. I was right last year...we need to go back to the old fashion way of communicating...the phone on the wall or a letter in the mailbox.

I have sent three text messages today. The first apparently didn't arrive at its destination. The second one went through just fine. The third one apparently was delivered, but not important enough to get a response. And believe it or not, I just tried to do it again. My husband is out for a night with some guys...I just sent a text asking for some Orange Juice to be brought home with him...so far, no response. I am betting we will be all be drinking water this morning.

It just cracks me up that there are so many differences between this blogger today than just 364 short days ago and yet still some things haven't changed at all. I can hear today, not sick at all, thank goodness! I am not struggling with life like I was back then, I know where I have been and where I am going, but heaven help me...I am still frustrated with conversations that start and end abruptly and the reliance we have on modern technology to be the connectors between us and the ones we love.

Have a happy evening, I am off to watch "The Office" , which I just found out is a re-run, sigh!


Living Happily in the Moment, (or at least trying to!!)
Bev