I hope that the easter bunny brings you lots of eggs and chocolates and good things! Unless, of course, you're of a religion or country that doesn't have easter. Instead, I just wish you a good weekend.
Sorry about it being 'so long' since my last update. I've been 'too busy' to actually write about things in here - especially things I've already written. I don't like sounding like a broken record or anything, so I'm not talking too much about how I feel about Deidre, and how things are going there. But just to reassure you, in case you need reassuring, things are going splendiferously. (Yes, I checked - splendiferious is actually a real world!)
"When was the last time you used the helicopter?" I asked Deidre at some ungodly hour this morning, while it was still dark.
"Huh?" she said, woken up.
"When was the last time you used the helicopter?" I repeated.
"You're sleep talking," she replied.
No I'm not, I'm thinking. It's a perfectly reasonable question considering how she just got out of the damn helicopter. I said very loudly, to make sure she understood me, "When was the last time you used the helicopter - oh my God, I AM sleep talking!" I exclaimed, as I realised that I was, indeed, sleep talking.
I had a conversation this morning with Deidre about spirituality and growth. I was talking about the ego being prominent in many things we do, where the driving force behind our actions is self-gratification. This is a standard thing with most human beings. However, in the process of this discussion, she got defensive and angry and a little upset. We discussed some more and found out that I had pressed a few buttons of hers, that my comments caused a reaction in her because they hit an 'exposed nerve'. I explained it wasn't an attack on her, but was just a discussion, but since she reacted that way, it was obvious that she related to what I was saying, but wasn't happy about it. Further discussion led us to understand that I have a way of pressing her buttons that no one has ever done before. I ask her to think about answers to my questions, instead of giving her my opinions. This is because I believe it's better to realise than to be told. Anyway, the conversation continued further, and I realised something myself.
I don't understand why so many people feel the need to blame someone for things that they don't NEED to blame others for! It's just bizarre.
I was reading yesterday about how a group of Americans wants to sue the Accor Hotel Group for not having early warning systems in place at their hotel/s in Thailand. Despite never having had a tsunami in over 300 years, these Americans are claiming that the hotel should have had an early warning system in place to help save lives. Despite there being only 75 minutes between the earthquake and the tsunami hitting the beaches, these Americans are claiming that the early warning system would have saved lives.
I'm back at work now after having had 2 days off due to sickness. I needed it, that's for sure. It was one of those head / sinus colds, that leaves you with a horribly leaking nose and eyes, occasional earaches due to sinus buildup and runoffs, and a very heavy head with a dull headache. On Monday night I was a mess, tossing and turning and plugging up my nose with tissues. I could hardly sleep. Poor Deidre. She told me yesterday that she figured if she can't handle this, then there was no point in staying. She said she could handle it. But next time… Next time I have to block up the nose with tissue plugs or she's going to sleep in the other room. Can't say I blame her. Waking up in the middle of the night and seeing me laying there with tissue hanging out my nose must be pretty traumatic.
Ok, I got the new laptop yesterday from work, and I've been playing with it / setting it up ever since. It's very cool… a nice wide screen, and very fast.
I've come down with a bad cold, so I took the afternoon off yesterday (and today as well), and I was trying to set up a network with the old laptop and this new one, until I discovered that you can't get a home network going when one of the laptops (or both) are configured for a business domain network. It just doesn't work… So I'm going to have to explore a few more options and see what I can do. I want my old laptop to access the internet via the new laptop, which will be the one connected to the internet. I'm sure I'll work it out eventually.
I'm in the same room as Ken, and have been for 2-3 weeks now. It's the network administration and telephony support room, and where this room was originally built for only one person, it now holds 3 of us. And to think that it used to hold 4 and they wanted me to come into it to make 5 of us in this room… Luckily common sense won the day, and after 2 of them were kicked out, I moved in with Steve and Ken.
Deidre talked to me last night about her moving in.
I've been open to this possibility for a little while now, but I've been sitting back and letting her come up with the idea. I wasn't going to raise the subject with her 'cause she has fears of commitment, so moving forward is up to her, at her own pace. She's got to get over her fears in her own time.
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