Heat Returnith
As of 5:53 PM EST heat was restored to my apartment. Andrew and I went to pick up the part from Bell Appliances a little after four in the afternoon. I had to take an hour off work, but luckily I will just be able to flextime and work over half of two lunches to make up for it. It was well worth the sacrifice. We got to my house and once we had the proper tools, Andrew easily got the part in and the furnace started up with no issues.
It was an exciting moment as the furnace came back to life. The next two hours continued the excitement of watching the temperature in the apartment rise, and my being able to shed the third layer of clothing I had been wearing. The funny thing is that once it got back to sixty-eight degrees, I found it pretty damn hot in the apartment. I guess my body had gotten used, or I should say more used to the colder temperatures for some extent. So the saga of the furnace comes to a close.
It is one day closer to Saturday and yeah I have been getting steadily more excited for my birthday. As I was thinking about that, it is still weird for me to get excited. As many people know, for a long time my birthday became mostly a bad memory when my Great Aunt Opal passed away five hours before one. She had been the person that really raised my in the very early formative years and I was exceptionally close. I was close enough that in her last hours I was the only person she knew was in the room and I held her hand as she passed away. Everyone right after that kept telling me to have fun on my birthday because she would have wanted that, but yeah, that doesn't work. It took awhile to get over that and while I still do miss her sometimes, I don't feel like that is a stigma on my birthday anymore. Even more is that it is not a symbol of my birthday, but it is a celebration of the last year and in a lot of ways I am celebrating the people that come out or that remembered me this time around:) I have no doubt that this one will be a good one. I am looking forward to Saturday....although there will be no talking of age. I don’t like feeling that I have not hit my potiential yet:)
Last night I had a series of strange dreams. Part of the dream was that I was being chased by Jason from Friday the 13th movies. That part was not so scary but more funny, because while I could not seem to get away from him, I kept foiling him in very strange ways. The main part of the dream was that I was at work and I was getting extremely bored at work and talking to some coworkers. It sort of just went on and on and as the dream progressed I had started applying to other positions. Basically it is reminding me how bored I have grown with my position. Do not get me wrong, I like my job, well it is not a bad job I should say, but it just does not have any challenge for me. I know that I am not coming close to my abilities in my position, but I just don't know if there is much more I can go. I like to think there is, but who knows. I just prefer to be chellanged in life. Alas, though tht is just something to ponder.