And so it is…

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky
    ~Damien Rice

You know what I realized in all my time off from OD?  I missed you guys.  I think that’s a little weird.  I’ve never met any of you.  But I’ve gotten used to reading about your lives and I missed it.  Maybe I just needed some time away and now I’ll be back like before.

I looked over at the clock a few minutes ago and the time was 11:11.  That still happens to me all the time.  I don’t know why I find it weird.  I looked it up on the Internet and apparently that phenomenon exists….apparently it happens to a lot of people.  They say that  there are 1,111 angels in heaven and they are trying to get people’s attention.  Don’t think I believe in stuff like that, but I do still find it strange that my eye always seems to fall on the digital clocks when it’s 11:11 or 1:11 whether it be AM or PM.  And it’s not like it has always happened to me.  I’ve only started noticing it in the past 2 years.  The 2 years of my life that were really hard.  So even though I don’t believe it, it’s nice to think that it may be a way someone out there is comforting me in my time of need.  I wish I could be the type of person who blindly believes that kind of thing.  I think those people that do are better off.  They always have something to comfort them.

Over the weekend, we sat around and discussed religion a lot.  I’m glad my parents aren’t very religious.  I think I’d go crazy if I had to follow all the stupid supersticious crap a lot of Hindus believe.  I wonder how much of what I believe actually comes from my parents and how much of it is stuff I came to on my own conclusion.  I guess I wonder that when it comes to everything, not just religion.  Over the weekend, I was also quite amazed at how much my parents have changed.  I wish they had been this cool when I was in high school.

I bought an iPod…a 30GB one!  I got a decent bonus from work this year and was going to buy just the regular 4GB nano that most people I know seem to have, but realized that the 30GB was only $37 more on amazon…where there are no taxes or shipping fees!  It was shipped today and hopefully I will have it by next week.  I’m super excited!  Bro promised to help me buy another hard drive for my computer so I could download all my CDs to iTunes and have them on the iPod.  I truly think that mp3 players are the greatest invention of the last few years!  I have one now that’s only 1GB and it seems to hold less and less music each time I upload to it but I’ve been listening to it in the car by hooking it up to the FM radio transmitter and I get excited because I LOVE every song that comes on….because they are songs I love that I put on there.  It’s so much better than the radio or even CDs.

I’m looking foward to New Years with Ang.  I think we’ll actually get to hang out with some new people that she met, including some Bengali people she knows.  I tried to ask Kevin what he was up to this weekend but he didnt’ answer.  I don’t know if he was ignoring me or if he went off to do something else and didn’t see my IM.  I think it would be weird to go there and not see or hang out with him.  Oh, I think today is his 30th b-day!  I need to talk to him.  You know, being 30 is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.  Seriously.  It’s just another number.