Day 71: In Balance

So, with all this Nickelback, and all the whining and complaining I do, you'll be happy to know, I'm having a GREAT week so far. Well, maybe you really won't care. But I do. My life is finally in balance again. It only took 71 days to get there.

I walked around work singing "Time and Confusion" by Anberlin, which was great, because the guitar solo popped into my head. It's great to know that this music is still embedded in my brain, when I haven't even heard a snippet of it in over two months.

Why is my week so good? First off, I only work 3 days this week, when usually I work 5. At first, I was kind of disappointed. But I finally learned to enjoy my days off work. And here's why.

My sister and I used to play this computer game, Titanic: Adventure Out of Time. And I kid you not, it was the BEST game ever created. But it only works on Windows 95. Or so it SAYS. We got it when I was probably 8 and she was 11, and we tried installing it on all of our computers since we got rid of our Windows 95. It never worked. It always said "Bad Star File," or didn't do anything at all.

I got to talking to a guy I know from high school one day, and he had the same game. So he tried it on his NMU lap top, and IT WORKED! Stoked beyond belief, I tried it on mine. Nothing happened. But today, TODAY, we tried it on my sister's desktop she has had since she graduated high school 6 years ago. Why had we never tried it before? Who knows? Maybe we did, but it just wasn't the right time yet.

BECAUSE TODAY IT WORKED! And we played it, and at first we couldn't see anything except a black screen, and we had to uncover the graphics by clicking, and it was like some kind of crazy puzzle. And then, we got it all uncovered, and it was like a quarter screen image. But then, when the atom bomb crashed through the window and we had to insert disk 2, it worked, and it wasn't half screen, but full screen! And it was WONDERFUL!

If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please, PLEASE let me know. I have to share this excitement with somebody else.

So, yeah, the week's great. And now I say to Chad Kroeger, "Thank you!" Because he let me realize that even though I can't always have what I want, and maybe I can't listen to the music I want, and maybe I can't work all the days I want to work, I can still have a fabulous time. Aww.