The worst thing and the one that has hurt me the worst is on Friday the 18th of this month someone broke into my house. Cisco called me at work to tell me. It was sometime between 7:40am and 2:40pm. I'm not sure how they got in but I have a pretty good idea. Either an extreme coincidence or what I heard and saw was real. That thursday night/Friday morning at around 2:30am Beau woke me up whining and trying to get me up out of bed. He jumped on my bed and turned around immediately and stared at the bedroom door. I picked my head up and looked and could've sworn that I saw someone backing up, maybe I saw their arm or elbow or something like that. But I was half asleep and of course at that point I still hadn't been robbed so I didn't think too much of it. Beau wouldn't quit whining so I got up and gave the house a look over and turned on lights to see if I could see anything. I didn't so I went back to bed. Now I remember that about 2 months ago the neighbor across the street said she caught someone in her attic but they took off once they knew they'd been seen. How creepy is it that, that person who went through my things could have been hiding out in the attic all night just waiting for me and Cisco to leave? They took my flat screen TV, Cicso's laptop, Cisco's digital camera and some head phones. But like my Dad said "that's just stuff" and the only irreplaceable thing in the house, Beau, was not hurt, because he was outside, I don't think they would have dared come in if he was inside that day.
At work I was doing great all quarter then came the last three weeks. I was very close to getting my personal bonus which comes with a pay raise as well as money immediately in my pocket. Then Friday was here (the last day of the quarter) and I had made absolutely no progress on it. FUCK. Really?
Indoor soccer team hasn't won a game.
I still can't figure out girls.
Softball team started off with another quality loss.
The Cowboys lost the home opener.
And that's on top of the other stuff that I have to normally deal with. I don't get stressed out, and I try to stay even keel about most things in my life, but this has been an extra ordinarily hard week, month, and quarter.
So if all that negative stuff happened how can I learn from it, correct it, or prevent it from happening again? I mean after all, that's what life is about right? Well as far as my house goes a lot of what I'm doing may be considered 'hindsight is 20/20', but I'm getting a security system, motion lights, I'm now currently in the market for a shotgun or gun of some kind that can be used in home defense, and fixing some other items that will make the home more secure. When it comes to work I just need to stay positive and work my butt off. I know I'm better than what I did last quarter, but just like Bill Parcells said when he was the coach of the Cowboys "you're only as good as your record says". So let me change that record and make sure everyone knows how good I am.
Then I look at all I have in my life and sure I feel more vulnerable now and have a little less faith in humanity, but I still have the people in my life that care for me, me and Cisco weren't hurt when the house got broken into, and my amazing dog Beau is better than ever.
Tomorrow is the beginning of a new week, a new month, and a new quarter. So VH1 may not have done their "Best week ever" show on my life lately but I'm going to do everything in my power to change that.
Live life everyday and love as much as possible.
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"The True Gentleman... whose self control is equal to all emergencies"-John Walter Wayland
