Ok, you're walking through the grocery store. Minding your own business and then suddenly, you think you hear your name. You pop your head up and look around like a nervous squirrel. Not recognizing anyone in the vicinity, you keep shopping. Then it happens a second time. Again, you look around and don't see anyone that you know. You keep shopping thinking that you must be more tired/stressed than you thought, because now you're hallucinating. Then when it happens a third time and someone taps you on the shoulder from behind. You twirl around to find a smiling face staring at you. You have no idea who this person is as they proceed to start with the "Didn't you hear me calling your name?"

Not wanting to admit that you have no idea who they are, you apologize and mumble something about ear infections stuffing up your ears so you didn't hear them. (Way to think on your feet!) You allow them to ramble on, offering only non committal responses while racking your brain trying to figure out who they are. 5 or so minutes later you come up with some excuse and tell the person that you're glad to have run into them and hope to see them again soon but you really have to go. Then a day or so later, you get a call from a friend of a friend's friend saying that so and so ran into you at the grocery store and was so glad to see you again. Ohhh, you think... So that's who that was.

That happened to me the other day. It had been a particularly hard day at work, I wasn't feeling all that great, and I had to pick up a few essentials at the store before I went home. I've got my cart loaded up yogurt, a few other little items, and was in the process of picking out some toilet paper (I splurged and got the good stuff) when a lady approached me. She went on and on for a good 10 minutes about her kids, her husband, and about sports. "You'll have to come over and watch a game or two with us" she says. "The boys are starting practice tonight, you're gonna come to their games right?" And "How's work been going for you?" Luckily, she was the one that had to rush off. So I was spared. Then the next day my boss comes in the office after a meeting and tells me that "Sherry" told her that she ran into me at the store the day before. Apparently, the stranger in the store was the PR lady for the hospital and her son is a co op that sometimes works in our department.

Life is fun sometimes isn't it. As the movie says "life is like a box of chocolates..." Only my box seems to be filled with nut clusters lately!

I'm so so so glad that its almost the weekend. It's supposed to be rainy and cold, but at least it will be the weekend. You can tell that the full moon is this week. one more day and we're free everyone. Here's to a better day for all of us tomorrow.