Getting remarkably close to invalidating my "This is not a blog" claim, if it were only a bit less ambiguous.
My, how so much can happen in just one short month...
I don't consider myself a particularly superstitious person, but I often find myself discovering patterns & strangely recurring coincidences whenever something stupid or negative happens to me in life. I now keep a sort of mental checklist in my head.
Warning bells tend to start ringing in my head whenever an item on The List is introduced into a situation I'm involved in. With good reason too...; time and time again, I've conclusively found that if a List item is brought into (or even mentioned in) my personal proximity, shitty things are going to start happening, I can pretty much guarantee it...
Examples of items already on The List include fruit salad, Gary Busey, the name "Derek", and oversized animals in RPGs. After careful consideration of what some may consider as several purely coincidental series of events, the latest item to be added to the avoid this at all costs list is Teddy Bears. Simple, innocent, stuffed teddy bears. Yep.
At the rate things are going, the next List item might just be Honesty, that'd really screw me up big-time...