Lessons Learned

My determination gets the best of me at times. Looking back over the past few years, I see how stubborn I was with myself, and how much that threw me into denial. I'd been in denial for a long time. Hayley said I had been since before she met me. Her and I approach our second year anniversary of being friends (Yes there totally is such at thing! And we shall celebrate it diligently!), but I was stuck in that same loop for much much longer. Now, of course, I'm out of it (or I think I am at least), and every day I feel the benefits.

Last night our home wireless router imploded, and the wireless on it stopped working. Only one of the computers in the entire house is wired to the Internet, and with three other people relying on the wireless connection to be up, the job of installing a new one came to me, as the most technologically knowledgeable in the house. I was surprised actually, that my dad yielded the responsibility to me, even though I admittedly didn't really know what to do at first.

Lucky for me, relationships with geeks have their uses, and I'd watched Alex set the other router up (and probably took in more than he thought I was capable of). Once I figured out how to get into the router settings it was just a question of copying the basics over. I even set up the WPA2 security. I have to say, I felt great afterwards, a sense of achievement! My determination didn't let me down last night, and I am grateful for that.

It has been a while now since the break up. Surprisingly I think of him less often than I imagined I would, but I guess I have help with new, enticing, distractions of an extremely good kind. I learned a lot of lessons though, from that relationship, and I hope he did too.

As my final word, I shall say this: Eight!