This week's life lessons

1. Monday: professors can secretly read minds and know to cancel class because you forgot to do an assignment, but would remember Thursday night, and because you have more important stuff to do like activate your new iPhone 5.
2. Tuesday: Your car may need a lot of work done to it, but you made your grandmother happy by going to dinner with her.
3. Wednesday: This traffic absolutely sucks, but the newly paved part is like driving on heaven, and you've gotten the opportunity to drive through the countryside (despite the extra time) allowing you to taking in the beautiful view of the changing colors on the trees.
4. Thursday: Your car STILL needs a lot of work done, but you finally had the opportunity to talk with a resident of Transitional Housing for over an hour and are building good rapport with her.
5. Friday: It was an extremely busy day fitting in school, internship, and work all in 12 hours, constantly on the go, but you had a test pushed back one class, learned you need to ask for a DSM V for Christmas, learned not to make bets because they'll find a loophole and end up tricking you when you were tricking them, and you are to be owed a chocolate milkshake... eventually.
6. Most important note to remember, when all else fails, wine.
In all seriousness, I am a huge believer in karma and there being a reason to everything. It may just be a silly superstition I have (speaking of superstitions, I'm watching Hocus Pocus as I write!) because I always have moments where I stop and think, "oh, if that didn't have the outcome it did, this wouldn't have happened." For example, my senior year of high school, I thought I was having really bad luck with car accidents. I swear I am not a bad driver. I'm actually super cautious, definitely more cautious than my friends, and I was always the one with car troubles. I hit two deer, got hit in a parking lot, and lost control on a gravel road all within like a year. I wasn't under the influence and I wasn't distracted on my phone, I swore I was cursed. I was getting to the point where I was terrified to drive. Now, when I see other people being reckless drivers, I take it as a reminder to myself of that terrible time in my life and I always think how lucky I am that it was nothing worse than it that (everything turned out fine in the end. It actually worked in my favor, in a weird way my insurance paid off my car). Anyways, with all that said, I still reflect during those "ah-ha karma" moments and take it as a lesson.