{"id":1863,"date":"2004-03-18T09:10:36","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T09:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2004-03-18T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T09:10:36","slug":"thank_you_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/thank_you_1\/","title":{"rendered":"thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/images\/digicam\/van_vs_ott.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"van_vs_ott.jpg\" title=\"canucks vs. sentators. my two favourite teams!\" \/><\/div>\n<p>i just might be getting this whole programming thing. then again, it&#8217;s probably just that i was so horribly scarred by linked lists in pascal that it was burned very deeply into my brain.  regardless, i was the first one finished the lab last night and i did it both the easy and the hard way.  go me.<br \/>\nmeghan has gotten me addicted to watching <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startingovertv.com\">starting over<\/a><\/i>, a daytime reality tv show which has women living together in a house while trying to rebuild their lives through life coaching and personal empowerment exercises.   it&#8217;s like any other stupid reality tv show, but with a more noble intent.  honestly, it&#8217;s gotten me thinking a lot more about how i live and react to things. there are a couple of women in the house who are struggling with many of the same issues i am in their lives.  the only difference being, i haven&#8217;t reached out for help to resolve them.<br \/>\nthis leads to my talking about the best thing which has happened in my life in a long time:  jeremy.   while watching the show and reading an exerpt of a book one of the life coaches on the show had written, i realized that jeremy is like my own personal life coach.   he&#8217;s the most supportive, caring, generous person i have ever known.  he calls me on my bullshit and will not tolerate my patented self-deprication.  he cheers me on when i succeed and supports me when i&#8217;m struggling.  he inspires me to be a better, more open and communicative person.  when i think about him i just get this overwhelming feeling of appreciation and gratitude that he&#8217;s part of my life.<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve known jeremy for somewhere near the vicinity of eight years now, but we&#8217;ve never met.  i don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve even talked on the phone more than half a dozen times, but we talk almost every day.  i&#8217;m generally not fond of the human race as a whole, so finding someone with whom i actually want to talk to every day is la little bit like a miracle.<br \/>\nback when we were both younger and stupider and we&#8217;d only known each other a short while, we had a big fight and stopped talking to each other for several years.  i don&#8217;t even remember what the fight was about or even how we reconnected.    it feels like i&#8217;ve known him forever though.  i can&#8217;t seem to imagine not having him as part of my life.<br \/>\nthe thing about my relationship with jeremy is that, in the past, because of the strength of my respect, regard and affection for him, i&#8217;d start to convince myself that i was falling in love with him.  that if i felt this much for someone who very obviously felt just as much for me, that it must mean that we should be together romantically, ignoring completely the fact that he&#8217;s very happily married and he&#8217;d never even consider jeopardizing that relationship.   what i&#8217;m realizing is that i can love the stuffing out of him without it being heartbreaking-longing-yearning-romance-novel love.   that i don&#8217;t have to dampen the strength of my feelings for him just because he&#8217;ll never be my boyfriend.<br \/>\nit&#8217;s just another thing he&#8217;s helped me learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i just might be getting this whole programming thing. then again, it&#8217;s probably just that i was so horribly scarred by linked lists in pascal that it was burned very deeply into my brain. regardless, i was the first one finished the lab last night and i did it both the easy and the hard <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/thank_you_1\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More 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