Fortunes

Hi All,
A co-worker gave me a little piece of candy for Valentine's Day back in February, and it had a little fortune in the wrapper. I'd never heard of a Valentine's fortune before, but hey, it was neat. Mine read, "A change is coming soon." Like most trivial things such as this, I like to read a lot into it. I'm the type that believes fortunes actually 'could' come true. Well? Sure they could!
"You are such a hopeless dreamer," they all say. Yes. Yes I am. I like to believe that things like Fate and Destiny are real. Or, I just like to think that someone outside of myself could predict something about my life, because I sure as heck can't. "But some woman in a factory in Georgia where this candy was made doesn't know squat about your future." Well, neither does the gypsy palm reader, but people believe them, don't they? I don't actually believe this fortune, not exactly. There's that innocent child-like part of me that says, "Well, anything's possible."
And then there's the realist that says, "If you believe in such things, they will all think you a Kook."
I think it would be cool if there WERE some great change coming for me. But I'm not sure what that could be. I did apply for another job recently; I thought this could be a sign I got the job. Or, things might change in this department. Or, I'm just reading way too much into a candy wrapper! I brought this up because I saved the fortune, and have it posted at my desk. We always do that here, well, some of us at least-save little fortunes from fortune cookies and put them all up in our cubes. So we look like we've got this great bit of wisdom and insight when really what we have are little quotes some guy thought up trying to be clever. I have my fortune cookie quote up too. I don't eat Chinese very much, and the fortunes I did have got thrown out when we moved to this office. But I saved the one that said, "You are gifted in many ways." Just in case I have a moment of low self-esteem.
I saw on Dateline last night where there are billions(!) of dollars sitting around as unclaimed property by the states. Bean and I went immediately to the sites to see if there's anything with our names on it, or members of our family. So far I did not see any. But there was one guy who had almost a million dollars unclaimed from a stock he took out in Lowe's before they were anything more than a local hardware store. So be sure to check out unclaimed.org once the site comes back up (it's having technical difficulties), or go to dateline nbc and there's links there to other sites where you can check to see if there's anything in your name or your family's name.
You never know! Your fortune could read, "Some kook is going to lead you to money today."
:)

Fortunes you really don't want to get
1) Good Lord! You baffle us.
2) I think your lucky star just plummeted to the Earth.
3) I think she knows you're cheating, you @#$@^#.
4) You will have lots of days off from work. LOTS. Like, permanently.
5) Sorry that God gave you the short end of the stick.

haha

Have a great day!