Wasn't Dionne Warwick Related to Whitney Houston or Something?

I'm having one of those days where all the little errors or not-quite-diligent-editing moments are coming back to haunt me all at once. Annoying. I generally try to be on the ball at work, but apparently today is just not my day. (As yes, some of these errors are from today...really, I should just go home now).

It's weird how the stars align sometimes. I tend to get annoyed when people get all astrological on me, but I occasionally think there might be something to it.

Why am I making errors today? Why are errors that I made months ago just coming up today? Why would I lose two followers on my blog today? One I can understand (well not really, I mean why would anyone voluntarily give up reading the fabulousness that is me?), but suddenly two on the same day? Weird.

Back to the astrology thing for a moment - as I said, I don't buy into that crap. But I do think there is "something" going on in the universe that can't always be scientifically explained away. I do believe in the concept of "meant to be."

Not 100% of course. I also believe in free will and all that jazz. But sometimes...I don't know, sometimes it seems like things align for a specific reason. In my life, this seems apparent when I consider the topic of jobs.

I firmly believe that someone wanted me to work at my last job. I had a zillion and one interviews, and was only offered a summer position at my last place for two months after the interview (not the job I interviewed for, the consolation prize). I was convinced that in two months I would have a permanent job, but left the door open.

And sure enough, two months later I was still jobless. And by the end of that summer they offered me a permanent position in the other company housed in that building.

Now as you all know, I was quite unhappy with that job a long time. I kept wanting to quit, but it seemed like circumstances kept preventing me from doing so. This went on for a couple of years. And sure enough, in my last 6 months there, I ended up with full responsibility for some projects I had only assisted on before.

Had I left two years earlier I would have: a) not been given managerial tasks on those projects, and b) would have thought that I was simply bad at my job, and that was why I had to leave, instead of realizing that it was a personality conflict that made me so unhappy. All this has resulted in a much better paying job, confidence that I wouldn't have had otherwise, and a lot more peace of mind.

But astrology? Psychics? Entertainment. Period. I enjoy me a good psychic visit every once in a while, but I have never found one that's told me anything shocking, or accurate. I won't call them frauds, I'm certain they do have "feelings" or sense things, but it's just never really worked for me.

But on days like today, I can't help but think there's something going on out there. It just seems too coincidental that a bunch of these things seem to be happening at once.

What do you think? Or more to the point, what do you believe?