There it was...

There it was, staring back at me...almost mocking me...a stack of cheques with my old address on it. Just sitting on the bottom of my filing cabinet; looking quite pristine with the Oilers logo on it. I picked them up and looked at them, thinking back to when I ordered them, a time when I wasn't sure what I wanted in life. A time when I thought the address on the cheques was going to be forever. A time when I thought I was happy, a time when I decided that "stuff" was going to fill my life, but there just wasn't enough "stuff" to satisfy my palette. How silly to think that "stuff" could make you happy; yet here I am three years down the road and I tell ya I still have a lot of "stuff"; but not just any "stuff"...

My list of "stuff" contains the love and support of my family, my boyfriend, my boyfriend's family, our friends and our two dogs. These are the things that keep me going day in and day out. This is all the "stuff" I need.

The twinge of sadness that came over me was brief; because here I am in my new place with my new "stuff" and I love it.

So what did I do with those cheques you ask??? I did the same thing any woman would do...I took a black marker to the address and used the cheques. Because it doesn't matter where you live; it's how you decide to live it.