Always read your horoscope

I've finally moved into my apartment and settled down to some degree. I have a couch, bed, dining table and coffee table. Being able to lie down and read a book is a really big step for me as I've had many cracks in the road that I've tripped all over. I can't help but think I could have avoided some of the trouble if I had just opened up the newspaper and read my horoscope.

After I returned from my trip to NYC (which was awesome by the way; visiting friends always is) I discovered that my laptop was missing. Sure I had been talking about buying a new one for a long time; I had drooled all over the black MacBook I had seen at the Mac Store, but I wanted to buy it when my trusty tank of a HP was on its last legs. I had put together my desktop so laptop usage was at an all time low and I had put it in a pile of papers next to my bed. When I needed it a few weeks ago to retrieve some paper work for work, POOF! Gone. After blaming myself for it, and having my whole family make fun of me for "losing" it (I have a history of being absent minded), I think we all narrowed it down to the stolen category. Where's my finger point? The cleaning lady's daughter or someone that came to clean with her while I was gone.

Things didn't get much better after that. I had everything ready to purchase my new car; price was negotiated, hands were shook, and I had a pink slip in my hand. Stupidly I didn't think twice when they said they trusted me and didn't ask for a cash deposit. How surprised was I when the day the car was supposed to be delivered to the port, it wasn't there. I gave the dealer the benefit of the doubt, that's what I do, how could anyone stab a customer in the back like that. A week went by and I had three days left before I had to drive south to move in to my new apartment. The dealer's explanation? Disappeared. Either it was traded at port to someone else or it had been sold to another buyer offering more money. Either way, I got screwed.

There's been a whole string of other things, but I'm just glad I still have my health and my friends. The day I left for my new home I opened up the newspaper and there it was staring right at me, "Capricorn: You are in a gullible phase, stay near those who tell the truth". Thanks astrology, I wonder if it would have told me earlier in the week, "Don't do that, you're going to get fucked".