You love a daily crossword puzzle! You could do them all the time. But you’re beginning to believe the person writing in your newspaper is trying to send you an encoded message. 

You love a daily crossword puzzle! You could do them all the time. But you’re beginning to believe the person writing in your newspaper is trying to send you an encoded message.

I think I’m coming down with a cold.

Not exactly a cold, as I have no fever.

But I’ve been sneezing all day.

Is it because of the nice weather?

I just finished planting a new rosebush.

Yes, a rosebush.

My dad wants to get me a rosebush as a gift for my birthday, so I thought I’d make sure it was a good one.

So I bought one and planted it in a special place (next to the place I buried my cat last year).

I love this particular place in my yard.

I’ll have to take a picture of it tomorrow so you can see what I mean.

I know this sounds weird, but it’s such a peaceful place to me.

Just about everything about it reminds me of my cat who passed away last year.

Maybe that’s why I love it so much.

I’m not exactly a plant person.

I don’t really have the patience for it.

So I’m not exactly looking forward to the watering part of it.

I’m sure it will get watered, but I don’t want to do the actual watering part.

I don’t even know how to do that.

So it may not work out.

But at least I’m making a start on my birthday gift.

And that ‘s something.

You’re beginning to believe the person writing the daily crossword puzzle in your newspaper is trying to send you an encoded message.

Your friends would like to ask you why you don’t share all of your life stories with them, but they don’t realize it’s because you’re afraid they’ll go off and lose all respect for you.

You’re certain that all the things your neighbors do are weird, and you don’t understand how they can stand it.

You go on the Internet in your sleep.

You tend to agree with the following pieces of advice:

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“I just found a contact from the future who says I need to see a counselor.

I think he’s right.”

I am so overwhelmed by my present – day actions and choices that I find myself having to re – evaluate my entire life.

I know that I am making the right decisions.

My current state is certainly not a mistake.

However, I know that I could have gone in a better direction.

Maybe if I had taken that trip to Paris that I wanted to take when I was twenty, maybe if I had taken up golf instead of playing tennis, maybe if I had stayed in the country and pursued a career in law instead of living in New York City, maybe if I had stayed in the country and married someone I met on my travels.

And now, I have to live with the consequences.

There are so many things I want to do, and I know I can’t do everything.

I have to pick.

I need to pick.

I can’t just float around, unsure of what to do.

I need to focus.

On my way to the boardroom, I stop by to see my lawyer, Arthur.

He has a group of the other partners in the firm in his office.

They are joking around.

“Hey, ” I say, as I walk in.

“Want me to call you?”

“Not now, ” says Arthur.

“Just one second, I have to answer a phone call.”

I wait for a moment, and when I turn around, Arthur has disappeared.

I walk out into the hallway.

“Hi, ” a voice calls out from behind me.

I turn to see a nervous-looking lawyer with red hair.

“Hi, I’m looking for Arthur,” I say, “Do you know where he is?”

“No idea,” the guy says, nervously twitching his thumbs.

“We just came in, and he was here.

I was talking to him, but he left, and I don’t know where he went.

Did you talk to him?”

I don’t recognize him.

“Are you here to see him?”

“Yeah,” he says, nervously twitching his thumbs.

“I can go and ask around.

He was here earlier.

He said he had something to go talk to the partners about.

I’ve been here all morning, but he just left.

I think it’s something about the company he’s suing.

It’s a big company, and it’s been going on for a while.

I don’t think it was anything to do with his personal life.

I don’t know, really.