Just breathe...

So, right when things seem to be moving in the right direction... maybe it was just one of those days, but I'm starting to wonder if my luck has run out. I can hear friends from home telling me that things seem to always work out fine for me, or I'm lucky, or I always land on my feet. I used to disagree and think life was, well, pretty tough. Someone else used to tell me, think about what the worst thing that could happen and when you do that, you usually realize, the worst thing really isn't that bad. Well, here in Dubai, when I think things couldn't possibly get worse, somehow they do. The most random, would only happen to me, type things continue to happen. My car is not totalled and nobody is going to buy a wrecked Audi, there goes 5 or 10 thousand dollars, who knows..., I got an e-mail from home that momentarily freaked me out and my debit card has been cancelled because it is being used all over the world, Plaino, TX, Kuala Lumpur, Senegal and who knows where else. All the little things are frustrating, taking cabs everywhere, no bank account, no license, no car, etc., but add in any one of the other things and I would be pretty frustrated add in all three and I'm not sure how I'm not hysterical. The only thing I can think of, is that living and working here has lowered my expectations so low that things that would normally destroy me, now just seem like a common occurance that I can't be bothered to worry about too much... And, to top it all off, I think people from home really think life in Dubai is like being on vacation... By the way, we had no internet at work today, supposedly because a mouse chewed through the cable. Right.