this thing with numbers.

For a few years now I have had this thing where I would always see certain numbers.

Every time, for the longest time and still, when I would look at the clock it would read 4:20

...not what your thinking...

I would see it in both the am and pm hours. I never read much into it, I thought it was kind of funny because of what it does commonly represent... until it became a regular occurrence.

It will come and go at will. I'll see it for awhile as I'll glance at clocks, then not at all.

((and don't think it may be because I have a good conception of time...because if any of you reading this know me at all, you'll know my internal clock is permanently set to snooze))

Now however, it is following me in other means.

When I moved to Kansas my house number was 204. When I moved to Des Moines and stayed with my old friend Wyatt, he and Derek's house number was 4220. I was seeing a doctor for a little while about 2 months into my move. His house number was actually 420. The house number of my current residence is 4205.

Nothing significant has ever happened to me a 20min past the 4th hour, nor 4min past the 20th hour or at any combination of those numbers. Nothing on April 20th or Feb 4th.

I went to a store looking for a few miscellaneous items and struck up a conversation with the lady running the store. I went into detail with her about my freaky thing with those numbers. She said the zero meant nothing because it has no value and to focus on the 2 and 4 and to keep in mind they add to 6. *I have not had anything with 6 yet* As I was cashing out I glanced down at the counter to see some hematite rings in a dish. I had always liked how they looked so I started looking for a 9. I was working at it for a good 5 minutes to no avail. I just happened to look over to a different case and see these claddagh rings in a small black case. I had always thought they were neat-o and have wanted one since I saw one my grandmother owned quite a few years ago. So I went for a look only to find the first ring I picked up was in fact a 9...the one size I had been searching for among the hematite rings to find not a one. I was pleased to say the least. I looked down at the small tag attached to read 240 followed by a couple of letters. I looked up the nice woman behind the counter and speechless, I showed her the tag...her jaw dropped. We stood there for a minute until she said "You were meant to have that ring." I didn't quite know what to think or to say.

I have asked around in the family to see if anyone had ever died or been born on 2-04 or 4-20 or if anything major ever happened in June, the 6th month. Well, I just thought of someone who was born in June as I typed it out...yikes! Now I really don't know where to go with this one.

In the Blog published just before this...I decided to post the lyrics of No Doubt's "Simple Kind of Life." It is a wonderful song and the lyrics actually have meaning for me.

I went to http://www.nodoubt.com/ clicked on Music, scrolled down to the album, Rings of Saturn and clicked the little "V" to the right of "Simple kind of Life" Upon doing so a little RealPlayer popped up to show the video...the total time of play for the song...

yep, you guessed it...4 minutes,20 seconds

I had always liked the song ever since it came out in 2000...but here just a few years ago, it started to have meaning. It's not that though...really. Seeing 4:20 started a few years before.

Keeping my eyes open...