"These Foolish Things Remind Me of You"

The week is off to a great start! Monday was upbeat and optimistic. Tuesday (today) got off to a bumpy start but it's not a bad day. Plus, Glee is on tonight and I've got "Teenage Dream" stuck in my head. (: This week is gonna be great and I know that I can push forward and make up for lost time, considering how gloomy it was last week. Even with my sunny disposition though, there's just something that feels kind of funny to me and it borders on foreign.
It all starts with a necklace. Over the years, one signature piece I've always had is a silver necklace. Simple, understated and yet very much a part of my personal sense of balance. I have a tendency to change the pendants and replace them with either the wear and tear of using them daily or just because I found something pretty to wear around my neck. I went back to the original pendant of the chain I'm currently using (a heart made up for aquamarine stones) and very recently and one of the stones fell out. So I quickly had to change charms and the only one I had left was none other than a charm I haven't moved from it's box in almost 2 years.
2 years ago, David gave me this charm for Christmas. It's a silver Christmas wreath made of hollies and was meant to be a part of the charm bracelet he bought me for Christmas. I personally never got to put the charm on my bracelet so it's been in it's little box unused until now. Until I find a new charm, this one is now resting on my neck.
Let me be the first to tell you... it feels weird to be wearing it. I never wore it when we were together because I had every intention of attaching it to my charm bracelet and because I was afraid of ruining it. Now, I wear it because otherwise I'd feel naked not having a charm in its place and it serves as a placeholder. Even so, it reminds me of this time of year in retrospect of last year and the year before last. In 2008, we were just starting out. In 2009, I was single, close to rounding off my first year of being single and fresh off my experience of  meeting Tyra Banks and the cast of Glee. 2010... nada.I'm not so sure if it'll seem like nothing once I experience the year ahead of me but still. I can't help but feel reminded of the last two years of my life just by wearing this necklace. I hope that I can get a new charm soon because even if this is psychosomatic and I'm just imagining all these reminders of what happened two years ago, it still feels weird.
Hopefully this won't ruin the rest of my week. There's a hockey game this weekend!!! :D