A Crazy 5 Months

Before I begin with what is mostly a happy blog, I want to get this out of the way: I'm sorry to anyone that I have hurt in the last 6 months. Sometimes I can be very selfish and I have done a lot of things I wish I could have back in my life. Just so happens that a lot of them happened in the last year.

I had done a really good job of not letting my blog fall into disrepair, but life intervened. It turns out blogging for me isn't such a high priority when I don't have much to complain about. Yes, after the past couple of years filled with disappointment and failure in the realm of relationships, I finally have a good thing going. What seems like years ago, I wrote about a "messy situation that will only get messier." Well it turns out that I was right, that it is/was a messy situation, but I dived headfirst into it anyways because the person involved is such a special person.

Obviously, I'm talking about the girl I've been seeing for the past 5 months. We have our ups and downs but at the end of the day I feel a very strong bond between the two of us that seems to get better with each passing weekend. Where is this all going? I really don't know for sure, and I try not to get too ahead of myself, but I'm generally happy with the way things are right now. I do know this: the times we spend together are the highlights of my week, and the positive changes that have come in my life recently are ones that she heavily influenced. I don't really want to make all the details of our relationship public, and those of you that are closest to me know much of the important stuff anyways, so I'll just end by saying that I feel blessed to have someone in my life that makes my days both interesting and fulfilling.

In other surprising news, it appears my time at home is coming to an end. I'm getting ready to move in with my good friend from work, Jeremy, down in Wadsworth. It's a much longer drive to school, but with that only being 2-3 days per week and work/Leslie (also in Wadsworth) being 7 days a week, well the gas was starting to kill my budget and it's time to grow up a bit anyways. My parents have been fantastic these past few years, but I want to leave before I become any sort of burden while at the same time trying to make it on my own. At age 26, it seems like a good time to try and be an "adult."

Finally, I wanted to discuss a last recent development that I may write about in further detail later. I gave up my bi-weekly DOTA sessions at Chris's house permanently. Now, this has nothing to do with the people there, as they are some of my absolute best friends and I won't be giving up the time with them at all, but my interest in DOTA has faded to near nothingness, and if that is all we're going to do when we see each other, I'm not going to bother showing up most of the time, since the game has become tedious to me. This was purely my decision...I didn't want to waste so much of my time doing something I really didn't enjoy anymore. Just another in a long line of changes that have come about in the never-ending quest to "grow up."

Join me next time when I discuss the importance of not giving up on your dreams, and how that applies to my life. Also, I want to discuss the role of God in my life, some sports stuff (including fantasy sports), finances, and holiday cheer. I promise it won't be 5 more months before I update again.


Songs of the Second:
Jimmy Eat World - Electable (Give it Up)
Avril Lavigne - Hot (stuck in my head a lot)
Dashboard Confessional - Clean Breaks
Coldplay - The Scientist (from the VAULT)