new year, new lists

Well you will be happy to know that I have taken down my Christmas tree tonight. My living room is back to normal. Life is back to normal, whatever that really means anyway. Unlike last week's blog I will not make this one private.

I am drinking some excellent seasonal beer while listening to old music that I fairly recently was lucky enough to acquire from a friend.

I will now leave you with a couple of lists seeing as how we are coming up on a new year! Unfortunately, I have to work this New Year's, but I suppose I had enough fun last year to make up for it...

Things I have learned this year and others that I should probably have already known:

- the sun can be an evil thing
- sometimes things happen for no particular reason
- sometimes people enter our lives, leave us, only to return again and again...
- it is easier to meet people than it is to say goodbye
- it is necessary to route all cables before proclaiming that a DVD player does not work.
- it is harder to figure out what it is that you want than it is to actually get what you want
- i am much worse at tennis than I previously thought
- higher education isn't all it's cracked up to be
- it is more fun to fly than to drive
- zaxby's is addictive because i want some right now and i'm not even hungry
- i grow tired of things before the newness even has a chance to wear off
- i am seriously the luckiest unlucky person ever
- some things that I used to think were important really aren't
- i don't need a lot of the things i think i need, but i need some of the things i think i want
- family is not always blood-related and you can choose who your family is
- time really does go faster the older you get
- my wants change before i can even make up my mind
- sometimes things are unable to be written or explained or understood

In the spirit of the new year and the time for making lists, I will also leave you with some of my favorite albums of 2008 (in no particular order):

- Snow Patrol A Hundred Million Suns
- Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak
- Coldplay Viva la Vida
- Secondhand Serenade A Twist in my Story
- Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
- 3 Doors Down 3 Doors Down
- Leona Lewis Spirit
- Jason Mraz We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
- Raine Maida The Hunter's Lullaby

This is all I can think of off the top of my head, but I am certain that I am leaving some out.

I think it's time to go to bed now. I must ensure that some preventative maintenance is done on my Honda in the am. I will leave you with this...

"I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream."

- from Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Night,

E


(Sorry I am a slacker, but this blog was originally posted on my myspace 12.30.08)