Early starts

I don't often get a really early start to my day.  You know where you get up an hour or two before you need to and just jump start your day?

Yep, this morning definitely wasn't that.  But I really like to have an early start to my day.  I feel so accomplished then by mid-morning.  It is hard because even when I have to get up "early" (8ish) I usually only wake up with enough time to shower and get dressed.  But that's not enough time to really get the day going.  I really like what a friend blogged about taking breakfast (see post).  It's such an important thing to do in getting an early start to your day.

Maturity

I am very excited to say that I will have a nephew at the end of June this year.  I am so happy for my brother, sis-in-law, and niece.  Adding another one to the family.

As I've been thinking about them and my own life it is weird to think that I will also have kids sometime in the future (at least I hope I do... I think I hope so anyway haha).  I have been thinking about what it means to grow up and what becoming an adult looks like.  I am realizing as I get older and new children are born that time continues to move forward despite how I've sometime viewed life.  And what I mean is that time, the earth, life, etc. does not revolved around me (crazy, right?)    I know that sounds ridiculous but I have definitely looked at life like this before.  I have had this selfish/egotistical/ideal view that as my life progresses time moves right in step.  But that is not at all the case.

As I see my brother have children I see that a new generation is being born and growing up.  In a decade or so I will be the uncle (I am one already, but I mean the uncle that my niece and nephew will recognize as their uncle).  Those figures (my uncles) that I had as a child and as I grew up... I will be that guy.  Time is a weird thing.  And so is growing up (I just hope that growing up is accompanied by maturity as well).

Not a big deal.

I finally got around to updating and changing up my blog a little bit.  Hope it's better than it was previously.

new years eve anecdote

Today started off as an alright day, worked a 4-hour shift at Apple.  Then I went to 4 Rivers.  I knew we were going to close a little earlier because of New Years.  Little did I know what I was about to get myself into at 3pm.  To-gos hit the ground running when I was there and for two straight hours (3-5pm) we were non-stop.  All of that was well and good when I heard we were closing at 5pm.  Haha, that was not at all the case.  Turns out we actually did not stop serving people until about 7pm.  And then we got out by 9pm.  Glad we were able to get out before midnight.

Crazy day.  Happy New Year's ya'll!

It's two thousand twelve!