It amazes me sometimes how caught up we get in our lives. How quickly time passes, while we stare out the window day dreaming. I always feel like I am a busy person. Like there is so much to be done and no time to do it. But really this isn’t the case, because at the same time I can look back at the last month, ask myself what I did and generally speaking the answer stays the same. I work. I sleep (minimally at that). I eat. I go dancing (some weeks more than others). Occasionally I will meet someone for a ‘coffee date’, you know those random times with friends that can make up such a large part of our lives. Or mine at least. Other than my times hanging out with Cheryl, if I were to lose my ‘coffee dates’ I would likely lose all of my social interaction outside work and church.
The holidays were pretty good. I have decided it really bothers me how commercialized Christmas is. How many people actually acknowledge it for what it is, a celebration of our Saviours birth. The importance of the event, the occasion that are the cause of it, are completely lost and forgotten by nearly everyone- religious and non religious alike. It actually almost bothers me to the point of total frustration sometimes, but that is old news with it already nearing late Jan. My brother and his wife made it home for Christmas from the States this year, so we had the whole family together for the first time (first time since my niece was born) and I believe our first Christmas as a whole in three years or so. It was awesome. I got to spend some one on one time with both of them, which was a rare treat and I really appreciated it. Outside of that it was just another couple of weeks. I worked straight through the ‘holidays’ I am in the hospitality industry after all...
As for what the New Year brings, that is a good question. I got a guitar, so I hope the New Year brings new musical talents. I hope for time to dance, the opportunity to sing, and the chance to meet new people, to make new friends, and to touch base with old ones. I hope to learn things, to make a difference, to have some unique experiences, and to enjoy my life. To travel somewhere I have never been, to try something totally new, to step out of my comfort zone every now and then, and to have a year that at the end of it, I can look back and smile in perfect contentment, knowing that I have lived it to its fullest. I know, who doesn’t want these things right? But even if I share these wants with others, it makes them no less mine.
Work is going alright. I am slowly getting more and more recognition as a manager, from staff, customers, and the other managers. I am beginning to receive more and more management tasks, more responsibilities. I quite like that part of it. And otherwise, life just is. Nothing new or exciting to report. No big plans for a trip (not yet at least, keep posted for anything fun like that).
Ok. Battery on my lap top is about to die. Good night, stay in touch, and try to make someone laugh today- really really laugh. Chao!
ps. I ate Japanese food and lived to tell about it, a pretty big feat for me!
