So 2005 is here. Yesterday was my birthday, and I turned 30. I think that having a birthday so close to the new year is good, because I can associate things that happened during a year in my life to a calendar year, and having associations like that make that little OCD part of my brain happy. I’m going to post a blurb about my birthday and aging soon, but I have a lot of thoughts rambling through my head that I want to get out.

I’ve been really looking forward to 2005 and for a lot of reasons. I think that 2004 was probably the worst year of my life. It was rough personally and not outstanding professionally. I lost my father and maternal grandmother, my last living grandparent. I cried a lot, watched my family blossom into an amazing group of adults that I love to be with and spend time with, watched the birth of my first son and I guess that things will balance out.

I had a really good conversation with my friend Darren and he told me that last year was the ‘Year Of Humility’. That has been quite true in my life, and I am hopefully better for it. He also told me that 2005 is the ‘Year of Favour.”

I like that.

I have a great project that I’ve been working on and I’m hoping and wishing and praying that it works out, because it could be big (no, bigger than that.) I’ve been working really hard and taking a lot of pride in it, hoping that we’re going to make it. More on it soon. I also am thinking a lot about things that I want to accomplish in 2005. I’m not talking about resolutions, because I can resolve to do anything at any time. These are things where I really want my life to change, hopefully for the better. OK, I guess they are almost the same :). I want to blog more and worry less. I want to teach my daughter to skate and shoot, and my son to walk. I want to visit the country more, and deal with traffic less (YEAH VTA). I want to spend more time with my wife. I want to lose a little bit of weight, and do it slowly and healthily. I want to start a journal, (that’s like an analog blog for those technocrati among you ;) of ideas and wisdom that I want my kids to know someday. An entry on parenting, one on aging, one on faith, one on love. All the things that are important to me, and especially things that I’ve had trouble with. I have another entry or 2 that I want to write about today even, so hopefully I’ll do that too. But, as I am fond of saying… “Sometimes Real Life gets in the way.”

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