The New Year

So a couple hours until the New Year. Well more than just a couple but needless to say less than 12 hours. So much to reflect on with the passing of this year. The major advancement of my life happened in the last half of the year. I finished college, got a real career shaping kind of job, and made the woman I love my fiancee. My life has moved forward in leaps and bounds. As I said in previous posts I have also noticed that the things that I focus on have also changed. From concerns about trivial things, I now concern myself with bathroom remodeling and kitchen redesign. Its comforting though. Its a surreal thought to think of all that has and will continue to change in my life. Finances and priorities will all adjust to my new life with my soon-to-be wife and with my home. What is eerie is my lack of fear. I am not worried at all about the coming changes. I am excited for it. I am in fact in some ways wanting to rush into it headlong. Its not that I wanna rush into marriage (that takes time and planning). But I am thoroughly excited about the future and about what other things I will have to make decisions.

Well I have to get some food in me but I want to write more so I will shortly.

Life

So my life is in a huge shift. I am getting busier and busier. I remember when I was little I used to think that I would get a job and come home relax. Its interesting though to see how that is not the case and how in reality things are just getting busier. I mean its not like my fairy tale life is being destroyed but its one of those things that become more relevant.

I mean now I think of ways to improve the kitchen and bathroom of my house. The craziest part... I don't even live in that house yet. Today I was cleaning up my parents garage and arranging old photos and papers. When I look at them I see a fresh faced young boy who's only joy at the time is the 1:64 scale model of Jamestown that was painstakingly assembled from Popsicle sticks and clay. I then fast forward to now and see how my concern now is of mortgages, marble countertops, and closet space. Its just crazy how life advances in such ways. From Star Wars movies and camouflage to more pressing concerns like Wedding registries and wall colors. Wow. Thats how life is. The words from scripture come to mind:

1 Corinthians 13:11 ~ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Christmas Eve

Well the sad part of our first Christmas together as fiances is the fact that I unfortunately is that I have to spend it with my family in Georgia. I honestly love spending time with my family but it is difficult to be away from my love. I feel bad to be constantly sending text messages and such while my family is just around. The nice thing though is that they all understand because after all they know that I am engaged.

Seriously though all we have done today (aside from church) was an extreme movie marathon induced by my parents. The Devil Wears Prada, Step Up, and now another is in discussion. Either way its really fun hanging out with my cousins and with my aunt and uncle but truly the fact of the matter is that there is always going to be an open spot in my heart from now on for Anna. Always be a place that will be missing her. She is spending time with her family right now going and seeing the Christmas lights in Richmond. I so wish that I could be there and see the lights too. I also need ot teach her more on how to do the pictures and how to make the settings on the camera to make the most optimal picture.

Well let me just get going and spend more time with my family. I also have an unction to start a little bonfire. Off to find a hatchet and some dry wood.

P.F. Changs

Beef a la Sichuan. I am going to try it for the first time. I realized now that I haven't utilized the capabilities of my phone for full mobile blogging. Unfortunately the goofy thing doesn't support image attachment. Now of course with my moblog over at textamerica getting shut down I gotta finish up. Well stuffs coming to the table. I will post later.

werk

werk right before christmas... always fun where 13 bajillion things need to get finished before then...

to add to it i wont be able to spend time with my fiancee on christmas and will be with my family instead in GA which i dont mind so much but its tough being away from my fiancee...

ugh...

Testing

Testing the image attachment capabilities of gmail

The Office

Ok so I have blogged alot today, but alot has gone on. This morning I moved offices out of the Central Office and into one of my Elementary schools. I have to be honest that I can't go into the details of what caused the move but its my first encounter with office politics.

I know this is one of the things that makes working in the real world interesting. What gets confusing is that I have never done anything to the people involved but they get these attitudes about me. Its ok I still have the favor of my bosses wich is more important than the lower level people.

Moblog

OK... so for a REALLY long time I have had a Textamerica moblog. I had it all the way back when they were free and allowed lots of full customization... well they have grown and grown and now apparently they are closing down the "free" side of the house... so all users that are not paid subscribers will have their photo pages killed... its really not cool. i have actually gone thru 4 different phones with their service. Alot of the images I post up here on my blog are linked over from there. Well they wanna be punks like that its fine with me... I'm moving over to Picostation. They even have blogger support so even better.

Talaiver Online

so though my family has been active with computers and such for literally decades now we have yet to make a long permanent online presence... we have had domain names and websites before but never the full blown: talaiver.com or whatever... either way it will happen soon.. just felt like posting

Further craziness

Today at 8AM I have my graduation commencement practice then I have work then I goto Williamsburg to pick up my Fiancee then I proceed to come home. Tomorrow the actual graduation takes place and then finally ends up with the obligatory party. MAN!! I am just too busy for my own good. I feel like I am all over the place but this craziness has only really hit full sweing these last few weeks. Now I suddenly have the urge to blog and I dont know why but my cool Blog widget isnt working any more. Not that I ever really used the widget before but I do want to now. I mean I am engaged. Which I do need to expand on in the blog. But yea I have made a commitment to a beautiful girl that I will marry her. Its so exciting.

While at the same time I am truly stepping into my own as far as financial independence and the ever growing need for time. Its amazing to see how my life will unfold in the future. I was at dinner with some friends from work last night and just had kind of an epiphany of what would be coming in the near future for me. All the things that I will need to get ready to do. The things that I dont see but can see the paths leading to them. I have a very very crazy future and even crazier things to do. I cant wait for it all to start coming into exsistence.

I am engaged....

Its amazing...