I haven’t had much to say lately so I’m sorry I haven’t updated in a while. My life, as usual, is boring. I changed my major, changed my school, changed my job and yet feel like I would bore people. I think when you put yourself out in a public forum like this you have a self-imposed desire to entertain, provoke and inspire. Sometimes that’s just too much pressure so I opt out until I either let it go so long that posting about not having posted is the entire reason for breaking silence or until I have something wonderful and amazing to relate (I wonder which category this post will fit into?).
I’m watching the Patriots/Steelers game right now, having witnessed the Cowboys comeback earlier, and it’s a wonderfully cold day outside. It’s football weather and if we had a fireplace I would be hearing the crackling of wood and feeling the soft, subtle warmth radiating around the living room. Sadly, we do not have a fireplace. Brady just hit Moss for his second touchdown in about 2 minutes. Unstoppable.
As far as Christmas goes, we’re pretty much done. I finished all of their presents earlier this week and Leanne is out doing some shopping to finish up her family and get some of mine. I hope. Currently we have about twenty-something presents under the tree and zero, ZERO, are for me. That doesn’t seem right to me. I have faith though. On Christmas morning I will have at least one present under there, otherwise I’ll be a sad panda.
London had a friend over last night. They had a good time, getting rambunctious at times as boys do, and he got to play with someone other than his parents for a while. I think they played video games more than they actually interacted but that’s what the kids are doing these days. We were going to make ask them to go outside and, you know, experience the world but it was cold and rainy today so…..
I start my new job tomorrow and I’m excited. We’ve already been invited to the office Christmas Party on Wednesday night so that should be fun. Food, drink and casino night. Leanne and I will have fun, I’m sure, and we’ll get to feel like adults. I know we are adults but since we’re both still in school and not actually doing what we want professionally with our lives yet we always feel like we’re stuck in a state of perpetual young adulthood instead of full-on adulthood. We are no longer twenty-somethings but sometimes still feel like it. It’s a weird sensation because in almost all aspects of my life I’m doing what my parents did when they were raising us and I just don’t feel like I’m that grown up yet. Maybe I am and I just fool myself into thinking I’m not. Maybe it’s Peter Pan syndrome. Or, maybe, the world has just changed what it means to be an adult and Leanne and I are doing what we can to raise our family and give ourselves the life we want.
I hope you are all doing well and, in case you don’t hear from me again for a while, have a happy holiday season.
