good bye 2007

Well there goes another year, *waves. What happened?  Well I'll tell you what happened....

I started off the year courting a lady.  By the first week, a girlfriend for the first time in 3 years. My single streak was over.  And like the asshole that I am I dumped her after about 6 months.  She was a good girl, with a good heart, just not for me, and I not for her.
 

Before I knew it I had graduated and left my best friends behind in Missouri, and headed off to my adventure in the the Colorado rockies to work.

I still don't know what to make of it, but I did realize so much about who I am and how I constantly take risks and need my friends and family. Here's some of my favourite pictures I took there though...

That was most of my year actually, since then I've been living back in Texas with my best friend from high school doing archaeological work as a field technician, a few weeks of work in some random state of America, a few weeks off at home in Texas. It's not my ideal work, but at least it's in my area of interest. Now I'm just working on getting my graduate school applications in.

I've made the year exciting, but when I look back at it, it was pretty rough for me physically and mentally.  And strange as well.  Just sort of finding myself I guess.  The thing that makes it so worthwhile though is that I can confidently look back and see how much I've grown as a human being. The experiences just build you know?  The most roller-coaster of a year I've ever had for sure.

i hate leaving home

I really hate leaving home, like, my house where I grew up and where my mom and dad live. It doesn't make any sense either because I go home and leave constantly. I figured I would get used to it, and I'm 22 years old now damn it! Hell, I went to school for 4 years in another state, and I'm still not over home. It's not like I get homesick really either, I mean, I have times where I miss home, but I never let it hold me back from traveling as often as I do. I guess I know why I love home so much, but it doesn't seem right for me to get depressed half the time I leave. Do you miss home?

oh and by the way, Merry Christmas!

I'm all about quality time with my lady

Not that I have a lady right now, and whether that's a good thing or not is debatable...

but,

Complete set of results

Quality Time: 10
Acts of Service: 6
Physical Touch: 6
Words of Affirmation: 6
Receiving Gifts: 1

This fits well I think, but after all I did answer the questions, it's not like it read my mind... so it should fit me. I'd also like to think that ideally, the girl I'm seeing would prefer these same characteristics in the relationship. That way it would be easier to reciprocate!

Here's the Quiz

you, are, ridiculous.

it's all just like a dream.

not like a fantasy where everything is blissfully pleasant.

and yet not like a nightmare either.
but also not in between.  i just really want to be told that everything is really happening around me.

i'm talking about my life here.  go to hell!  perhaps it all is a dream? everything just seems so surreal. i can't believe how quickly time is going by. it seems unreal to believe all that has happened in the last few years. it's as if i would be foolish to take all that has happened in, and buy it as reality.  no way!  haha, this makes no sense as i re-read what i typed, and thought about a person reading it and trying to sort it out...oh well i know what i mean.

by the way i made this snowman as a 3d model in a computer program, yeah i can do anything.