People

Have you ever realized that people are probably the most interesting thing on the planet. Now, I'm not saying that there aren't other very interesting things in the universe, I'm just saying that people are probably the most complex things ever. I don't know all of the science behind the workings of the human body and mind, but I love to sit and think about it. I often find myself watching people and analyzing their actions. I think my favorite place to people watch is the Tanner building. During passing periods so many people crowd the terraces and the stairs. They are rushing to the next class or where ever they are going and they all have their own separate thoughts that are very different from the person next to them. The funnest part about people watching is trying to think about what is going on in the persons mind that is sitting right next to you or that just walked by. I will never know what they are really thinking but the fun part it is wondering.

Perhaps even more interesting than people watching, is getting to know someone. I don''t often talk to people out of the blue. I am very talkative once you get me going but I am actually a pretty quiet guy most of the time.     Lately, I have been trying to choose a course to follow in life (major/career), and it isn't very easy when there are so many choices. I kind of felt like I was the only one like that until I began a conversation with the person next to me. It turned out that we had the same questions about the same things that we just couldn't find the answers to, which was comforting. I didn't take comfort in the fact that he was struggling with his course in life, but that there are people out there who are more similar to me than I thought. Everyone is different, that is true, but people are more similar in more ways than I realized.

People are the most interesting thing on the planet...

Lemonade

It is so funny how people always tell you, "When life serves you lemons, make lemonade." I wonder who made up that saying and if they realized how true that really is.

I was in the middle of a job application the other day and one of the questions it asked was, "What percentage of your life do you believe that you actually control?" As I sat there contemplating what percentage I thought I controlled, my initial reaction was 100%. But then I sat there and began to think a little more, I realized that yes, we do control a large portion, if not all, of our lives; but there is a small part that I think we do not control and that is meant to help us grow. It would be nice if we could decide everything that could happen to us, but that would make life so boring.

The last couple of weeks seem to have been full of silver platters loaded with lemons that just keep coming my way. I'm not going to lie, it hasn't been as fun as I would've liked, but I know that if I can make gallons of sweet lemonade as a result, I will have grown tremendously. I find comfort in the fact that my wife is right by my side. She has had her fair share of citrus, and I admire her for staying strong and keeping me strong at the same time. There will come a time when we will look back at this moment in time and laugh, but also remember the humbling experience that it was.

I love you Rachel...long time!

Back to Life Again

Life never goes how you would expect it to. The harder I try to organize and plan my life, the more crazy and unorganized it becomes. Example: Rachel and I's goal was to wake up early this morning, eat breakfast and calmly walk to class however when Rachel and I woke up 15 minutes before our classes started, the goals went out the window. There was no breakfast and the calm walk to class turned into a mad dash for the car and a very very very brisk power-walk to campus. I guess it is not so bad because it keeps life entertaining. Although compared to how busy our summer was, this semester of school seems like it will be relatively uneventful couple of months...not! Rachel and are keep very busy and rarely have free time. We are balancing school, work and also each other. If you know either of us, we can very moody and dramatic so seeing us together can be interesting to say the least.

We just finished the last of the wedding events as we arrived home from our reception in Colorado late Sunday night, or should I say early Monday morning (5:00am). Now the only remnants of our wedding to do list include: thank you notes (bear with us, they may take a while to get out), wedding licence and UNPACK. It really is amazing how much time and effort gets put into planning a wedding and how stressful it can be. When Rachel and I got engaged we had three months before the big day and I thought that was plenty of time, but as I soon learned, it was a major time crunch to be under. The funny thing is, all of the planning, stress is for an event that only lasts a couple of hours (some of the happiest hours of my life), but it turned out great.