a new day.

This has been one hell of a week. This Saturday morning marks the seventh full day of my vacation from work and it has been amazing. One fantastic and beneficial element of this break is the one lone fact that it has separated me from work for a sustained period of time...which is essential for my sanity. I have accomplished a lot of personal things as well on my week off. I purchased a new battery for my MacBook which was a task I had put off for quite some time.  I had grown accustomed with toting my computer with the charger being a fixture.  What good is a immobile mobile device??!?!  I also cleaned out both my car and Sabrina's car which was a relatively painless task and given the unseasonably warm weather, seemed like a sensible thing to accomplish.  We also accomplished multiple games of Scrabble which was something else that had been on our list of "to do's".

There were multiple other things that I accomplished that had a school slant.  I ordered my books from Chegg.com (which I swear by and would recommend to everyone in need of cheap rented books.)  They were delivered within two days!  On December 23 we adopted pet rats into our household.  This week has also been quite beneficial to their involvement in our daily lives and incorporation into our living situation.  We had all of the bare necessities prior to their adoption, but there were a number of unseen tweaks to the case and our own living quarters that were necessary for daily living on our own and their end to be seamless, organized, and clean.

But the most beneficial element of this break was the rest and relaxation that we achieved.  We undoubtedly had a few arguments during our extended period together...but we are two intelligent humans living in direct proximity of one another.  Buying a new bed helped with that a lot.  Sabrina needs a firm bed to receive the highest quality sleep.  I was under the impression that a firm bed wasn't essential in my sleep experience, but every night since its introduction has been some of the best sleep in recent memory.  My dreams have been easier to recollect and more vivid in nature.  And I have felt great every morning.  Sleep and our new bed has been one improvement to the "rest and relaxation" area of our lives, but in addition we both succeeded in taking life as it came and as we saw necessary in the moment.  We accomplished things that we needed to accomplish, but the sense of urgency was absent.  I look to live this way on a regular basis.  Once work and school are reintroduced, it will be easy and habitual to fall back into these lazy and rushed ways of living.  I hope to be vigilant in the face of these potentially antagonizing aspects of our lives.  They are and will continue to be present and around every corner.  It's only how we deal with these that makes our lives seem and feel more stressful.  It sounds easy.  Just do it.  Right?  Nike!  But many times it isn't that easy.  But it really is.  I just have to be strong and see the positive.

I has been a great week.  I am relaxed.  We did dinner with friends at Sushi Kame and caught up with some friends that, were at one point very strong, but have faded into the background.  This tends to happen with people.  In my experience, people move on to living more self important lives.  Marriage normally brings this about.  Two people decide to spend tens of thousands of dollars to celebrate their decision to become married.  They labor for months prior to organize and then....

virgin experience......from a blog standpoint

So here goes........I have only recently began thinking about "blogging".  I suppose it's overly lame to quotation the word blogging, given it's prevalence in today's current state of slang tech terms.  Aside from my reservations to embark on said journey, it really has begin to make sense why so many have taken the steps to create and update an online journal, easily accessible to myself and others.  

I have struggled with this in the past.  Does it seem arrogant?  Why do I need to journalize my everyday life.........Why would I want to write everything down........It's quite a bit of work to complete this task.......How will this benefit me??????  All these questions and many more swirled through my spinning confused and easily put off brain.......and I suddenly realized....this all makes perfect sense.  

I have so many thoughts appear and disappear in my head on a daily basis and many disappear...never again to surface.  How could I hope to capture these thoughts?  Of course the answer is to, on a daily basis, write these things down.  It seems so simple!!!!  But this, not unlike many other "easy" things in life, I feel is destined to crumble.  The persistent pessimist that handicaps my inner dialogue arises.......DAMN YOU!!!!!!.........I'm working on this.  

Getting away from the possibility that this blog post, although my first, could be my last for quite some time, I feel that with unwavering discipline could greatly improve many aspects of my life.  First and foremost it could serve as a vocabulary exercise routine.  In normal every day conversation, the words that are screaming at me from the back of my head to be spoken out loud, usually are quickly silenced due to the reception they would receive coming from my mouth in particular.  Now weighing the possibility of writing my very own blog, this consequence is no longer a negative side effect with using the exact language in whatever way I feel necessary.  Will anyone ever read my blog.......most likely no.  If they do, does it really matter if I used correct grammar, or was clear as to what I was trying to convey......not in the slightest.  Why???........because none of these things truly matter in the grand scheme of things.  If nothing else, blogging will from this day forward be used as tool to better myself through the recording of my inner thoughts into an online datebase.

It's just so hard for me to strip away the terribly trendy nature of what I'm participating......guess I have every option with regards to keeping it a secret.