January 19, 2006 - Turning 26

In two days, (1/21) I will be 26. It's kind of scary to think I have lived longer than a quarter of a century, and even scarier to think I can remember all but a year or so of it. My birthday falls on the same day as a fellow co-workers, so I will most likely be going over to her and her fiances' place for a party. I used to not look at my birthday with a great deal of morose, but that has been changing in the last few years. People that I used to go to high school with are moving ever forward while I seem to languish behind. Perhaps when I post for turning 27 I can look back at this and say 'wow, so much has changed.'

Not much been going on in my neck on the woods. The weather has been phenomenal lately. Mid to upper 40's, the snow is almost completely gone and the ice is melting off.

My New Year's resolution is still in full swing. I lost 12 pounds as of Sunday (1/15) and this past Wednesday I started going to a gym to work out, so now the affects should really start being noticeable. I is hard to pass up on the things I really want, but I hope that by this spring or summer I can look back and feel it was worth it.

I have been trying, with some degree of success, to assimilate Tess as a closer friend. She and another couple of co-workers work out at the same gym I am, so there could feasibly be more opportunity to talk or more personal topics, but I don't know. A part of me is tempted to tell her of my romantic inclinations at the part this Saturday, when she might not be completely sober; but knowing me, I will hide as I have for the last few years.

Here's hoping for a better post next time!