Ryan Studemeyer: Great friend for many years. Without him, I would be lost and not having a sense of brotherhood that he's been able to give me. And, to make things interesting, he's now volunteered to be my workout partner for 2011. So, someone that takes my quirks and still wants to help me become a better person.
Christian Andersen: A great friend through work, but one who still extends himself to be a friend outside of work as well. There's been many times I've had issues (especially with women) since I've known him where I instinctively text or call him for advice. There have been days where I want to yell at him for being so sarcastic and crass, but it's worth it!
Now, on to the fun topics I promised to talk about: Money and Family
Money: Being the fact that I work in the restaurant business, money isn't predictable for me. I'm thoroughly blessed with parents who still provide for me and still love me enough to continue to do so. The hardest parts where times I didn't manage my money well and would have to resort to having to go to bed after work without eating for fear of spending any money on food. Worst parts would be times where I would come home from work, exhausted and hungry, to find I had no food to eat. Other times, I would happily eat a poptart so that way I could have something in my stomach.
Luckily, in the part of 2010 that I was staying at home or at University Oaks, I was able to better budget my money and was able to take the lessons of living on campus to heart. I'm glad that I was able to take what I learned and applied it to my spending habits. Now if I can just stop spending so much on music and video games....hmmm
Family: I try to live by the idea that "blood is thicker than water", in that my family is my pulse. Without my family, I wouldn't have anything left that would be tangible and secure. My family, God bless them, has their issues. But, as all great families do, we work through them all and still find some way to make everything we do together special. I'm blessed beyond belief that in 2010 my family got to help me through some things, which in turn helped me become more open with my parents. The best part was getting off my chest some issues of my past that I wanted so badly to tell them, but was so scared I would diminish in their eyes. But, my parents continued to shower me with love and made me realize that family is forever. "Can't live with them, sure as hell can't live without them" (as my professor told me once regarding family)
So, part two of my letter to 2010 is done. I still got more to go, albeit a short little debriefing on everything left that I have yet to touch on. Part three I'll talk about some memorable moments and what changes I have planned for 2011. Expect that entry sometime this weekend or maybe next weekend, but no promises. School starts soon and that is priority number one
Song of the post: "Song for the Broken"-Close Your Eyes
One of my favorite bands that I discovered in 2010. Hope to see them soon live in SC or somewhere near here
No comments:
Post a Comment