So I’ve taken a little break from “life” as I know it for the past week or so, just to clear my head, stop working for a little while and try to gain a bit of perspective on life.  There are a lot of big things coming up in the spring, and next year in general, added to a list of huge things happening now, or just having happened in my life and in both of my businesses…so I decided that I needed a break.  I’m here in Auburn staying with my family, and will be leaving in 2 days to go visit the rest of my family in Indiana.  It’ll be nice/weird to be in a place without my wi-fi connection, good cell service, or any of the other things that I have come to lean on day to day.  Either way it goes, it’s always nice to spend some time with my family.  I hope to be back and kicking in the bham around the 2nd, and maybe even have a bit of direction going by then…but I’m trying not to get ahead of myself.

Today was a really cool day.  Obviously it was Christmas, so, as you can imagine, I did the whole Christmas thing with my family.  We had a great time, and I’m loaded with a slew of new books that are going to keep my head busy for the next week or so (plus probably a few months after I get home).  We also got to go bowling (real bowling, a supplement to our wii bowling that’s been a regular activity here for the past week) which was a great time.  Then to top things off I got a call out of the blue from my friend Sam.  Sam has never made an apperance on the blog, so I’d say that Christmas is the perfect time to introduce him.

Sam and I grew up together, and have know each other forever.  He’s one of the very few people that I still talk to regularly (i use that term semi-loosely) from my “previous” life.  Sam and I went to middle school through high-school together, and were almost always together for most of that time.  Just before I left Auburn for Birmingham, Sam up and moved to Paris, where he’s now attending AUP and doing really well.  So, Sam calling me to hang out today came as quite a surprise.  Here’s a pic of Sam that I snapped while we hung out with my family for a little while after going out and catching up a bit.

It was a fantastic surprise to top of my awesome Christmas day.  I hope you all had a great Christmas as well, and I’m looking forward to getting back home and back into the swing of things (keeping this updated a little better I hope) soon!  If I’m not back on here before…have a happy new years and be safe!!!

by the way…beware of the beard…it’s only getting bigger from here…