Has it really only been a year?

Play it: One Year

Ah, f*ck it
I'm gonna have a party
I had the blankest year
I saw life turn into a T.V. show
It was totally weird
- "Blankest Year" Nada Surf

I just now realized that it's been one year since I started this here blog.

You know the phrase, "it seems like only yesterday?" Well screw that... it's been a looooong year. Maybe that's because so much has happened (and so little of it involving sleep.)

Here's the rundown: Bush won the 2004 election. I met my birth parents. I grew a killer mustache. My little sister died. My boy Eli was born. My grandfather died. All that was just in the first six months. Wow... I suppose it's gone a lot faster since that time (thanks to my wife and child,) but man alive that's a few years worth choked down in a short time.

I started the blog because I was frustrated w/ a lot on my mind and wanted to figure out a way to start writing again. The election, encountering my birth family, the impending death of my sister, and the expecting of a child... all these things weighed heavily on my mind at the time, and it's interesting to look back and see just how little I've written about all of them now.

Oh well... you can only pick a scab for so long (then you gotta get drunk.)

So f*ck it, I'm gonna have a party.