Changes

Not even three months ago, I was a coffee hater and now, I'm going downtown to Serda's about 2 or 3 times a week for somethin'. Two years ago you couldn't have shown me an oyster without me avoiding it and now I have a constant craving for oysters Bienville.

I have to wonder.. how many other things would I enjoy if I just tried it? While this applies primarily to food, I think it'd be fair to say that there's been a lot of other things I hadn't tried because I wasn't interested when I was younger. Surfing is something I'd love to do, same with scuba diving. I mean, sure, I might get eaten by a shark or somethin' and that's definitely not on my top ten list of ways to die but I'm not gonna let it dissuade me from attempting it one day. Actually.. my sister has her scuba license so I need to talk to her about that..

Then there's the things I've wanted to do for a while that I simply managed to just put off for a variety of reasons. This spring, one or another, I am going to visit the state park up in Conecuh county and see how far I can hike there. Wanna say it's almost a 40 mile hike so I need to get my ass back in shape, obviously. I'd love to go rafting, take up some sort of a sport.. basically living outdoors as much as possible. Staying in a house makes me restless, quickly.. I'll find something to do if it'll get me out. Unfortunately our unseasonal weather this year has been kind of a drag the past few weeks.. bah.

Intro

So this would be my first blog on this particular site. Should mean I'll be blogging only to myself for a while so.. perfecto.

Today I'm takin' my nephew to Game Spot to pick out his birthday present.. I wasn't ever able to get a clear answer on what he wanted from my brother so I'll let him pick out his own. There was a time not too far gone when I'd have pretty much ignored it but.. at some point it became obvious that I can't just live my life for me. I've been a pretty useless uncle for a long time.. I have a lot of relatives that I actually haven't kept tabs on in years and for all I know, they could be dead or in prison or somethin' equally unfortunate. When I was younger I had nephews and nieces that looked up to me and I felt that.. I dunno, that maybe it wasn't important enough to live up to that obligation. So now that I'm 26 years old, I finally decided to try and be a good uncle.. a good brother, and a good son.

It'd be easier if good was a naturally occurring event in my life.