35 day later

Graduation April 24, 2009. Thanks for the pics Shari!

It has been 35 days since I left New York City. I have taken some time off, gone to California and Moab. I officially graduated from BYU and am now living in my parents basement. Pretty awesome, right? I am definitely a catch for the ladies at the moment. It's all good though. Things will get better in the future.
Not that I haven't felt the need to move on with life and get a job and stop chillaxin after graduation, but now I am really feeling it. It has been great spending time with my parents this past month. I really have not spent this much time with them in over seven years. Living with them has also helped me want to get out and take on the world with guns blazing. Speaking of guns, I need to sell mine. The gun is one of my assets that has carried its value. Hopefully someone will buy it so I can stay out of the debtors bull's eye.
Returning to the opening sentence, Was leaving New York the best decision? I am not sure yet. Many of my friends from school are out there now. It would be fun to be out there with them. Plus I miss all the friends I was able to have while out there. Good times.
I am leaving home base to go back to the beach from May 11 through May 23. Holllllaaa! Something good should happen in respect to the job hunt. Check you later.

Check it

I woke up around 8:30 this morning and had a slightly apathetic outlook on the day. When I arrived at the 1 line 157 subway stop I found out that someone had fallen into an oncoming train.

I am not sure whether the person decided life was to hard, someone pushed him or her, or that the individual just fell. It is a tragedy either way.

I hope this economic slump does not carry the hopelessness of the Great Depression that I have heard about from grandparents and others. I think this is a time for our characters to be tested and a time for me to analyze what I am made of. So I thought of some goals to give me hope.

1. To have a net worth of $5 million by age 45 (Not sure how that is going to work out yet)

2. To save $250,000 by age 35 (That is only $25k a year starting now)

3. To get married and have a kid or two in the next five years. I have noticed that as my age increases so does my selfishness.

4. To run a business (Not sure what that will be yet either. Ideas will come.)

5. Read 100 great books (I have no reading habits at the moment)

6. Write a novel

7. Sail in the Caribbean

8. Strive to strengthen family relationships (even though they are already strong)

9. Stay healthy

10. Stay positive

I constantly have to remind myself that anything is possible and have to check my dream-crushing at the door. My Grandma Myla said, "You can do anything you want to do."
My Grandpa Roy would follow up with, "As long as you are willing to pay the price."

Do what you want to do and be happy.

My own story

I finally started my own blog. I have always thought of blogs as something that established people do. I would like to think that I am almost established, but guess it all depends on the individual perspective. 

Anyways, this is the beginning of my personal online blog, and in another sense, a beginning of a new chapter in my life. Hopefully it will go well.