Hello...

To my 30's, that's right. I am turning 30 tomorrow, WOW! I can't believe how time flies and seems to pass you by. It makes you want to stop more often and enjoy the finer points in life, things you know that you don't remember. Because when I am 60 or 70 and retired, I won't remember baking a cake with my wife or chasing the cats around the back yard or anything like that. I will remember the big days and the memorable ones. That is why you have to make every moment memorable if possible, bc you never know when something may happen that changes everything. Sitting in a bar one night, I didn't know that I would meet the woman of my dreams and my future wife, nobody could have convinced me of that (not even after we met and I liked her). It just didn't seem possible that it could happen, after all I was only 27. I was still young and had time, but when the right one comes along, you can't waste time or play games. I'm tired of wasting time and making every day seem like the last and every week seem like the last and so on and so forth until each year is a repeat of the last. That isn't the way to go, I want to start having fun again, I enjoy married life more than single - no question, however, we need to have more fun...that's what life is about. Live it up, because it is the only one you have.
To that, we are having some friends and family over - not all could make it :( but we will still have a good time, remembering old stories and days past, reflecting on what got us here and what will take us into our futures. I will miss my 20's, they did a lot for me. Graduated college (which almost nobody thought I would do), got my first real job and was successful at it, met my wife, got married, and overall learned a lot about myself. If a decade goes by and you didn't learn anything or not much, then the time was wasted. Ten years may be a lot, but when they are done - they are more of a blink of an eye -- just memories. Hopefully the next ten will be even better, so that when I am about to go over the hill (40) I can look back at my youth and be proud.