The Final Countdown

Disclaimer: You should not read this if you have something better to do. Um... you don't even have to read this one if you have something worse to do. It isn't that good.

WOW,
So I have been in this "final countdown" for officially 25 days. That is the number that I actually started with when I wrote down the dates on the calendar. That is the day when I felt it appropriate to actually number the days. The actual time span has been more like 60 days... but I didn't want to put myself under that kind of suspense.

This is the final countdown to spring break 2009. Most people associate spring break with relaxation, cleaning, partying, road trips, and many other things. For me this year means spring break with J. and E. out in California. E. will be 8 months pregnant when we see them, so I expect I will be spending a significant time watching "the belly" move by itself.

Anyway I wanted to say that I haven't counted down to anything since the wedding, but that would be a lie. I tend to count down to a lot of things in my life. I counted down to KMEA when I got to go to W and spend time refreshing my personal and social life.

I counted down to the work day that I had last Friday so that I could actually get my fifth grade program choreographed and finished.

After spring break I will be counting down to May 22, which is the work day at the end of the year. Lord knows that will be a difficult countdown. I may just have to number that one on the good old planner so that I don't have to re-count it every week.

Sometimes I try to get myself to stop counting down. I don't think it is good for me to be looking ahead all of the time. I have goals that I am going to live in the present. I actually have done a pretty good job of living in the present at school this year. I lived in the present so much that the first 9 weeks of second semester flew by. I just need to figure out how to do that again.

Well... this post is pretty much boring for anyone who read it... there were no anecdotes or interesting stories... just little things about my thought processing for life.

I think I will go back to the beginning and put a disclaimer.