What's Important...

I've really enjoyed this break, so far. It's really given me a chance to see what's been happening since I've been gone. Yes, I was here back in February for Districts and December for Christmas, but that was all hanging out and whatnot.

The last couple of days, I've got to see and hear what I've missed not being around the last half a year...

My co-worker, Laramie, who has been one of the best people to work with the last three years, is pregnant and due in April. I hadn't seen her when I was back last month...she's nervous about being a new mum, but I know she'll be a good one.

James showed me the guitars he's made while he himself had been away. We talked on the phone while he was gone, but it still felt good the last week or so to come up to see me. We had catching up to do.

TJ and Kayla haven't changed much at all. I don't talk to them at all, so it felt really nice to go over to see them. Even after seven years, TJ and I are still friends. It kinda baffles me how we've managed, but I'm satisfied without an answer.

Today, I got to hang out with Nikki. It really felt good to be able to do that, again. I look back and I see that I put her through some crap my senior year. Why she didn't ever blow up on me back then and tell me to get lost, I'm not quite sure, but I'm certainly glad that it never went that way.

I got to hear a lot of what I've missed out here from her. A little bit of both good and bad, but no matter what the news was, I liked hearing that there's still a world outside of what I experience, and it's moving. Not to make it sound like I'm conceited and think that it wouldn't with me gone (I'm quite aware of my microscopic dent on Greenville), but the times they are a-changin'...and it makes me happy. I'll be back for the Summer, hopefully I'll be able to be apart of that change again.

I was told by someone that they were so satisfied with the moment they were in, that they wouldn't mind dying.

I'd like to say, having looked over things, that I agree.

Simon