A look in the mirror

I can't help but think back to a year or two ago and how miserable and lonely i was. I recall the desperateness i once felt for something that felt real and felt alive. I am sooooo much happier now than i was then. Lying awake, alone in bed, waiting. Sitting on the edge of my bed staring at the mirror and wondering what had happened. Pretending that things didn't bother me when they really did. I have realized that I deserved much more than that, and it helps me to remember that now that things have gotten better.

My Life List

I have…
• Contracted Lyme’s disease
• Learned the guitar
• Played and toured with a band
• Went to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador
• Hiked in the Grand Canyon
• Sky dived
• White water rafted
• Learned to rock climb
• Wrote a song for a girl
• Performed on MTV with my band
• Ran a marathon
• Gave a speech in front of 400 people
• Got a motorcycle
• Graduated from College
• Helped Elect a President
• Zip lined across a canyon
• Went Caving
• Roadied for Dashboard Confessional
• Wrote a speech that an “Advisor to the President” gave
• Worked at the ACLU
• Learned to shoot a gun
• Finished my first year of law school successfully
• Shared a guitar tech with Ozzy’s guitarist
• Volunteered at a homeless shelter
• Drove a boat
• Visited a rain forest
• Worked in the White House
• Played Starting Quarterback for a football team
• Trained a dog
• Recorded a CD
• Had my car stolen and set on fire with all my possessions in it
• Went to Cancun
• Survived a motorcycle crash
• Went to Puerto Rico
• Went on a cruise
• Went to Disney World
• Made a website
• See the National Symphony
• Worked to help Bonobos
• Went to 30+ Pearl Jam concerts
• Made friends through social networking
• Drove a Mustang 100mph through the desert



I will…
• Climb Mt. Everest
• Raft the Colorado River and hike the Grand Canyon
• Fall in love
• Open a nonprofit to benefit education for low income children
• Learn to fly a small plane
• Climb Mt McKinley
• Record an acoustic album
• Live on my own
• Drive cross country (on motorcycle?)
• Run a Triathlon
• Learn to Salsa Dance
• Visit Australia and New Zealand
• Buy a Harley Davidson

A new world

I feel like I've been here before... except it's all Deja Vu.

So I took another 6 month Hiatus from blogging, and a lot has happened in between.

I now have a job in Silver Spring, MD. I really like it. I help patients with a rare disease fund their support group meetings. It is a very satisfying job, especially when I talk to the patients, and they seem very grateful for what we do.

I met a girl. She doesn't live here, but hopefully will soon. For the first time in a long time I am willing to wait for something. I suppose that means that I finally think that I've found something worth waiting for.

I have decided to climb Mt. Rainier this spring. I will be signing up for the trip in the next few weeks when I get the money.

I think I'm going to post my new life to do list soon.

That is all.

Another long while

Things i have done since November:

• Helped with the Inauguration
  
• saw my new president get sworn in
• met POTUS and FLOTUS in the Blue room of the WH
• worked a shitty coffee job for a month
• Interned at the WH
• stopped interning at the WH
• Drank alot
• met a lot of cool DC'ers and others who were visiting DC
• Found myself a little more