Just a Fifth...

My goodness, a whole lot has changed since I last posted anything on this blog! And honestly, it's not because I've forgotten about it, but more, "where do I begin?" or "I haven't really got time for this right now..." or "has my life really been that interesting lately to want to blog about it?"

So, the how to go about getting back into this? Perhaps list five some things that have changed since five years ago:

1. My first house. A down-payment, a mortgage, furniture, yard work, digging out of the garage on my own during a blizzard (all right, only 2 inches had started to accumulate on the driveway, but hey, this is Oklahoma!), the whole gambit. I love my house, and I love being on my own and having to be responsible for all of this, but occasionally there are moments when I start to wish I wasn't doing all of this on my own. Especially when I need to do laundry and mow the lawn and manage to put together a somewhat healthy meal instead of running out to Chick-fil-a and suddenly remembering that today's a Sunday. Many thanks must go to my dad, who somehow doesn't seem to mind coming over and working for food, and to mom for letting him.

2. Five years seniority. Yay! And then, I suddenly think "How in the world has time moved by so quickly that I've already been out of college and working at the same company now for five years?" Then again, that's nothing when compared to the tenure some of my coworkers have... 10, 15, 25,... 33... yep, barely a "fifth" of the time they've spent in this industry. I feel so young! What in the world am I doing at this place, thinking I'm smart enough to handle half of the work they're giving me, this young whipper-snapper? "Yup, I got it, no problem!"

3. New and old things to geek out about. "Lemme explain... No, there is too much. Lemme sum up." And bombard this post with a collection of weblinks:
Geek Out Podcast
Muppets!
Harry Potter
More Potter?
Doctor Who
Smallville
Chuck

4.Why did I give myself the goal of typing up five of these? I'm not really sure how to begin to describe much else, because I sort of feel I'm lacking the luxury of not having been absent from my own life over the past five years. There's likely been a whole lot of gradual changes... growth, maturity, physically, mentally, spiritually,... that I'm just not aware of in myself because I don't have an accurate image of where I was with all of those things five years ago... Do I feel like I've learned something more today than I did yesterday, though? Yes. But it feels like an impossible thing to label or categorize. Especially when it seems like there's so much to tell, or still more to go out and DO.

Guess I better get back out there, then. One for the road, please...
Movin' Right Along