Ten years ago: I was 18, finished with high school, working a warehouse job, getting ready to start college (for all the wrong reasons), and saying goodbye to my first love as she was leaving for school in Vermont.

Five years ago: I was 23, and close to the end of one of the darker times in my life. I had made some pretty stupid mistakes in regards to matters of the heart and matters of employment, and hadn’t yet picked myself up out of the hole I had dug. That was later that winter.

Yesterday: Worked, ran a couple of errands, hung out with Nan, cooked dinner, chatted, watched some tv, relaxed. Been a while since I had an evening like that.

Today: Working, a much deserved celebratory dinner, then an evening out with some of the boys.

Tomorrow: Possibly flea bombing the apartment (fun fun fun) and then The Party. I just wish it could be like last year’s.

Five snacks I enjoy: Strawberries, Pocky, hummus, Publix seafood cheese spread, honey roasted peanuts

Five bands I know the lyrics of MOST of their songs: U2, The Cure, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Tori Amos, and The Beasty Boys.

Five things I would do with 100,000,000: pay off all my debts, take a two year long trip around the world, make sure the people that I care about could get the things they want, pay for school, invest it so that I’d never have work again (unless I wanted to).

Five locations I'd like to run away to: Japan, Ireland, Cancun, Chattanooga, and anywhere within sight of the Pacific Ocean.

Five things I like doing: Talking to people, listening to people, driving, gaming, reading.

Five things I wish I could wear: leather pants, a traditional kilt in my family’s tartan, a full length leather trench coat, tights, my very own straight jacket.

Five TV shows I like: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate, Law & Order, Battlestar Galactica, Myth Busters.

Five Movies I like: Bubba HoTep, Casablanca, Big Trouble in Little China, Hero, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Five famous people I'd like to meet: Harry Houdini, Stephen Hawking, Peter Gabriel, Alan Turing, P. T. Barnum

Five biggest joys at the moment: relaxing evenings at home, home cooked meals, my hopes, my dreams, and my firends

Five favorite toys: The Internet, Pump It Up, boffer weapons, cd burner, my truck.