Happy New Year!

The year 2006 has finally come and gone. For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying my earnest to try to come up with something a little more than interesting to post as my “end-of-the-year” wrap-up. I can truthfully say that I’m pretty much at a loss for words … profound ones at least. LOL. I know for a fact that in 2006, I probably fell into one of the deepest holes of depression I’ve probably ever encountered in my life. After quitting my job with the airline back in February, I distanced myself from my immediate family for quite a long time. Instead of trying to get on with life and move on, I pretty much wallowed in the emptiness of endless partying and drugs and the like. It got to the point where I’d go 3-4 days straight without sleeping trying to keep the party going and going until my body just couldn’t. I started falling for my friends really hard (more so than normal) which led to a lot of unnecessary heartbreak. Oh yeah, speaking of friends … I gained a lot and unfortunately lost a few because of the “party” so to speak. I waited until about my birthday in August to put everything into perspective and make the big jump from DC to LA to start to get things right. In hindsight, I’m still pretty amazed to see how I was able to survive for about 6 months or so without a full-time job and living on my own in a house with roommates. Of course during this time, I depleted all of my savings, spent my 401K, ran up credit cards, and ran down bank accounts. But hey, I did have a good time at least, right? Come to think of it, with all of the various things I snorted, smoked, drank, and ingested, I really didn’t feel like eating a whole lot and lost a ton of weight in the process! LOL.

Craziness, huh? It’s all good though. In all reality, I don’t really regret anything that I have done in my life this past year. Drugs definitely bring out many evils in people you know. You definitely learn how to tell the difference between who your REAL friends are from just mere acquaintances. This is just a statement of fact so please don’t imply that I’m passing judgment on anyone here. I’ve met many cool and interesting people and gained some great true friends in the process. I just definitely could have done other things that weren’t so “interesting” of course, but that’s just life. You really don’t live it until you LIVE IT! I suppose you can just take it all in as one big learning experience and then move on, right?

So it just turned 2007 and I’m glad to say that I’m still alive and breathing in Los Angeles! I’m thankful that I have family here to help me out with a place to live and a car to drive while I get myself back together. I don’t smoke cigarettes as much. I certainly haven’t touched any of those little party favors that are simply known as various single letters of the alphabet since I left DC. I do think about it now and then, but it’s no fun when you don’t know anyone to do with them with. A good thing for now I’m sure. New Year’s resolutions are a bit trite so I’ll just set some “guidelines” to live my life by this year. For starters, (1) I need to get healthier and start exercising and lose some weight in a good way. (2) I really need to find a good job that I REALLY like. (3) I also really want to move and eventually settle in San Francisco. How’s that for being vague yet to the point? LOL. Wish me luck so that 2007 will turn out to be a fantastic year for me!!!