what a year...

Well I guess I will start off by saying that I have been becoming super jealous of everyone that has cool blogs that I read all the the time so i decided with the New Year should come a new place for me to write my thought, which all too often will not make sense.

It is New Year's day and I had work from 11-6 which stunk. My New Year's Eve was not even close to as memorable as the one I had last year in Times Square but it was nice to be with Colby on New Years. I was a little sad during the evening though because for the last couple of years I have always spent New Year's Eve with my closest friends. This year, all of my friends had different plans and no one could really set on anything which meant I would not be seeing a lot of the people that I have grown close to this year.

Speaking of this year, it has been crazy. I am never one for going back and reflecting on a year, but this one has been pretty special for me. I have met so many people and experienced so much that a couple of years ago, I thought would never happen.

I thought of the people right now that I consider my friends and tried to think of one year ago when I did not know these people and it was hard to imagine (this includes people I knew but never REALLY knew). I don't want to name people because I think that is lame and I will most likely forget someone but I think those people can think back and think the same.

Another thing that progressed beyond where I ever expected is my band. I am so proud of what we have done, what we are doing, and who we are becoming. This year alone we have played with Brand New, toured for 3 weeks over the summer, and released a brand new EP that has been well received by our fans and online music communities. We are starting to play every weekend out of state and it just feels awesome. A long time ago when I started my first, shitty, dead end band, all i wanted to do was be in a band that was touring and finally i found the right people to do it with and its happening. We love playing the music we play and have fun every chance we get to play it. My expectations for the band keep rising and I don't think thats a bad thing although i guess sometimes its a flaw that i can work on in the new year. I always think we could be better, do better, sound better, look better. I push myself a lot to try and reach those goals and its feels great to reach them. I don't want to make predictions for where our band will be one year from now, but I know we will work as hard as we can to get as far as we can. THis year will be a little scary for me when I commit to the band full time instead of getting a job but I'm ready for it!

The future of this blog....
I'm sorry I typed so much in this blog and it got soo reflectional and crap. This will be kinda just an outlet for the stories I will have from our weekend trips and shows and also my job as a STUDENT TEACHER (AHHHH!). and i guess any stupid shit that i find funnny.

super...
mike