People rally around the cause of “change” because everyone reaches that point in their life when they look around and wonder why they are doing the same thing they were doing yesterday. Humans are creatures of habit, and sometimes those habits mean we settle for monotony and boredom. When you realize that your life is predictable and bland, change is your solution. Once freed from that nonsense, you have your life back.

After my Civic was stolen this summer, I was forced to get a different car. I bought a Honda Element, and it’s been the most exciting thing for me. I know that it’s sound either vain or dorky to get really excited about your car, but I can’t deny it. It’s fun…I can haul anything…there’s enough room for friends…everything works inside…it’s reliable. I just want to wrap my arms around it and pick it up and give it a big hug. This little Element has made my life more exciting. It’s been a rewarding change in my life.

So I’m going to move houses in 2006. I like my house and my neighborhood, but I want something different. I am tired of the same concerns around the house and the neighborhood. I’m tired of hoping my street will clean up the way I want it to. I am ready to live on a street that already looks like I want it to look.

I’m ready to change my wardrobe. I’m wearing pretty much the same clothes I acquired in high school and college. I may have purchased new things here and there, but it’s pretty much the same wardrobe. The sweater vest that I am wearing now I bought as a sophomore in college. The patterned butterfly-collar shirt underneath I bought as a junior in high school. Wow. I guess that means I’ve worn this shirt for ten years!

The things that are unmovable in my life are the importance of my family, Candyce, and the fact that I am Catholic. Aside from that, I’m up for almost anything. Well, I’d like to live in Phoenix or San Diego. I’m not going to recklessly change everything and forget the things that I enjoy, but I’m ready for more new things.

I am ready to change what I do at work. I am tired of just MAINTAINING lifeteen.com all day everyday. I can train someone to do my job. Unfortunately, we can’t afford to hire someone to do my job, so I guess I’m just going to not do some things on the website.

I called Adam Robo yesterday afternoon and told him that we were going to change his job so that he had to spend half of his time just developing cool Flash things for the website. He’s a Flash guy as much as I’m a designer/dreamer. But in the six months since we hired him, we’ve been working around the clock just to update the site. But we still can’t keep the whole website fresh. So I’m willing to take parts of the site down so we can do what we do, and do it well.

I’m just so frustrated at work, I don’t even know where to start. That’s for another journal.