Today is...

...my wife's birthday. Of all the things it would bring to one's mind, to me it brings to mind the randomness of life and how it places so many things in front of us along our journey. I constantly contemplate how the chaos and uncertainty that was my day to day never seems that way in retrospect. With the 20/20 that is hindsight, you get to see how one thing led to another thing and how that seemingly unorganized succession of things leading to things brought you to the point of where you currently are. You have no clue where it bring you in the future, but you ride it out any way. Here's an example:

During my college years I sat out the 1999 Spring semester. I was sleeping on the couch at my then best friend's mother's house and waiting tables to pay rent for said couch. After a few months of taking orders, serving food, and whoring for tips, I really saw what I didn't want to do for the rest of my life and decided to get my behind back into school. My friend and I both decided to apply and enroll into the University of Alabama at Birmingham. We had the grades, we had the jobs that could transfer us there, and we had an apartment picked out. Turns out, when tax time came around, his parent still claimed him as a dependent and killed his intended start-up money for moving. The funny thing is while our UAB intentions were smashed, we were both sending our information to the University of Southern Mississippi as well. That's where we both wound up. That is where I met my wife.