Vacation

Wow, so I've been hanging out at my in-laws for about a week now. It's madness. I like my in-laws almost as much as my own family (which is great, right?). But it's funny how different spending time with them is. For starters, I'm the 4th of 5 in my family, right at the end, then there's the fact that Kamis is 5 years younger (she's my teenage bride :-). What it all means is that Kamis and all her syblings are younger than all my syblings. So it's like I've gone from being one of the little kids to being one of the big kids. I'm reliving childhood through them. Everything's smaller and sleeker these days. Games (my favorite pasttime) are all cooler and more intricate. Every card game has its own special deck, not just go fish and old maid. Computers and the internet are part of pop culture, not special things that I wish I had more of.

Anyway, concerning Christmas, it was awesome. Tons of fun to see the little ones get cool stuff. I do rather miss my family. I've been out of town the whole time my own family has been in town. That's been kind of a bummer since I miss them. We're all grown up and gone our seperate ways, so seeing my syblings is kind of a big deal. Of course, when we made the decision we were weighing in balance the fact that Kamis has been desperate to see her family for a long time, she's a lot closer to home than I am. I've had half a dozen years to get used to being away, she didn't even get to spend last summer at home (it was her first away from it) because we were engaged and trying to attend school and work in Provo. So we came here.

The New Year is coming up. I'm going to have to think about resolutions. It'll be a big year for me. I'll be starting graduate school in Civil Engineering. There are a lot of unknowns. I still don't know what the next move is after graduate school. I don't know what kind of jobs I should be working at in the mean time. I've got a great job already, but I feel like I need to get another good part time job in my field to shore up what I'm learning. I guess I'll just keep working at things. Life has always worked out snarls like that before, and by Life I mean God.