The Blog Turns 1!!!! Lyle Turns Older than 1!!!!!!

Okay, first of all, big shout-out to Leigh Ann's roommate whose name escapes me (Laura or Lauren, or Laurie or something).

I started this blog last October for therapy I guess. I was seriously depressed and on the verge having a breakdown. I could look at my life from a distance and kind of shake my head and say "Wow, that's pathetic." And it was. I was living with my parents, didn't have a job, couldn't get any women, wasn't exactly sure what to do with my life, couldn't get into shape, and woke up every day saying "Why am I on planet earth?"

BUT WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES!!!! I don't live with my parents anymore. Well, basically everything else is the same. Baby steps. Anyway.

The blog originally started because I had just had a birthday and was feeling lower than a Delta high school's ACT scores. And tomorrow I have another birthday. I won't say how old I'll be because I stopped paying attention when I started getting closer to 30 than 20.

So I started thinking...am I really all that different than I was 10 years ago? What about 15 years ago? 20 years?

THINGS I ENJOYED DOING 10 YEARS AGO THAT I ENJOY TODAY:
-going to the movies
-playing basketball
-flirting with 18-old-girls
-eating junk food
-wearing sneakers
-wearing Hawaiian shirts
-listening to Jimmy Buffett
-riding around Grenada Lake jamming out to Blues Traveller's "Four," sporting my coolest "Rough Hewn" shirt, making plans to see Happy Gilmore at the movies, while wondering if this whole "internet" thing was just a fad.

OK, the last one I don't enjoy anymore.

THINGS I ENJOYED 15 YEARS AGO THAT I ENJOY TODAY:
-going to the movies
-playing basketball
-looking at 18-year-old girls
-eating junk food
-wearing sneakers
-telling dirty jokes
-telling dirty jokes at inappropriate times
-telling dirty jokes to inappropriate people
-watching the Simpsons
-wearing my football jersey to school on gamedays while making my mom switch the radio station so I can hear "Janey's Got a Gun" and wondering if girls found guys who weighed 98 pounds attactive

Made that last one up again...I don't do that stuff anymore and I now weigh slightly more than twice that much.

THINGS I DID 20 YEARS AGO THAT I STILL ENJOY TODAY:
-playing on Slip n' Slides
-playing football video games
-wondering why girls are so stupid and confusing
-idolizing Larry Bird
-wondering why the crap David Lee Roth left Van Halen
-wearing a little mini-mullet

Again, just kidding on the last one. No mullet anymore...one of my friends says I have a "Front-Mullet" now though.

So now I'm forced to look at myself and ask "Will I ever be a grownup?" Will I ever look at myself in the mirror and think "Before me stands an adult?" God forbid that ever happens.

Mortgage. Lyle jr. SUV payment. Cholesterol. High School Reunion. These are all words that scare the crap out of me.

I want to be Peter Pan.

"After changes upon changes we are more or less the same, after changes we are more or less the same." - Paul Simon