nine.

so, new year.
what a strange holiday. i don't know, something about it just kind of weirds me out. we put all this stock on the simple changing of days. i learned this year that the catholic church's liturgical calander actually begins at the beginning of lent. so our "new year" as catholics is rung in with the preparation for christ's birth. i know a man who talks about, as christians, changing the entire way we view the world - what holidays are about, which ones we actively celebrate and which ones we don't. like how our new year should be christmas, and our independence day should be easter. learning more about the feast days of the saints and other important events in our church history, why they are so significant and celebrating them for what they are. i guess it wouldn't give you as many excuses to get together with friends and family...or maybe it would. but fireworks on easter would be pretty wild.

my one and only new year's resolution is to learn more about the character of god. i'm excited about that.

i really need a job. i'm trusting in god about what the heck he wants to do with my life, because i basically have literally, absolutely no direction whatsoever. everything's pretty much dissolved and i'm as open as ever and just waiting on him to show me the way. he's good like that and he'll lead me. he always does.

until then, i'm broke as a joke.