Lost In This Moment

After many moons, my abandoned blog is abandoned no longer...and just in time for my 2007 year in review! 2007 was just as busy as it was memorable, barely finding anytime for rest between work and play.

So what was my most memorable moment of 2007? I would say that being in Dallas sitting in an outdoor hotel hot tub and watching my hair freeze in the middle of February was pretty memorable. So was going to WrestleMania 23 at Ford Field in Detroit and experiencing the greatest spectacle in sports entertainment with 80,102 other people. I’d also say that traveling down to Memphis and finding out what real barbecue tastes like was memorable. And I’ll never forget that July weekend in Wisconsin, being stuck behind a barricade with my friend Eric and asking him to be one of my groomsmen as a barrage of fast moving paintballs whirred all around us.

Closer to home, 2007 marked the addition of my two fuzzy cats, Domino earlier in the year and Turtle towards the end. I also ran my first official race, the Shamrock Shuffle. At work, I was the human band-aid and proved to myself and hopefully to others that I’m just as versatile and flexible as I am dependable and reliable.

These are all memorable moments, but when I look back at 2007, there’s one memory that sticks out just a little more than the others – and it’s NOT my wedding. Granted, my wedding was truly memorable and is definitely my biggest moment of 2007, but when I think of my most memorable moment, I don’t think of the day of the wedding; I think of the day after.

My most memorable moment of 2007 was the effort everyone gave in helping my friend Santy get to where he needed to be in order to catch his flight back home. I know that it probably wasn’t a big deal to everyone involved, but it was a big deal to me. That one moment reflected what Cathy and my wedding was all about – the coming together of two families - friends, relatives and strangers alike - as one. A day after doing a unity sand ceremony, it was good a feeling seeing what was said being applied. People on Cathy’s side and people on my side came together to help Santy in the unexpected rut he was in, not as friends, relatives or strangers, but as one united family.

Happy New Year!