It is 9:55 PM on a Friday night as I start writing. I have a wedding to attend tomorrow at 3 PM. I tried getting ahold of Paul, the first person I met when I moved to Pennsylvania in the summer of 1999. We were supposed to hang out today, but he never responded so I'm spending this night packing boxes and reading Harry Potter. For the first time since I've had to seriously consider the fact that I'm only spending another month and a half in this house, it hit me just how much has transpired in this place. I was packing cds into a box when I realized that I had lived here more or less for five years. I've written and recorded my two latest albums in this house. Hell, I even lost my virginity here. This is the first big move that I've undertaken in almost 12 years.
That being said, I don't feel all that sad about leaving this house, or even this area. Memories don't fade just because you're no longer in the same place that you made them.
And what follows is simply a wishful-thinking kind of to-do list, for after I move.
1) Become a licensed driver
2) Quit smoking cigarettes
3) Drop about fifty pounds
4) Become a morning person
5) No more fried foods
6) Become more outgoing in social situations
7) Play some open mic nights in the Indianapolis area
8) Continue learning how to sing and play piano
9) Stay in touch with all of my Pennsylvania friends, as well as my Texas friends
10) Learn some responsibility
11) Save up four or five grand to take my parents and I on a fishing trip to Canada
12) Remember what it's like to be sober
13) Save up two grand of my own, and keep it that way
14) Meet the girl of my dreams
15) Continue writing songs
16) Don't go crazy
17) Catch some really awesome concerts
18) Finish the screenplays I've started
19) Successfully adapt myself to a new environment with all new people
20) Meditate regularly
21) Stay happy
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