The Circus is Next Door!

So I wake up today and what do I see through my patio screens...The Circus [Cole Bros. Circus]. That's right! Literally in my backyard, in The Oaks Mall Parking lot, the circus tents are being pitched.

I don't have to say how awesome this is. To have the circus in your backyard has to be every kid growing up ultimate fantasy. [well either having the circus in your backyard or being able to fly...it was usually one of the two].

So while at work today [for those that don't know I live in the same apartment complex where I work...so it makes my morning commute literally a breeze], we power up the golf cart and drive around the perimeter of the circus and try to see some of the animals.

The only one we were able to see where the elephants [picture right]. We think there might be horses, but we couldn't see them.

I have to say, looking into the eyes of an elephant [especially one that is chained up] is a bit heart-wrenching. Even though the seem at ease, tossing bits of hay on their back, their eyes almost say they are just really really sad.

Well I should get back to work, luckily today is one of those days where it is gloomy outside and traffic coming into the office is at a standstill.

until next time,

My Birthday

"Twenty-seven years ago, in the middle of a cold, dark and dreay night in Newark, NJ. A man was born...no, no a legend was born. And when he was born, it was said he would go on to do sort-of Great things!~Greg"

That is right today is my birthday and I pretty much (favorite catch word of mines) got what I wanted. Peace and quiet and a time to rest up and play with my sister's dog (I say this because Bubba-the dog doesn't pay attention to me when she is in the room) all day today. I didn't have to worry about work, answering phones, doing copies, fax or listening to tenants bitch/complain about something not working right. I called today the Ying of my birthday celebration, because tomorrow night will be the Yang. I have sushi, drinks, dancing and hopefully some macking (I think that what the kids these days are calling it) of the ladies who are out tomorrow night.

Being twenty-seven really feels weird. Not in the sense that I woke up this morning and screamed at the horror of being another day older (I liked Dexter's reasoning behind birthday celebrations..."celebrating another year of being alive."), but that I truly don't feel any bit of the slightest different that when I turned 18. Actually me at twenty-seven compared to me at seventeen is like night and day. First off I am 50-lbs lighter, and living a more healthier lifestyle. Only thing twenty-seven year old Greg envies about seventeen year old Greg...seventeen year old Greg had a girlfriend. But that is a problem that can quickly be fixed...usually with a bottle of rum/vodka.

Well I'm going to get going, go back to my night of relaxing, and reading. Plus got to rest up for tomorrow, because who know what will happen.

Change Is Coming

For today's entry, I must admit I kind of wrestled with the thought of how to present this blog entry. As you may have figured out I am not the expert when it comes to blogging (even though more and more of them pop up everyday). First I thought about having the title of each of my entries be like Chapter numbers. For example having this entry go like: Chapter 1: Change is Coming. However, after thinking about it some more, I soon thought that if I blog regularly than my chapters might be up in the thousands. (Chapter 1125, doesn't seem pleasant).

So I settled with having my entries (not all of them mind you) have a quote that kind of reflects what I am trying to get through in the blog entry.

So today's quote has to deal with Change. Odd that I would write about change since for a good part of my life I feared it. Growing up change was the norm. There was a time I felt that my family were a bunch of nomads, moving from one place to another. And I was use to that, once I get use to the local scenery, I have a feeling so deep inside that screams out, "Time to pack up and get the F out of here!" So what's changing? Don't want to say right now (even at this age I still believe in jinxes), but if anything it has to do will all facet of my life: personal, relationship, education, and financial. Or I could be total BS'ing right now just to throw everyone off what the real news is.

Well when I get the news I'll make sure to share it.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay ~ Simone de Beauvoir