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Lately I’ve noticed that I’ve become more domesticated. More content just to hang out and relax with my wife and not do much. I know that’s not what we really want. We want to get out there and experience life and have fun and do stuff. That goes beyond just clubbing every once in a while, there are trips to take and exotic destinations that need to be seen. However, we do have a baby on the way in less than 5 months. Doesn’t leave much time to live the high life now, does it?

Even though we are going to have a family and a little girl joining us, I don’t think that means the end (haven’t even started) of our high paced social life. I know that there will be ways for us to squeeze in fun and maybe we can even make room for a lot of fun. Hopefully my wife’s sister will be able to help us out with the babysitting and enabling us to have free time. Her sister has wanted to move in with us for a while, and we should have a new place within a month that will have the extra room.

Now I have to admit to myself that as I grow older, I am more inclined to starting the famous man’s “mid-life crisis.” Most of my life I’ve always felt older then I was and now I’m beginning to feel just plain old. I’m starting to get out of shape and I’m watching so many of my friends have fabulous fun times involving travel and socializing. My wife and I deserve that as well and I want to be able to provide it.

Just a few years ago I was still working in the club scene and having a blast, albeit I was barely doing anything. I was more of a monument you could say, someone who was just always there that you can depend on seeing. The position was called promoter and I helped out with security and PR, but most of the time it felt like I was just there to have fun. Which basically I was, the job was to have fun and make the people you met want to join you, have fun, and spend money. It was a great gig.

Of course being married now it’s not exactly kosher to always be at the club, unless of course your spouse happens to have been a club head too. =) I’m not complaining, it’s just that I’ve always wanted to be involved in the entertainment industry on some level. I like attention and I like being involved with large crowds, whether it be speaking, performing in some way (chugging down beers and shots was my idea of performing), or writing and producing. I don’t know what direction I really want to be in, but I want to be involved in it somehow. When I was younger my talents were pretty diversified so I had trouble focusing on a path and I sort of drifted away from all of those things. The club promoting sort of put me back into it for a while and it was fun.

That’s part of the reason for wanting to strike out on my own financially, well business wise. I want to call the shots. I want to decide what I make and when I make it, doesn’t matter what I’m doing as long as it’s going to improve the income, situation, and happiness of my family and I. It’s the American dream ya know? Hell, it’s a worldwide dream to be completely your own person, beholden to no one and nothing. So it doesn’t’ really matter that for now I’m sort of home bound, as long as I keep in mind that it’d be good and it’s needed, for my wife and I to get out and do stuff more often. So don’t worry honey I’m thinking of you and we’ll be taking those awesome trips soon.