My apologies for my absence, I’ve been pondering the meaning of life and well, you know how that goes.

Each morning as I arrive to work I take a bit of time to check blogs, emails, facebook and such and this morning was greeted by two sets of pictures. One set was the weekend wedding of two friends on the New Jersey shore the other of the recently completed renovation of the brownstone my roommate from college just completed (it looks amazing by the way, I’m more than slightly impressed). As I went through the sets of photos it occurred to me how different each of the lives of my friends are.

All through school and even up through college most of your peers are doing moderately similar things. The social circles vary depending on lifestyle choices but widely, most people aren’t living drastically different lives.

Cut to five years later.

Facebook tells me that people I knew in college are celebrating their fifth wedding anniversaries. Others have just given birth.

While some are taking trips down the aisle, others are taking trips to bloomingdales. It’s just interesting that at one time we all had so many things in common and now everyone seems to be at a different stage in their life.

It’s strange really how many different paths friends can take but then again, that’s what makes it interesting.

Speaking of interesting (or not) I’ve added a list of things I plan on doing to the site. Please feel free to make suggestions or add your own thoughts.

I’ve come up with 50 and challenged T to add 50 more. I’ll update them as we go.

Now back to my sushi and Antarctica trip.