Life is Good.

It hit me today, how lucky I really am. I'm listening to my roommate and other friend drone on about their jobs, how they seem to put in long, hard hours without seeing tremendous financial reward (granted, they each make a lot more than I do, and I know will be super successful someday) but the point is the here and now: I don't stress TOO much about my job, have a hell of a time, and make decent money. My roommate was actually wondering where the last 5 months of his life went because he's been working so much. I'm happy to say that isn't the case for me.

I pitch ideas at work for marketing campaigns, creative, "catchy" slogans and promotions that my bosses and our clients seem to like. It's a small company so I'm able to throw things out and I feel very "free" as opposed to chained down by some "corporate machine" larger than I. Love my bosses. Love my co-worker. The hours are reasonable, the pay is great - especially when I expense things. I also am able to make commissions. Socially, sure, I could be with someone. But I'm not. And I'm happy. While washing the dishes today, I thought, "Joey, be happy in this moment that you are truly single and free, because it won't be like this forever," and I also kept thinking about the minute I start to date someone, how I'll have to fork over mad cash to buy her things, and that's not appealing to me. Of course, for the right one it's okay--but for all the others, not so much.

How do we ever know who "the one" is? My very good friend recently broke off an engagement and ended a 9 year relationship. That couple was my "go-to" couple for love, happiness, and monogamy. Oh well. My friend is handling the issue very maturely.

The dude in my elevator last week said, "Man, I was watching this documentary where they take these little baby pigs and bash them into walls to kill them. Really disturbed me!" It would disturb me, too - cruelty to animals is something I don't like to think about and/or see. I was refreshed by the very straight way he told it; didn't preface it or follow it up with anything. It was genuine thought, something that was irking him and he just wanted to tell it to some other human being. I really enjoyed that. Not the part about the pigs, of course. You get the point.

My roommate may move to Denver. He is excited about it; I know this from his subtle mentions of it. He's not an outwardly emotional person, rather sort of an awkward person when situations get really emotional. I wonder how it will be when we say our goodbyes - truthfully, though, I love the kid and he's been an amazingly wonderful roommate. I will miss him. I know he'll miss me, too, and New York, and his family, but I wonder what's really going through his mind. He wouldn't be the one to say, "You know, man, I'm really gonna miss it here, kind of worried." He's just bring up 'Denver' every now and then as his way of saying, "I'm moving there, you fill in the blanks" Naturally, I did (or attempted to) fill in the blanks.

Bence is expecting me for the wedding in Hungary - I am also supposedly singing. I can't wait. Just one more reason that I life is just so amazing; I have a good friend, probably one of my best friends, actually (even though we've hung out for an accumulated 2 weeks in our lives) who lives over there. I cherish our friendship; I cherish all of my friendships, whether you're over an ocean, right here in this great city, or in the heart of it all.