I am glad to have made it through the holidays. Sometimes this time of year that we just passed through feels like a good party. Lots of fun while your in the middle of it but a lot to clean up afterward. That's where I am right now. Trying to find a routine and put things back in place. Case in point: I got a ticket before the holiday for not wearing my seatbelt, forgot to pay it, got a suspended license, and spent last wednesday afternoon and the earliest part of this morning at the D.M.V. getting it all straightened out. 

The D.M.V. is mostly filled with no fun interspersed with line waiting. If there is a silver lining to the D.M.V. it's standing around sorts of people you otherwise never would. This morning there was a construction worker (who was not working today but mentioned several times that he was working tomorrow) a painter (who was a seriously loud talker and what he lacked in teeth he made up in hair) and a short guy who counseled he friend on the phone that Vegas was best for divorce (whatever that means). 

I know that the world takes all sorts of people, but it's nice to be reminded. I mean I can get so rapped up in what's going on with me that I lose perspective. When I realize how life could be going, I am glad for mine. God has been at work all around me this past year, I have to believe he will be in this next as well.