Well…..This is the starting day for the start of the big changes. It was just that, a big day. Not in the way you would think though. I went to bed with anticipatory thoughts about the what could be if it works out and I stick to my guns. Comedian Lewis Black says it best when he talks about the gambler on his or her way to the casino, their heads filled with infinte possibilities of all the positive outcomes to be and  15 minutes after sitting at the tables “dammit, the kids don`t really need to goto college`. The day started by me getting awakened by my girlfriend of 3 years Meagen. It was 9am……she, like me is a full time student and mondays for the both of us starts at 8:30am. She had awaken to the alarm at 6:15am as usual but this time decided she needed another 20 minutes of sleep. In her haze instead of setting the alarm for 20 minutes later, she adjusted the time and even if she had set the alarm it wouldn`t have gone off because she didn`t turn it on. Being late for or not going to class is common for me, i`m in my fifth year of post secondary education and having a to drive to classes an hour each way, i`ve learned to effectivly skip class. Today I had an accounting midterm though, so i had to be there in the afternoon.  However, Meagen on the other hand had a very important experimental lab at a medical facility an hour in the opposite direction that was classified as a school trip and the students were bused up(eye-roll, some of you can see where this is going). My sweet heart is not very fond of highway driving especially on 400 series highways(those are the equivilent to intersate highways in the states). I however have wrangled them to get to class for the last 5 years. So naturally, i`m stuck driving her to where she needs to go-great, another missed class.  So after getting her to her lab only 30 minutes late, i hop back on the highway and stay my 2 hour drive to class, about 15 minutes in i see a jeep arc accross the lanes and smash into the barrier about 200 meters ahead. The vehicles then swerved across the lanes again and into the ditch. I wanted to stop but I was about 200 meter past the accident and trying to dodge car parts on the run and i didnt do a good job. I ran of a nice shape peice of bumper beam…great for the tires and alignment-luckily the people in the jeep appeared ok from what I saw. I had assumed my tire would be flat within 5 minutes, i made it home and changed vehicles because the tire had deflated and it would be flat soon enough. Finally 3 hours of driving later i make it to class….oh ya… accounting mid term. I`m not sure how to articulate the whistling sound that the old WWII bombs made when being dropped, but that pretty much explains how I felt about the way I wrote the paper-bombed it! Now for another hour drive to bash my confidence in the subject. I make it home and finally have the chance to eat and I`m starving,  I manage to eat 2 meals within 2 hours and slam the gym with a decent Chest and tricep routine. It wasn`t great by any means but it could have been alot worse.

So if you`ve experienced a tough time getting started on a new habit…….I can say I understand