"This is a new year, for love, love in the future......" - John Legend

Today marks the first day of 2014. As usual, I bring each year to a close in church only this year I was in Brooklyn and not Philadelphia. As I made the 20 mile commute to my new home in Queens, I thought to myself, why sleep when I could blog? 2013 ended too quickly for me to reminisce the various happenings in my life over the year. What better way to document it and gauge progress in 2014 than this entry? In 2013 I maintained a healthy dosage of ups and downs:

• I swore I was starting in the NYPD academy in January 2013 only to be wait listed for July. That was a serious bummer as I was looking for it to relieve me of my dead-end, pennies-paying job at the Media Courthouse. Not long after I contemplated becoming a pizza delivery man to make ends meet but The Lord came through with the consulting opportunity at JP Morgan. Starting there brought an end to my retails days at Banana Republic. 7 years off and on. That's a long time! 
• I managed to grow a full beard not once but twice in 2013! I also made the switch from glasses to contacts, hopefully I can shed the "Arthur" moniker lol. I was blessed with the chance to walk in my twin's wedding in the Dominican Republic. That was an AWESOME trip! Some time after that I decided to go bald, one of the best decisions of my life apart from the contacts. 
• And then with 2-3 weeks left of the year, I made the leap to NYC. 

Those were the major events but sprawled throughout the year were disappointments like failed possible romances (oxymoron) and losing close friends and severing ties with mere acquaintances. What an interesting year. On the scoreboard of life I'm failing miserably at putting any points up as God is beating me terribly with all the points. I look forward to the ups and downs that 2014 will surely bring. I've tightened my laces and heading back to the court for the next game of pick up with God. 

-Dave aka General Maximus