Routines Are Hard to Break, Easy to Establish

It took about a week for me to rediscover the patter of my daily life here at home.  School every morning, homework, running, enjoying the sunshine outside.  Church on Sunday.  I've decided that time passes far too quickly.  Each day ends before I've done everything I'd wanted to, every day something gets moved to the back burner because I simply don't have enough hours of daylight to get them all done.  The month of April has come and gone.  I've visited with a grandmother, welcomed a good friend to share my southern paradise for a week, gotten caught up on schoolwork (more or less), helped the family run smoothly while my mom took a week off with a few of her own friends.  Just yesterday I turned eighteen years old, just two days after getting my first speeding ticket.  Yes, time passes indifferently, steadily, inexorably.  I still haven't posted any pictures to facebook.  I don't know why.  It just seems... well, too late now.  I suppose I still ought to, but it just hasn't happened yet.  Maybe I'll get to it tomorrow.  Maybe not.  Ah, but the future.  Now that is exciting.  Graduation, summer, college.  I can't wait to finally be off for Calvin!  But before I get ahead of myself, it is important that I stop to remember that today can be just as much as an adventure as last month, as next month, as next year.  I live in the present; it's time I enjoyed it!  Just two more weeks and two AP tests between me and summer!  Ah, the sweet smell of freedom...