Two Years Ago Today...

(1) I was in an unhappy marriage to a woman I'd lived with for eight years and I didn't realize it.

(2) I had a serious multiple substance abuse problem and didn't admit it.

(3) I went day after day to one of the shittiest day jobs I've ever had, was less than two weeks away from getting fired, and on my sixth week of a management campaign to make my life a living hell so I would quit instead. Funny, after I lost the job did my wife start making me realize that (1) was true.

(4) I was a paid house emcee at a quaint little comedy club in Northern Virginia and used stand-up comedy as an escape from the much larger problems in my life.

(5) I spent large amounts of money that I didn't have on things that I didn't need.

(6) I didn't believe that I could really do anything with my life.

(7) I hated myself and I wanted to die.

(8) I wanted someone to save me, and I wasn't going to ask for help.

(9) I didn't know what progress meant.

(10) I never thought I could be where I am today.

Funny what can happen in two years.

That's all I got for today, folks.