Today is the first day of the rest of your life...

March 17th is my 31st Birthday...I'll be 31.

Unless my calculations are incorrect, I have been alive for 977,616,000 seconds as of the exact second before I was born 31 years ago.

And now I sit and wonder...Have I made ever second count? Have I forfeited an even better life than I have now, simply because I took time for granted? Would I be more mature; more wealthy; more affluent; more desriable; would I simply be more?

A Day in the Life of Joel Sopp

7:00 am - Alarm goes off.

7:13 am - Shelley yells at me from the shower to get out of bed...lol

7:30 am - Feeding the boys some b'fast.

7:34 am - Make some coffee.

7:45 am - Sit down with my wife Shelley and have a coffee, watch some News.

8:09 am - Shelley starts the truck to warm it up...Man I love Winter !

8:23 am - Get Braiden and Logan ready for the trip to school.

8:30 am - Drop Braiden off with his lil girlfriend and her Dad to walk to school.

8:43 am - Drop Shelley off at work.

9:00 am - Home again with Logan.

9:30 am - Logan usually lays down for a nap.

9:36 am - I got outside in the cold and have a cigarette. Yes, I know it's a disgusting habit which I hate because I am addicted, and Shelley doesn't like to kiss me when I STINK, but I digress.

9:45 am - Sit down on the puter to read e-mails and check out some kewl "Fwd:'s"

10:30 am - Turn on the TV and see if anything is on. If not, I turn on the XBox and play HALO 2 for about 60 minutes.

11:30 am - Go out for another cigarette.

11:50 am - Realize Braiden is done school for the day at 11:45 am and I am in the middle of a game and I toss the controller across the room and race for the truck.

11:53 pm - Get Braiden from school (Yes, I know I shouldn't speed in a School Zone).

12:00 pm - Realize I left Logan napping in his room, when I ran out to get Braiden.

12:01 pm - Listen to Braiden give me heck for playing XBox without him...

12:30 pm - Lunch is served.

1:45 pm - Get the Boys ready to go to Auntie Kristin's House to get babysat.

2:13 pm - Finally get out of the door, as it seems time speeds up when I have to go to work.

2:25 pm - Sneak another cigarette. (Shelley will kill me if she reads this. I don't think she realizes how much I really do smoke in a day)

2:30 pm - Stroll into work and log in to my workstation or "Pod"

4:30 pm - 1st 15 minute Break - Another cigarette.

4:40 pm - Play a quick game of Texas Hold 'Em Poker for 5 minutes.(FYI - You can lose a lot of money in 5 minutes...D'oh!)

6:30 pm - Lunch or Supper or Whatever you wanna call it.

6:45 pm - Yet another cigarette.

6:50 pm - Play a quick game of Texas Hold 'Em Poker for 10 minutes.(FYI - You can lose even more money in 10 minutes...D'oh! D'oh!)

9:00 pm - FINALLY MY 2ND BREAK! and a cigarette.

10:30 pm - Done like dinner.

10:47 pm - Get home, get in my PJ's(basically a T-Shirt and a pair of Shorts)

10:51 pm - Head downstairs to talk to Shelley, who is sometimes already asleep, talk for about 10 minutes and then...

11:00 pm - Shelley heads to bed and I...

11:01 pm - Sit down on the puter to read e-mails and check out some kewl "Fwd:'s"
11:15 pm - Turn on the TV and see if anything is on. If not, I turn on the XBox and play HALO 2 for about 2 hours.

1:07 am - I crawl into bed exhausted.

7:00 am - Alarm goes off.
7:13 am - Shelley yells at me from the shower to get out of bed...lol

This occurs from Monday to Friday...EVERY WEEK!

Now it's your turn.

Have I wasted my life?

Could I be doing so much more with my life?

Do I have time to do so much more with my life?

Think about your own day...Can you spare a minute ? ? ?

Until Next Time I Remain,

Joel Sopp