In the spirit of the recent holiday that took place, Thanksgiving, I felt this would be a great time to start my blog. I feel this is a great way for me to express my thoughts and feelings about my every day experiences, that didn't involve bugging everyone on Facebook. So what I decided to do is to explain to everyone what I am thankful for at this time of year, my friends and family. Here are some people that really make me thankful:
I have my father Peter, also known as "Pete" "Big Man" "Pops" or my favorite "Dad". He is the one who raised me to keep a level head and to always listen to my teachers, coaches, and my mom. He has been the one who has made sure to keep me in line and stay humble and appreciative about what I have in life and to appreciate the things around me and to not focus too much on what I don't' have and to focus on what I have at the time. He has been to every soccer game, basketball game, baseball game, football game, ANY GAME. He has been the dad that almost any kid could hope for (except for maybe Kobe, that'd be pretty cool). I never really TOTALLY appreciated what he did for me until last spring when I had a major school crisis (we won't go into details), and he dropped what he was doing at work, ran home, packed a bag of clothes, and drove 6 and a half hours out to Tucson, Arizona just to help me with what I was going through. I am pretty sure there aren't many kids, children or adults that can say that family member did something for them like what my dad did. He shows love when I need love, he shows me tough love when I deserve it, but most importantly he shows the care and desire to want to help me in whatever it is that I do.
Then there is my sister Katie. She's known around town as "Katie Greenthal". Thats it, she isn't known as just "Katie", or "Adam's Sister", but strictly "Katie Greenthal". It's safe to say that she's numero uno when it comes to the Greenthal Children chart. I mean even my grandpa admitted that she's holding the crown as the number one Greenthal Cousin in the family. But who is to argue that? 3.5 GPA all through high school? Queen of the Show Choir, oh wait, I mean..... SOUND FX. Now an official sorority senior at Boston University and just has plan to do big things in the near future. My sister is one for the record books. She knows a lot about me, sometimes more than she cares to know, but thats because she can handle my life probably better than I can. She's as supportive as a sister could possibly get, and then more. However, she isn't the type of sister that is going to try to be a sweet sister who says I'm right in every argument I share with her, she's the type that will give me a reality check if I'm wrong and straighten me out. She has a sort of Iron Fist when it comes to being a supportive sister. Most of the time I don't really appreciate it when she puts me in my place, most of the time because I want her to just agree with me and be done with it. But what kind of person would I be if I went through life thinking that I was right in every argument I was in without actually listening to other peoples opinions? Definitely not the number 3 Greenthal Cousin on the Cousin Chart. AY YO!
The final piece to the puzzle is my mom. She is the one who actually inspired me to start this blog because she has one herself, that has blossomed into the hot topic among the Real Housewives of Los Alamitos (emptyhousefullmind.com). She writes about being an emptynester, which means parents who are living without their children because they are finally gone. She has really made blogging a big part in her life and she says its a great way to voice your thoughts and feelings in a safe way. My mom is my rock. She is the one who held my hand when I crossed the street when I was younger. She packed my lunches, drove me to school, picked me up, took me to practice, picked me up from practice, made dinner, tucked me in at night and always gave me her signature kiss on the forehead and wished me a good night sleep. And that was all before I got to high school and really started to need help. My mom is the best, hands down, done deal, no if's and's or but's about it. She did anything and everything for me, before I turned 18. However, even though I don't live at home anymore, I still feel she's always at my side helping me along. If I really wanted to get into great detail about how great my mom is compared to anyone else's, it would take quite a while and I do not have enough time to do that. All you need to know is that she is the greatest person I know. We butt heads a lot and have many moments where we are at each others throats, but she loves me as much as anyone could love a human being, and I am thankful for that.
Now here comes the part where I talk about my friends....
Bradley Hartong. Brad Brandenburg. Josh Gasser. Kyle Nault. Mo Kreitenberg. Tanner Strong. Christian Couch. These are the names of 7 of the greatest friends I have had the pleasure to call THE BUDS. I have met each one of these guys in a different stage in my life, and they have all cemented their spots in my life forever (whether its for good or bad reasons). These are the guys, who even 20 years from now, we will be sitting around a table talking football, girls, life, or pretty much anything you can think of. Each one of them has a unique quality or aspect about them that makes them so unique in our group of friends, which is why I feel you would struggle to find another group of guys like us. The great thing about our group is that we are exclusive to other people. We don't really ever feel territorial around other guys that we are with and feel that we have to exclude people from joining us in whatever it is we are doing. Not saying that I know anyone that does that, but I just felt it was noteworthy. All of us have been responsible for all of us branching out to different, because we spread out in a way that we go find people that we like, and bring them back to meet the rest of us and we make new friends along the way. One of these days I will go into more detail about these guys and why they make such an impact on me, but once again, I do not have enough time to get into that.
This blog is something that I hope to make a major part of my every day life. I hope that the people who read this take me seriously and do not take this as a joke.
The final piece to the puzzle is my mom. She is the one who actually inspired me to start this blog because she has one herself, that has blossomed into the hot topic among the Real Housewives of Los Alamitos (emptyhousefullmind.com). She writes about being an emptynester, which means parents who are living without their children because they are finally gone. She has really made blogging a big part in her life and she says its a great way to voice your thoughts and feelings in a safe way. My mom is my rock. She is the one who held my hand when I crossed the street when I was younger. She packed my lunches, drove me to school, picked me up, took me to practice, picked me up from practice, made dinner, tucked me in at night and always gave me her signature kiss on the forehead and wished me a good night sleep. And that was all before I got to high school and really started to need help. My mom is the best, hands down, done deal, no if's and's or but's about it. She did anything and everything for me, before I turned 18. However, even though I don't live at home anymore, I still feel she's always at my side helping me along. If I really wanted to get into great detail about how great my mom is compared to anyone else's, it would take quite a while and I do not have enough time to do that. All you need to know is that she is the greatest person I know. We butt heads a lot and have many moments where we are at each others throats, but she loves me as much as anyone could love a human being, and I am thankful for that.
