Today is a good day. No, today is a great day!

UNC beat dook last night and today, I was accepted to grad school at UNC.

Today is a really, really good day!

As crazy as the next two years are going to be, I am beyond excited. I literally can not put into words how excited I am. I called my wife in tears.

I grew up near Chapel Hill and was on campus a lot. I mean, A LOT.

And today, one of my dreams came true!

Today is a good day.

I never thought that I was good enough to goto UNC. I never thought that I was smart enough. I never thought I could attend UNC. But today, I can say that I was wrong.

Today, I am a Tar Heel. And today, is a really good day.

January is over and time to focus on February and wanted to highlight a few things from the first month of the new year.

For starters, I survived, no I freaking owned Dry January! Myself and two of my buddies took on dry January and were all successful. I was able to lose 12.5 pounds and also slept better than I had in a long time.

So am I happy that January is over? Yes, because I can have a beer or glass of wine and not feel like I am cheating myself. No, because I really challenged myself to do something that was out of my norm and to learn something new about myself.

But that wasn’t the only reason that I’m glad that January is over, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of my Mother In Law’s death. This year, was a little tough. 10 Years. A full decade. Over 10,000 days. That is a long time, yet it feels like yesterday.

January is a hard month, if for no other reason than the loss of my wife’s mother, but it was compounded with trying to break and change bad habits too. In the end, I came out more aware and more focused on what I needed to do and I came out a better person.