For the last year or two Jenn has been on a mission. That mission, for us to purchase our first home. After renting for the first 5 years of our marriage she was ready to settle down. Me on the other hand I could have stayed at our current apartment indefinitely. Eventually Jenn got me to come around and we began the journey. 

"I'll see you in another life brotha." Remember the good old days of Lost? Remember when we wondered who the Others were? And why did they ever have to go back to the island? Well from one of the creators of Lost comes the new HBO series The Leftovers. One of the few remaining TV series that I wanted to check out, we recently finished watching the ten episode first season, and boy was it dark and depressing.

Every year I sit down and write out my goals for the upcoming year. You've probably heard it a 1000 times but New Years resolutions never stick. I like to think that my goals are slightly different. My goals for 2015 aren't arbitrary, there tangible, measurable goals. I guess since I develop performance goals for a living I should be able to make goals for myself right? So here we go. Here are my goals for 2015.

I've been looking forward to writing this look back on 2014 since I finished typing up the 2013 year in review. Writing this post is one of my favorite things to do every year. It's an opportunity to look back on the last 365 days and recount the many blessings that have been bestowed on Jenn and I. And boy were they plentiful in 2014. It's hard to even know where to start. So lets begin where any good story begins, at the beginning.

Welcome to the 4th Annual "Our Favorite Things." Today its all about Jenn and I's favorite things from the past year.  If you want to go back and read past years posts here are the links (2011, 2012, & 2013). So without any more introduction here are Jenn and my favorite things from 2014!

As I've posted several times on the blog I love to listen to both podcast and audiobooks. A couple of months back my DarkCast compatriot Jonathan recommended a podcast called Serial. It's put on by the same people that do This American Life. It's a twelve episode podcast series hosted by Sarah Koenig who looks into the real-life 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee who was in High School. A couple of months after her murder, her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was convicted of her murder with only one of his friends (Jay) testimony as evidence.