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Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! Yep, today marks the beginning of the calendar for the Chinese. And this year, it’s the “Year of the Tiger”. While in Hong Kong, I found out that I was born in the “Year of the Monkey”…. a bunch of VJ-type people were around at the moment, and we joked that it was the “Year of the Spacebar Monkey”. How fitting.

Today is also Nate & Shelly Griffin’s 1st Wedding Anniversary! This time last year, we were in one of the most beautiful chapels ever on St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, experiencing one of the most sacred days of my best friend & business partner’s life. Shelly is truly one of a kind…and she knows more Bible than Nate & I combined times a hundred.

And four years ago to the day, I walked up to the Tennessee Secretary of State’s office and filed that fateful S-Corp form. Grateful Inconvenience, Inc. (gi, inc., as we called it) officially became a company!

Through the years, February 14th has been an epic day in the life of “GI”. In 2007, just a year after starting the new company, I stepped off a plane after having spent five weeks in Papua New Guinea…a trip that would be the start of many journeys into strange new lands. Nate had lived there for two years before moving to Nashville. And that following summer, we both returned to produce our first short film “Changed”.

In 2008, February 14th lasted two days for Nate & me…for we were flying back across the Int’l Date Line after having gone on our first trip to Thailand. Pretty cool to have just gotten off a plane from the same place just two years later.

And I feel like there’s something else going on today….. hmmmm…. I don’t know. Maybe it’s just my imagination.