i was just sitting here thinking about how wonderful my family is.
I’ve always liked how watches look on other people’s wrists.
i can’t pull them off, though. i’ve tried on lots of different styles, shapes, colors, sizes and nothing looks good on my puny little wrists.
i’m not sure why i got stuck with puny little wrists, but i did.
i think big and chunky watches look the coolest – but these, of course, look massive on me.
i only wear a watch to run. i like to be able to see my progress (or lack of).
maybe i should get one that hangs from a carabiner on my belt loop?
we sold the tin bean.
chuck is loading it up this morning to bring to ABQ . . . it’s sad in a way.
in another way, it’s great to be rid of it.
it was a bit of a headache just thinking about it . . . and chuck was forever working on it – something about the cold, cold weather out here.
now that this phase of our life is complete, it’s time to find another.
i’ll let you know what that phase is, once it’s been found.
So Bill finished getting my cross country skis put together and I think I’m ready to get out there for a little ski.
I’m going to be playing volleyball this evening, though and I don’t want to be too tired for that, either.
Maybe just a little ski . . . nothing too long, just to get my feet wet, as it were.
Here I go, wish me luck.
i was thinking this morning about jobs and lives.
you know, it’s amazing to see so many cars on the road at all times. everyone with a place to go.
wow. and this is in just one city, on one road. imagine that this is happening everywhere in gallup – on every road.
imagine that this is happening (people driving somewhere) everywhere in new mexico.
everywhere in the u.s.a.
everywhere on the continent.
everywhere in the world.
it’s crazy . . . we’re all going somewhere. we’re all doing something.
we all have lives.
and yet, we’re all stuck in our own lives. so often, we just stick with our routine.
we drive to work, we work, we drive home, we sleep . . . we eat in between, etc. but we sort of stick to the same old stuff.
i’m not sure if this is necessarily a bad thing. it’s just what we do.
anyway, something to think about today.
peace out
i haven’t written for months . . . and for that, i apologize.
i could trot out some tired excuse, but i’ve been lazy – i dont’ think that counts for a tired excuse, right?
all is going well over at the magazine. we’re trying to do some expansion, which isn’t going as smoothly as one might hope. but we’re hanging in there. we’ll find out on monday (i hope) if we can move forward . . . cryptic, eh?
we have some other potential jobs in the works, too – which would be huge for us; we’ve just got to make them happen.
we live in a really gorgeous place. i’m looking out the kitchen window at the hogback behind our home and wondering why i don’t hike up there more often. acutally, i haven’t even hiked up it since we moved in.
how does that happen?
oh yeah, i get super-lazy.
i’d rather read a book or watch “how i met your mother”.
hmm, and now it’s so snowy i’d probably slide right off the edge once i got up there.
no matter, i’m working on a new plan to exercise more often (which starts today). i have some old x-country skis in the garage and today we’re heading to ABQ after church to get some bindings and boots to slap on those old (and i mean old) skis. i’ve been hearing the forest has three or four feet of perfect skiing snow . . . i need that.
hopefully it will be really fun.
anyway, enough of this ramble-fest . . . it’s time for some coffee and a shower.
peace out homies
two things in life (outside of family and friends – which would make it four . . .) really depress me.
#1 – house problems.
this one is rough, because i don’t know how to fix many things at my house. it’s getting better – big ez has been helping – but still, having a messed up water line or an electrical problem give me fits. i get annoyed at life in general in both of those circumstances.
#2 – car trouble.
i know even less about cars than i do about houses (thanks to the big ez). so when something goes wrong with my car, i have to bring it in to have someone else figure it out. if you’re like me, this situation sucks. even if you trust your mechanic – which i do – its still a terrible situation.
obviously, in the grand scheme of things, these are small potatoes. but they are still a part of life that has to be lived.
it’s crazy how often i take things for granted . . . how about you?
today is one of the most exciting days of my whole year. i’m not sure how to describe the feeling i get when i can watch great college basketball games all day. all i can tell you is that i love it. i get tingles before the first set of games.
i know, i’m kind of lame.
i finished a great book last night.
it was different . . . but great – it’s called the ‘time traveler’s wife’.
there was one spot in particular that really made me think. i’m about to give away a portion of the ending (kind of), so if you want to be completely surprised, stop reading right NOW!
the lead character knew the day and time of his death and was saying his goodbyes. the main character wasn’t sick in any way. he had some problems, but he wasn’t just hanging on or anything. he was healthy by all accounts. i realized what a blessing it would be to be able to say goodbye in the best of times instead of the worst of times.
i also realized how important it is to live each day as fully as possible.
it’s life and it’s great.
it’s not worth just slouching through life and slogging it out. i need to live it up. tell my wife and kids and family that i love them. to be positive and live with integrity. to no worry about appearances, but to stand up for what i believe in.
life is just too short to compromise all the time.
so i’m just going to live it the way i think i’m supposed to.
the other day our car broke down.
i realized a few things very, very quickly:
#1 – community is important.
we had two people stop to help us on I-40 and half a dozen more texted or called to make sure we were okay. all of these people saw our car . . . not us. isn’t it crazy how we can be associated with something?
#2 – i know nothing about cars.
i didn’t grow up working on cars, i don’t plan to ever learn anything past how to change my own oil and how to fill up the gas tank.
#3 – i love my family.
i certainly didn’t like being stranded (even if it was only momentarily) on the side of a busy road. i like it even less when my family is with me. i want the safe at all times. now, i realize that i can’t keep everyone safe – that i have to trust them to make good decisions – but it’s hard. here, i am mostly speaking about my children, not my wife. i love her a lot, but i already trust her decisions!
here’s where the rubber meets the road . . .
it would have been easy to get down when smoke billowed out from under our hood. or when the temperature gauge continued to rise. or when we were stopped on the shoulder. or when we were getting honked at because we were going 55 in the right lane (not advisable).
but we didn’t. our friends got there too quickly. we forgot all about our car for hours. we just basked in the warm glow of friendships and community.
it was a great day.
