another year closes and opens

amazing how the wheel of life keeps coming around and around.  As I approach the end of my 28th eary and my 29th looms ever closer I look and try to imagine what will come of this year.

 

I hope more happyness as I take steps to sort out my past and my feelings of them

I hope better fitness as I ever strive to improve myself (and work is looking to reward those who do)

I hope a more enjoyable work environment as a thorn has been plucked from my workplace

I am sure of more smiles and laughter as my new daughter grows and learns

I am sure of more pride as my oldest daughter grows and learns in her homeschool classroom

I am sure of more mischief and happyness as my princess (2nd born) gets into trouble but wiles her way out of it.

And finally but not least by any means

I look forward to loving my wife I am able to love myself more and I can appreciate her more everyday

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we lost our furnace this week, so seeing it running was amazing!

Checking in

hello blog,

It's been a while since we chatted.  I apologize, it seems life has gotten hectic and other things have taken priority.  I have been trying to slow down and really live in the moment and not over analyze things or worry about the future too much.  It feel like for the most part this has left me happier than average, but the last couple days have been rough.  I haven't gotten much rest and when that happens my outlook on life diminishes very quickly.  Add on top of that the fact that our furnace has broken and our landlord, while he is taking care of it, is really dropping the ball on a few key decisions and it looks like we may be without heat for the whole weekend (on top of the 3 days prior to that too).  Just seems like if it were HIS family he would really be pushing the HVAC guys and not just resigned to a monday service call.  Also, wifey's OB is being a real thorn in my side about the bill they submitted incorrectly.  They are refusing to admit they made a mistake even though the insurance company has contacted them and the hospital 3 times to get them to rectify it.  I'm just feeling very tired and very cold and very defeated.  It would be nice to feel like I had a friend that was there for me.

New Feature: 52.11

As part of my 30/30 list, I wanted to do a weekly blog feature so here is the first installment of my weekly photo. I will try to make it arty or do something that encourages me to grow as a photographer.

weekly feature upcoming!

I am looking over my 30/30 list and saw that I wanted to try a wekly blog feature.  I've been mulling it over in my head and to what I can do and then while I was cruising my facebook feed a friend's picutre came by.  She is doing a 365 project where she takes (amazing) picutres everyday.  I don't know that I have the time to take a picture everyday, but surely I can manage one a week.  I plan to start it with the new year so be on the lookout!