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no matter where you’re at…
I will say I do enjoy being busy better than being bored, but things seem to be nonstop right now with us. I daresay we are the busiest we’ve been since we’ve been married and sometimes I wonder if this will stop!
Lately my conversations with the G-Unit (Greg, for those of you unfamiliar with his nickname) have been like business conferences. We had a budget meeting Monday night regarding what to anticipate the next 2 months. Tuesday night we had a design meeting regarding our new house. Tonight we have a final house walk-through with our realtor before we anticipate our closing tomorrow afternoon (it got moved up a day)! Wow. Saturday is paint day. Next Saturday is move in day, and then it’s nearly Thanksgiving! The weeks are whizzing by, but I’m glad as it’s given me something else to concentrate on besides what seems obvious.
When can I be footloose and fancy free again? Yesterday I sort of felt like that, driving around during the middle of a sunny Veteran’s day (thank you, older bro) grabbing an iced coffee in my car.
So, to finalize this…whatever stage you’re at in life, enjoy it, because based on my experiences, pretty soon it’ll all change before you know it!
New Beginnings…
“Every new beginning comes from some beginning’s end” — Seneca
A baby is due April 29, 2009!
Thus the end of just me amp; Greg…now the beginning of a new family! Our lives will never be the same!
…when the inspiration strikes
There aren’t too many feelings that can compete with the feeling of being alive. Several different experiences for me achieve this effect: laughing so hard you can barely breathe, seeing an old friend after quite some time, saying goodbye to dear ones who you’ll miss dearly, or those moments of *clarity* that are so seldom experienced, but cherished one by one.
I went on an inaugural run this afternoon. I say “inaugural” because I hadn’t really been running since the beginning of April, and this is the first run I’ve been on since I finally finished my graduate program. Plus, summer’s arrived in Florida, and running in the summer in Florida can be a challenge, to put it lightly.
However, whatever it was, the stars were aligned, perhaps, even though covered up by cloudy skies, and the temps were right, and my iPod somehow streamed this amazing conglomeration of melancholic songs that tugged at my soul, if you will. Two talented and kindred spirits of mine have been encouraging me as of late to start my own blog or to at least resume writing, and it was as if this afternoon I decided now was the time. And when you feel like you gotta write, you gotta write. I know these moments of clarity and inspiration only come ever so often so I must take advantage of it while I feel it.
So, the direction of this blog is undecided, but I suppose over time we’ll see where my mind and my inspiration take us.
But let me just share with you the songs on my iPod first (it was set at shuffle):
- Sunshine – Keane
- Something’s Missing – John Mayer
- Careful – Guster
- Belief – Gavin DeGraw
- Blue Eyes – Cary Brothers
- [...] in the Wind – Badly Drawn Boy
- Seems So Heavy – Sloan
A good mix, if you ask me. “Belief” by Gavin DeGraw is one of my favorites of his, and the lyrics get to me.
I’m going to yell it from the rooftops
I’ll wear a sign on my chest
That’s the least I can do
Tonight, you arrested my mind
When you came to my defense
With a knife
In the shape of your mouth
In the form of your body
With the wrath of a god
Oh, you stood by me
Tonight, you arrested my mind
When you came to my defense
With a knife
In the shape of your mouth
In the form of your body
With the wrath of a god
Oh, you stood by me
And I’ll stand by my
Belief
There’s a few things I believe in wholeheartedly (the Bible, coffee and cream, and little kittens)…there’s probably even less people who’ll stand by you wholeheartedly. So when I think of this song, I think of Greg…who is unwaveringly there for me, “no matter what.”
Thus, here’s to moments of clarity, knowing where you stand, and knowing who stands by you. Enjoy.
