I hurt all over...

I joined a local gym closer to home this week and worked with a personal trainer for the last three days. Every muscle in my body hurts (even my brain because of all the homework from school :-)). We have a dog-gate blocking access to the bedroom which we use to keep Molly pinned up when we need to and stepping over it tonight was painful. But I know in the long run I will feel better and be in much better health overall.

The long days are starting to catch up with us. Joy has to be at work at 6am (we get up at 4:30am) and is working 10 hours a day, then has two classes at High Point University each night during the week and does not get home until after 10pm. Jessica doesn't get home from school now until 5:30pm and has Drivers Ed two nights a week which gets her home after 7:30pm.

My schedule is not quite as bad, but I am taking six hard classes this semester and I have to do a lot of the chores around the house (doing laundry now), so we are all really busy.

I cracked my butt...

Wednesday morning I went out to bring in the trash cans from the curb. I stepped a little farther out onto the top step (going down from the front porch) and it was still wet from the night's dew, so my foot shot straight out. I landed hard on my behind (got a nice bruise but I'll refrain from posting a picture).

I don't think I broke anything, but damn it hurt. Still does. Nice and sore I is.

Hey, I said I'd post more often but I never said it would be fun to read. :-)

Congraduations...

Congraduations (congratulations + graduation) to Joy for getting her Associate of Arts Degree from R.C.C. Her diploma arrived in the mail last week and we couldn't be more proud of her! Way to go dear! She starts classes at HPU next week.

Sorry for the delay...

I know it's been a while since I've updated and I know I said I would update more, but it has been a very busy few weeks. First, we've moved. For those that need to know where to, you already do. :-)

Secondly, school has started back and since all three of us are in college now, everyone is covered up with work, homework, and chores. I know it's not really a good excuse, but it's all I have.

I WILL update more often. I promise! ;-)

Responsibilities suck...

We do not watch a lot of television. Some sports, educational shows, and a few sitcoms from time to time, but usually it stays turned off. Oh and cartoons :-)

Earlier this summer there was a show we ran across called The Alaksa Experiment, where four groups of people were dropped off in remote areas in Alaska for three months to fend for themselves. The show tracked their progress (good and bad) and showed how hard surviving in the Alaskan wilderness could be.

That was something I have always wanted to do. Just be dropped off and left alone in the Alaskan wilderness in the fall/winter and made to survive on the land. I think it would be a life altering experience. So, after finding out about the show I went to the Discovery Channel website to get more information on the series (next showing, times, etc.) and they had a link for expressing interest in being on the show next year. So I filled out the sheet and sent it in.

Well guess what. We were selected to audition for the show! Yeah! I can't wait! What? I have work and school and a family and...resposibilities. DAMN! Damn, damn, damn.

So, of course, I'll not respond. I'll stay home and be responsible, again.

The first college graduate in the family...

My wife is in the process of taking her last course needed for graduation from college. By the end of August she will be the first college grad in her entire family. It has taken a few years, but she's worked full time and raised a family at the same time. We couldn't be more proud of her!
I'm planning to try to do something a little special for her but since she tends to check this blog from time to time I can't really say what that might be. :-) If anyone has any ideas, feel free to share them.

Huston, we have a problem...

Last Thursday, at about 5:45 pm EST, my youngest daughter Jessica got into a small single engine plain with a friend and classmate of mine named Josh. As my wife and I watched them taxi to the runway, we could see Jessica sitting in the front passenger seat, her face filled with excitement and anticipation. Roughly an hour later they landed and we waited patiently for them to return to the parking lot. She had an experience she will never forget and her cheeks must have hurt from the smile she wore well into the evening.
What is the problem you ask? Ah, yes... the problem. Well the problem is that now she wants more. She's extremely bright (all our kids are) and interested in becoming an astronaut (or at the very least working for NASA as a researcher/astronomer), so this simply fueled that dream. That was the point of course, but she wants to try to get her pilot's license and that takes money. Lots of money.