My friend’s eagle eye caught this last night as we sauntered through my neighborhood. No idea what they were going for…
July 18, 2008
if you said my last name with a stutter?
July 2, 2008
case of the crazies leads to… ?
Things have been crazy busy, and crazy in life… as you could probably tell.
So busy recently in fact I’ve had to resort to wash ‘n’ fold laundry service for the first time. 22 bucks for someone else to do 2 loads of my laundry?!?!? Holy shite. I need a girlfriend. Oh wait, those are waaay more expensive. 
So what the hell has been going on? My last (crysis) blog post has my friends calling me ‘emo.’ Hah! I’m not emo, I’m just embracing my dark side.
In May I went through some pretty dark and difficult times. I was not myself at all. Some of you know, some don’t, I’ll leave it at that. I got out of this all by basically turning my life upside down and inside out for an entire month. All the normal stuff I would do I didn’t feel like doing anyway. I just listened to and bought new music, did some reading, hung out with close friends, left dating on the shelf for a while longer, went back to therapy, and replaced several addictions with my new addiction – yoga.
A big part of this credit goes to Kate, who when I was at the end of said difficult time, told me to go with her to yoga class. This bhakti flow class was incredible, i was drenched in sweat, and the teacher Andrea was amazing. Her mellifluous voice both talking and chanting was that of an angel. It became Sunday morning church. I was so incredibly focused I was kind of shocking myself. I had better balance on one foot than a lot of other people around me, and did really well considering my lack of experience and my current state. At several points I found myself fighting back tears, but I guess that’s what the kleenex boxes are there for. Two weeks later I told Andrea it was a life changing experience for me.
I had tried yoga maybe 3 times in my life before, but I was kind of resistant to the idea of it, the hippie vibe, exposing your workout and your body in such close quarters… the whole thing. But my heart and mind was needing something new, something profound. I’ve been going ever since. After 1 and a half months there’s such a huge difference in myself physically and emotionally.
Don’t get me wrong though… I’m not walking around flaunting my yoga mat, and NOT becoming a hippie.
In June I went home to host my parents 40th wedding anniversary with my sister. Things went really well, everyone had a great time, and it made me thankful to have my family and old family friends all there and healthy. My mom told me the day before she’d never had a party thrown for her, and if there’s one person who deserves a party it’s my mom.
At work, things are good but crazy busy also. The last few weeks I had to overhaul our company network (140 people, over 300 network devices) pretty much single-handedly. This past weekend was the big changeover. I’m exhausted. I’m not complainin, I like a challenge, and as I told a friend, I like to be the hero sometimes.
Socially things have been a lot better than in the past few years as well. Lately even on nights when I have nothing going on, or have someone flake on me, I’ve had someone else pop up and be like, “wanna grab dinner?” That’s really all I ever wanted.
On getting old… heh. I went to the doctor yesterday. Long story short, I need to lose 10 (more) pounds and get my blood pressure down. But I don’t have to stop drinking to do this. $1000 in insurance money and 3 trips in for various tests to find out this valuable information I already knew. Thanks doc.
All in all, considering the things I’ve seen going on in the world around me, things are looking up.