There are a lot of things in our lives that we cling to emotionally.  There are things in our society that we find important enough to have a general expectation of remembrance for.  Most of these things are important events.  The date of our wedding.  Our birthdays.  Graduation dates.  The date of a significant religious conversion or ceremony.

Then there are those dates that are significant to us personally that mean absolutely nothing to anybody else in our society or even the world. Read the rest of this entry »

As I woke up yesterday morning I was greeted to a loving wife who looked at me and said, “I’ll get her, you sleep in.  It’s Father’s Day.”  I had completely forgotten the occasion and was too tired (as I always am) to argue.  I gratefully rolled over and slept for another few hours while Katie took care of Paisley and let me sleep.

Katie made me a beautiful Father’s Day card from Paisley that was adorable.  I never could decide what I wanted for Father’s Day (seeing how the iPhone 3G doesn’t come out until July 11th).  Read the rest of this entry »

A relative of mine posted this and thought all of her family had already done it, so I suppose I can’t let her down eh? Here goes nothing.

10 years ago I… was a freshman at Hurricane Middle School and I listened primarily to Backstreet Boys. I was uber geeky, spiritual, and the overall goody-goody. Life consisted of homework, wishing I wasn’t harassed so much at school, and my family. Man I wish life was still that easy today. Read the rest of this entry »

Paisley just wanted to say hi really quickly :)

Somedays you feel like you get nothing done no matter how hard you try.  I’ve had way too many of those lately.  Today was “one of those days” - in a good way.

Things I accomplished today (with help of the extended family while helping them on their projects as well):

• Weeded the entire lot (again)
• Cleared the house of pigeon residents
• Changed all the burned out light bulbs throughout the vaulted ceilings
• Helped paint several walls at a condo in Mesa
• Found several great deals at the Scrapbooks, Etc. store in Mesa
• Removed a stupid ad ware / spy ware piece of garbage from extended family’s computer (I hate Windows) while they changed my oil and filter ;)
• Woke up at 8 am on a Saturday, which is probably why I’m so exhausted at 7:45 pm

Anyway, I’ll try to blog about more important things some other time, but I did want to get this down so when I’m having “one of those days” in a bad way I can remember there are some days when so much more gets done than one could ever anticipate.