Dad and Phyllis
Katie and Dana at Big John's
Dana, Seth, Cory, Luke
Dena
Trecie's parents Michelle and Wil
Happy Birthday, USA!
From Batman to Robin
(Note: None of the superhero clothes
has ever been Jerry's idea!)
Drew (and Minnesota) in a nutshell
One last happy hug!
Jake, Christian, Trecie, Tiffany, Rover, and some of my in-laws / possible future neighbors Teri, Betty, Rocky, Pete, LeAnne, Jake all made appearances too!
Overall, it was a nice vacation!
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Items on my mind that I want to mention but sort-of bury in the fine print:
[photo of Betty Lou to come]
1. Eight years ago today, my dear mother passed away due to stomach cancer. With cancer deaths rampant on both my father's side (Uncle Bill) and my mother's side (Grandpa Raymond, as well as Uncle Don who just died two months ago from brain cancer), a person like me should take much better care of himself... but I just can't get my act together like I want. It's hard!
[photo of dead Geo Prizm to come]
2. Ten years ago this month was my closest brush with death. Late one Friday night, I was driving home from downtown Indianapolis when a semi-truck ran a red light and rammed into me, basically cutting off the back half of my first Geo Prizm. If I had been driving a half-second slower or he had been driving a half-second faster, I'd be dead, no doubt about it.
Have I made the most of the ten extra years of life I've had since that night? What have I accomplished besides helping to create the perfect boy? I still drive basically the same car (a 1997 model rather than a 1995 one) and am basically doing the same tedious job I was doing then; for a different employer, but even so, I've been doing it for 12 years now.
3. No matter how much I resist, change in my life is long overdue. So I should take my current unexpected situation and make the best out of it, right? I might not have another ten years left, or even one.... nobody knows. More than anything, I just want to stop wasting time... I've already wasted the past six weeks of solitude... I want the next six weeks to be my most productive ever!
1 comment:
1) My hair looks like it's about to burst into flame!!
2) Wow...the "fine print" is profound. Sort of the same stuff I've been kicking around the past few days/weeks/months. I saw a greeting card awhile back that said "Life's too short to dance with ugly men" and I'm trying to adapt and adopt that as my new life motto!
I know where MY heart is...and it's not in the middle of Cornfield, IL. Maybe it's not so important that no one understands what motivates me to do what I'm being motivated to do (did that make sense?)
Maybe we should band together and encourage one another to take a deep breath and step out into the middle of the changes that we've been resisting. Whaddya think? :-)
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