Posts Tagged ‘friends’

Location Sharing is a hot topic amongst mobile enthusiasts and social networking fiends. With new and improving services like FourSquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and Latitude, there are a lot of options.
Each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses from the Checkin-centric services like FourSquare and Gowalla, to the real-time location based services like Latitude, and [...]

Having a White Christmas in Texas is a mixed bag of good and bad. It's good for all the obvious reasons (snow! Christmas! etc!) but bad because, in Texas, snow doesn't just mean snow. It means ice, bad drivers, accidents, road closures, and travel delays and cancellations.
Christmas Eve, Celeste and I didn't quite make it [...]

I've managed to take one item off the list of possible Christmas plans and yet I've added another. So here it is, Christmas Eve, and I'm still making up my mind. Yeah, everything works out this way for me. It's a curse.
I'm not going to my brothers. That amounted to the most work for the [...]

This morning, I am just blah. I feel like I'm not doing enough or being enough of anything. Despite having more of it, I feel like my time with Celeste is more rushed and less interesting. I feel the same for what little time I have for myself. I have so much I want to [...]

(I recently wrote these words to a friend going through some hard times in her marriage. I cried when I wrote them. I'm crying now rereading them. I figure they are worth sharing.)
Marriage is hard. Really hard. And children make it harder.
But, then again children are hard too.
I think anything worth keeping requires some work. [...]

I always so actively share the bad, the negative, and the difficult aspects of my life, that I probably leave the impression that there is no goodness or happiness to be found here. This could not be farther from the truth.
I don't think I've ever had a perfectly good or a perfectly bad anything. There's [...]

1) As a friend pointed out today, life is a journey, not a destination. The potholes along the way are unimportant, and where we end up when we finally stop matters the least of all. What does matter is how we get there, and what we learn along the way. There's a quotation supposedly in [...]

(again I leave myself only 13 minutes to write.)
Somtimes I feel a deep, inner searching that leaves me feeling melancholy and alone. This has been the case lately. The most often used "solution" (though it rarely if ever works) is to intentionally occupy my mind with other thoughts and distractions. This often leads to me [...]

Sometimes I have to go back and read my last entry just to remember where I left off. I have more to say than I have time to write. That's probably for the best.
Friday
So, as I mentioned last time, Friday was filled with swimming at the lake, Fireworks, and good friends.

Saturday
Saturday morning we went to [...]

You might be surprised at how many times I've sat down to write as I am now, and the first things I've typed have said something to indicate that I had no idea what I was going to write and I hoped that, in the end, it was at least a little interesting for you, [...]